Is prostitution legal in Bermuda?
Decriminalized / unregulated
Selling sex is legal, but related activities like running a brothel are illegal.
Bermuda is one of 38 countries classified “Decriminalized / unregulated” for sex work — 17% of the 219 with data. (Also searched as prostitution.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Prostitution in the Americas
- Last checked
- 17 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- British Virgin Islands
- Legal & regulated Selling sex is legal, though soliciting and procuring are illegal.
- Bahamas
- Decriminalized / unregulated Selling sex is legal, but brothel keeping and solicitation are prohibited.
- Puerto Rico
- Illegal Prostitution is illegal in Puerto Rico, despite past government considerations to legalize it.
- Anguilla
- Decriminalized / unregulated Selling sex is legal, but brothel keeping and other related activities are illegal.
- Saint-Martin
- Illegal Prostitution is illegal in Saint Martin under French law, though street prostitution persists.
- Dominican Republic
- Legal & regulated Selling sex is legal, but third-party financial gain and brothels are illegal.
Other laws in Bermuda
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Civil unions
- Same-Sex Activity
- Legal
- Age of Consent
- 16–17
- Same-Sex Adoption
- Joint adoption legal
A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.