Prostitution in Kenya is widespread.[1] The legal situation is complex. Although prostitution is not criminalised by National law, municipal by-laws may prohibit it.[2] (Nairobi banned all sex work in December 2017).[2] It is illegal to profit from the prostitution of others, and to aid, abet, compel or incite prostitution. (Sections 153 and 154 of the Penal Code).[3] UNAIDS estimate there to be 133,675 prostitutes in the country.[4]
Many foreign men and women take part in sex tourism, which is thriving at resorts along Kenya's coast. Thousands of girls and boys are involved in casual child prostitution[5] due to poverty in the region.
Sex workers report abuse, extortion and violence from the police.[3]
Japanese prostitutes (the Karayuki-san) serviced British colonialists in Kenya.[6][7]
- ^ UNAIDS (20 May 2020). "Kenyan sex workers abandoned and vulnerable during COVID-19". UNAIDS. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Nairobi County Assembly Bans Sex Work in the City". NSWP. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- ^ a b "Sexuality, Poverty and Law Programme". Institute of Development Studies. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
- ^ "Sex workers: Population size estimate - Number, 2016". www.aidsinfoonline.org. UNAIDS. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ "Child sex for a dollar on Kenya's palm-fringed beaches". Reuters. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ Elkins, Caroline (2010). Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (reprint ed.). Henry Holt and Company. p. 11. ISBN 978-1429900294.
- ^ Elkins, Caroline (2005). Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya (illustrated ed.). Jonathan Cape. p. 11. ISBN 022407363X.
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