Prostitution Laws

Prostitution Laws provides a comprehensive, country‑by‑country reference of prostitution legislation worldwide. The site maps legal models across 196 nations, detailing whether selling, buying, brothel operation, and advertising are permitted, regulated, or prohibited. Data is regularly updated, with methodology notes and sources for each statute, offering researchers, policymakers, and the public clear insight into global sex‑work laws.

Prostitution Laws publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including data API API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Law, Data, Research, and Global.

The Prostitution Laws catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Prostitution Laws’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, and 16 more developer resources.

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25.4/100 emerging Agent 24/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract

Company Law Data Research Global

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 25.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 12.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 8 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 13.1 — up to +17.4 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Agent2Agent

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OpenAPI

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Prostitution Laws Data API

Static read‑only API providing prostitution law data for 196 countries in JSON, CSV and Markdown. No authentication required.

Prostitution Laws data API API

Static, read-only files: no key, no sign-up, no rate plan; `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`. Regenerated on every release of the site.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Prostitutionlaws Context

5 classes · 31 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Prostitution Laws API Rules

50 rules · 48 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AllCountries

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CountryDocument

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IndexDocument

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Prostitutionlaws Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

llms.txt

MCP

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Conformance

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

AgentCard

AgentCard

Source (apis.yml)

aid: prostitutionlaws
name: Prostitution Laws
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://prostitutionlaws.org/cards/world-og.png?v=mvy1b23x
description: Prostitution Laws provides a comprehensive, country‑by‑country reference of prostitution legislation worldwide.
  The site maps legal models across 196 nations, detailing whether selling, buying, brothel operation, and advertising are
  permitted, regulated, or prohibited. Data is regularly updated, with methodology notes and sources for each statute, offering
  researchers, policymakers, and the public clear insight into global sex‑work laws.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/prostitutionlaws/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-02 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-02'
modified: '2026-11-02'
tags:
- Company
- Law
- Data
- Research
- Global
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/prostitutionlaws-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/prostitutionlaws-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/prostitutionlaws-vocabulary.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/prostitutionlaws-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/prostitutionlaws-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/prostitutionlaws-problem-types.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/prostitutionlaws-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/prostitutionlaws-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/prostitutionlaws-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/prostitutionlaws-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/prostitutionlaws-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://prostitutionlaws.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://prostitutionlaws.org/developers/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://prostitutionlaws.org/developers/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://prostitutionlaws.org/openapi.json
- type: llms.txt
  url: https://prostitutionlaws.org/llms.txt
- type: MCP
  url: https://prostitutionlaws.org/.well-known/mcp.json
- type: AgentCard
  url: https://prostitutionlaws.org/.well-known/agent-card.json
apis:
- name: Prostitution Laws Data API
  description: Static read‑only API providing prostitution law data for 196 countries in JSON, CSV and Markdown. No authentication
    required.
  humanURL: https://prostitutionlaws.org/developers/
  baseURL: https://prostitutionlaws.org
  aid: prostitutionlaws:prostitution-laws-data-api
- aid: prostitutionlaws:prostitution-laws-data-api-api
  name: Prostitution Laws data API API
  description: 'Static, read-only files: no key, no sign-up, no rate plan; `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`. Regenerated on
    every release of the

    site.'
  humanURL: https://prostitutionlaws.org/developers/
  baseURL: https://prostitutionlaws.org
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/prostitutionlaws-api-openapi.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/prostitutionlaws-country-document-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/prostitutionlaws-index-document-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/prostitutionlaws-all-countries-schema.json
x-submission-notes: 'Legal reference on 196 countries, CC BY 4.0, OpenAPI 3.1, MCP, A2A. Kin approved listing 2026-11-02:
  reference, not a services directory.'
x-submission-probe: openapi.json 200
x-submitted-by: editor@prostitutionlaws.org (apis.io/add, 2026-11-02)
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Prostitution Laws API — frequently asked questions

Does Prostitution Laws have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Prostitution Laws, including Prostitution Laws Data API and Prostitution Laws data API API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Prostitution Laws API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Prostitution Laws, each linked for download from this page.

Is the Prostitution Laws API ready for AI agents?

Prostitution Laws has a Kin Score of 25.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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