Talk:Sex tourism in Costa Rica

Prostitution is not legal in Costa Rica
This issue has arise several times in the main Costa Rica article, but the fact is that prostitution is not illegal in CRI, quite a different thing of being legal (ask your lawyer for the difference, the same as guilty and not guilty!), nor it is a regulated activity. According to the country's legal framework citizens can do anything they want except if it is forbidden or declared a crime by a law. So, if someone wants to continue editing that prostitution is legal, please provide the reference to the legal code that says so, and not blogs or NGO sites that wrongly state it is legal. The laws in Costa Rica do considered a crime several activities normally related to prostitution, such as pimping.--Mariordo (talk) 01:13, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Prostitution is "Legal" in Costa Rica, by most commonly accepted definitions of the word "Legal." You are correct in stating that there is no "reference to the legal code that says" that prostitution is legal. There is also no legal code that says that it is legal to listen to Barry Manilow songs, or to speak German, or to wear a brown shirt in public. MOST of the things that we do are legal because they have not been made illegal by law. To say that prostitution is not legal simply because it is not illegal by law, is a bit disingenuous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.15.154.136 (talk) 11:59, 8 September 2015 (UTC)