Is prostitution legal in Hungary?
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Is it legal or illegal to work as a prostitute in Hungary? And if it is legal, where can you do it in the country? Anywhere or only in places authorities allow you to do so? We collected the answers below.
We reported HERE that a Nigerian university student raped a prostitute in Budapest. Since many of you asked the questions mentioned above, we collected the answers below.
After WWII, the Communist regime banned prostitution and closed all brothels, but unofficially it continued to flourish. In the 1980s, for example, to avoid the inspections of the authorities, prostitutes worked in massage saloons. In the 1990s, the main places where prostitutes could be found became the outskirts of the cities, truck parking places and the roads leading out of or into them.
Those days the age of sexual consent was 14, which was increased to 18 in 2007.
Those who had a sexual relationship with people under 18 could receive a prison sentence from 0 to 3 years if they gave money in return. According to Budapest’s chief of police, in 2004, there were at least 1,000 brothels in Budapest.
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Today, according to the law, local authorities have the power to mark zones for legal prostitution if there is a profound local need. Soliciting is allowed within the so-called tolerance zones. However, most of them have yet refused to designate them because when they do so those living close to them protest immediately even though these zones
must be at least 300 metres away from schools, cemeteries or churches.