Prostitution by adults is not a crime in Peru, and paying an adult for sex is not an offence unless the person is a victim of sexual exploitation, which carries 9 to 12 years for the client. Law 30963 of June 2019 rewrote the third-party offences: promoting or favouring the prostitution of another person (4 to 6 years), managing the economic or other benefit of another's prostitution (4 to 8 years) and directing or managing another's prostitution (4 to 6 years), each rising to 6 to 12 years where committed in tourism, through a legal person or in the context of any economic activity. Despite these offences, press reports describe brothels holding municipal operating licences, while some municipalities have ordinances banning the activity. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/peru/, reviewed 2026-11-04, CC BY 4.0.