Prostitution laws in GuineaGuinée
Guinea's Penal Code (Law No. L/2016/059/AN of 26 October 2016) does not punish selling or buying sex between adults; a legal consultant interviewed in 2025 confirmed that individual prostitution is not an offence. Procuring, defined as favouring or profiting from another person's prostitution, carries two to five years and a fine of 2 to 10 million Guinean francs (Article 347), seven years for aggravated forms (Article 348) and seven to ten years in an organised gang (Article 349). Running or financing a prostitution establishment, tolerating prostitution in a place open to the public, or knowingly providing premises or vehicles for prostitution carries five to ten years (Article 351). No specific soliciting or advertising offence was found.
Legal model
Legal, organisation banned. Selling and buying are legal, but brothels, procuring and organising are criminal offences.
Selling and buying sex between adults are not offences under the 2016 Penal Code, and no soliciting offence aimed at sex workers was found. Procuring in all its forms, running a prostitution establishment and knowingly providing premises or vehicles for prostitution are criminalised (Articles 346 to 352), which matches the abolitionist model.[1][2]
At a glance
| Question | Status | In short |
|---|---|---|
| Selling sexual services | Legal | The Penal Code contains no offence of selling sex and no soliciting offence for the person selling. Public sexual acts can fall under the general offence of public indecency (Articles 275 and 276: three months to two years and a fine of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Guinean francs).[1][2] |
| Buying sexual services | Legal | No offence of buying sex from an adult was found in the Penal Code; a legal consultant interviewed by Guinee7 in 2025 described paying for sex as unpunished.[1][2] |
| Brothels and managed venues | Illegal Criminal offence | Holding, managing, running or financing a prostitution establishment; habitually accepting or tolerating prostitution or the seeking of clients in any establishment open to the public; or knowingly selling or providing private premises or vehicles of any kind to people who will use them for prostitution carries five to ten years and a fine of 10 to 50 million Guinean francs (Article 351). Attempt is punishable (Article 352).[1] |
| Third parties profiting (procuring / pimping) | Illegal Criminal offence | A procurer is anyone who aids, assists or protects another's prostitution or soliciting, shares its proceeds or receives support from a person habitually engaged in it, lives with such a person without justifying their own resources, recruits or keeps even a consenting adult for prostitution, or acts as an intermediary: two to five years and 2 to 10 million Guinean francs (Article 347).[1] |
| Advertising sexual services | Restricted Breach: criminal offence | No offence specific to advertising sexual services was found. Advertising one's own services is not identified as an offence, but a third party who knowingly aids, assists or protects another person's prostitution or soliciting commits procuring (Article 347(1)), which can cover publishing ads for others.[1] |
The law in detail
Selling sexual services
The Penal Code contains no offence of selling sex and no soliciting offence for the person selling. Public sexual acts can fall under the general offence of public indecency (Articles 275 and 276: three months to two years and a fine of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Guinean francs).[1][2]
Confidence: medium. Read in a transcription of the 2016 Code; whether later amendments touched these articles was not checked.
Checked 30 October 2026
Buying sexual services
No offence of buying sex from an adult was found in the Penal Code; a legal consultant interviewed by Guinee7 in 2025 described paying for sex as unpunished.[1][2]
Confidence: medium. Read in a transcription of the 2016 Code; later amendments were not checked.
Checked 30 October 2026
Brothels and managed venues
Holding, managing, running or financing a prostitution establishment; habitually accepting or tolerating prostitution or the seeking of clients in any establishment open to the public; or knowingly selling or providing private premises or vehicles of any kind to people who will use them for prostitution carries five to ten years and a fine of 10 to 50 million Guinean francs (Article 351). Attempt is punishable (Article 352).[1]
Note. The premises limb can catch a landlord who knowingly rents a flat to a sex worker.
Checked 30 October 2026
Third parties profiting (procuring / pimping)
A procurer is anyone who aids, assists or protects another's prostitution or soliciting, shares its proceeds or receives support from a person habitually engaged in it, lives with such a person without justifying their own resources, recruits or keeps even a consenting adult for prostitution, or acts as an intermediary: two to five years and 2 to 10 million Guinean francs (Article 347).[1]
Aggravating circumstances (a minor, coercion, a weapon, a person with authority over the victim, an official involved in fighting prostitution) raise the penalty to seven years and 15 million francs (Article 348); an organised gang to seven to ten years (Article 349); torture or barbaric acts to ten to twenty years of criminal imprisonment (Article 350).
Checked 30 October 2026
Advertising sexual services
No offence specific to advertising sexual services was found. Advertising one's own services is not identified as an offence, but a third party who knowingly aids, assists or protects another person's prostitution or soliciting commits procuring (Article 347(1)), which can cover publishing ads for others.[1]
Confidence: low. This is a reading of the statutory text; no case or guidance on advertising or websites was found.
Checked 30 October 2026
Key legislation
| Law | What it does here | In force |
|---|---|---|
| Loi L/2016/059/AN du 26 octobre 2016 portant Code pénal Penal Code (Law No. L/2016/059/AN of 26 October 2016) art. 346–352 | Section VII (Articles 346 to 352) criminalises procuring, prostitution establishments and the provision of premises or vehicles for prostitution.[1] | 2016 |
Timeline
- 26 October 2016Law No. L/2016/059/AN adopts a new Penal Code, with procuring and brothel offences in Articles 346 to 352.[1]
Sources
- Loi L/2016/059/AN du 26 octobre 2016 portant Code pénal (Law L/2016/059/AN of 26 October 2016 on the Penal Code). Droit guinéen (full-text transcription), 26 October 2016. legislation · accessed 30 October 2026
- Prostitution, proxénétisme, tenue vestimentaire : ce que disent les lois guinéennes (Prostitution, procuring, dress: what Guinean law says). Guinee7.com, 5 May 2025. news · accessed 30 October 2026