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'''Prostitution in Guatemala''' is legal but [[procuring (prostitution)|procuring]] is prohibited.<ref name="procon">{{cite web|title=100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies|url=https://prostitution.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000772#guatemala|website=Procon|accessdate=1 January 2018}}</ref> There is an offence of “aggravated procuring” where a minor is involved.<ref name="ips">{{cite web|url=http://www.ipsnews.net/2006/10/guatemala-where-sexual-exploitation-of-minors-is-not-a-crime/|title=GUATEMALA: Where Sexual Exploitation of Minors Is Not a Crime - Inter Press Service|accessdate=27 January 2017}}</ref> Keeping a [[brothel]] is not prohibited.<ref name="procon" />
 
Prostitution is widespread in Guatemala; [[UNAIDS]] estimate there to be 26,000 prostitutes in the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sex workers: Population size estimate - Number, 2016 |url=http://www.aidsinfoonline.org/gam/stock/shared/dv/PivotData_2018_7_22_636678151733621264.htm |website=www.aidsinfoonline.org |publisher=UNAIDS |accessdate=21 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604174922/http://www.aidsinfoonline.org/gam/stock/shared/dv/PivotData_2018_7_22_636678151733621264.htm |archive-date=4 June 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Guatemala City]] alone has 9 [[red-light district]]s,<ref name="wnn">{{cite web|last1=Wallace Bowman|first1=Hannah|title=Guatemala women sex-workers live in a dangerous 'twilight' world - Woman News Network (WNN)|url=https://womennewsnetwork.net/2014/03/17/guatemala-women-sex-workers-world/|website=Woman News Network (WNN)|accessdate=2 January 2018|date=17 March 2014}}</ref> including La Linea, El Trebol and Parque Concordia.<ref name="mujer">{{cite web|title=MuJER Guatemala - Our story|url=http://mujerguatemala.org/about-us/our-story/|website=MuJER Guatemala|accessdate=2 January 2018}}</ref> Statistics from the Vigilancia Centinela de las Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual (VICITS) sexual health clinics from 2007–20112007 to 2011, showed 10.8 of the sex workers worked on the streets, the rest working indoors at strip clubs, brothels based at residential homes, bars etc.<ref name="plos">{{cite journal|last1=Morales-Miranda|first1=Sonia|last2=Jacobson|first2=Jerry O.|last3=Loya-Montiel|first3=Itzel|last4=Mendizabal-Burastero|first4=Ricardo|last5=Galindo-Arandi|first5=César|last6=Flores|first6=Carlos|last7=Chen|first7=Sanny Y.|title=Scale-Up, Retention and HIV/STI Prevalence Trends among Female Sex Workers Attending VICITS Clinics in Guatemala|pmc=4148235|journal=PLoS ONE|volume=9|issue=8|pages=e103455|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0103455|pmid=25167141|date=28 August 2014|bibcode=2014PLoSO...9j3455M}}</ref>
 
[[Child sex tourism]] is a problem in the country especially in areas such as [[Antigua Guatemala|Antigua]] and [[Guatemala City]].<ref name="dw">{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.com/en/world-in-progress-forced-into-prostitution-in-guatemala/av-18993923|title=World in Progress: Forced into prostitution in Guatemala - All media content - DW.COM - 20.01.2016|accessdate=27 January 2017}}</ref>