Adult Entertainment Laws in Kazakhstan
Legal Overview
In Kazakhstan, selling and buying sex between adults are not offences in themselves. Importuning people in public places for prostitution or other sexual services is an administrative offence: a warning or a fine of 5 monthly calculation indices (MCI), and for foreigners possible expulsion. Knowingly providing premises for prostitution carries fines of 100 MCI and upwards. Organising or keeping a brothel and pimping for gain are crimes punishable by up to five years, rising to three to seven years when committed through the internet or by advertising. Since September 2024 the Criminal Code covers "other sexual services", including those provided remotely, and defines advertising of prostitution as distributing or placing information on a person, price, method or place of obtaining the services. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/kazakhstan/, reviewed 2026-10-30, CC BY 4.0.
In Practice
Advertising prostitution is not a standalone offence, but it aggravates both criminal offences: drawing a person into prostitution "by propaganda and/or advertising", and keeping a brothel or pimping by advertising (three to seven years). Advertising is defined as distributing or placing information about the person, price, method or place of obtaining sexual services, which describes the content of escort and ad sites. Directories may not list escort services here: a site that carries other people's ads can be prosecuted or fined. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/kazakhstan/, reviewed 2026-10-30, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated: 11 November 2026
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