Prostitution in Trinidad and Tobago

Prostitution in Trinidad and Tobago is legal but related activities such as brothel keeping, soliciting and pimping are illegal.

In Trinidad, Port of Spain is the main place of sex work, including street prostitution on Roberts and Murray Streets. New brothels continue to open across the country, particularly in the south where they are incorporated into small bars and rum shops and are difficult to detect, and in central, where they operate out of a normal-looking flats in a neighbourhood. Many of the sex workers come from Colombia, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Cuba. Some regularly commute between their home nation and Trinidad.

Prostitution is less common in Tobago, some prostitutes from Trinidad move to Tobago for the tourist season.

The country is a sex tourism destination. Tobago is also known as a destination for female sex tourism.

Sex trafficking is a problem in the country, as is child prostitution.

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