Erotic Night Club in Timiș, Romania

Romania removed prostitution from its criminal law when the 2009 Criminal Code replaced the 1968 Code on 1 February 2014; the old Article 328 had punished people who made their living from prostitution with three months to three years. Today, soliciting people in bars, parks, streets or other public places for paid sex, or urging someone to do so, is a contravention under Law No. 61/1991, fined RON 500–1,500; venue managers who tolerate it are fined and can have the venue suspended. Buying sex from an adult is not an offence unless the buyer knows the person is a trafficking victim. Procuring ("proxenetism"), defined as inducing or facilitating prostitution or profiting from it, carries two to seven years; its aggravated paragraphs were repealed in November 2024. No specific offence of advertising sexual services was found. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/romania/, reviewed 2026-11-03, CC BY 4.0.