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Missouri
In Missouri, all aspects of the sex trade —whether selling sex, buying sex, promoting it, or profiting from it—are completely illegal.. Missouri has distinct laws for purchasing sexual services (patronizing and prostitution (selling sexual services). Missouri has a trafficking-specific law for criminal record relief, but it only applies to survivors who were minors at the time of their arrests, leaving most survivors without a criminal record relief option.
Prostitution laws of
Missouri
- Section 567.010 - Chapter definitions. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.020 - Prostitution — penalty — no certification as an adult, when.(8/28/2022)
- Section 567.030 - Patronizing prostitution — penalty. (8/28/2018)
- Section 567.050 - Promoting prostitution in the first degree — penalties — civil action for victims — restitution. (8/28/2019)
- Section 567.060 - Promoting prostitution in the second degree — penalty.(8/28/2018)
- Section 567.070 - Promoting prostitution in the third degree — penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.080 - Prostitution houses deemed public nuisances. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.085 - Promoting travel for prostitution — penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.087 - Prohibitions on travel agencies or tour operators — rebuttable presumption, advertisements. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.089 - Offering travel for purpose of prostitution prohibited — penalties. (6/5/2006)
- Section 567.010 - Chapter definitions. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.020 - Prostitution — penalty — no certification as an adult, when.(8/28/2022)
- Section 567.030 - Patronizing prostitution — penalty. (8/28/2018)
- Section 567.050 - Promoting prostitution in the first degree — penalties — civil action for victims — restitution. (8/28/2019)
- Section 567.060 - Promoting prostitution in the second degree — penalty.(8/28/2018)
- Section 567.070 - Promoting prostitution in the third degree — penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.080 - Prostitution houses deemed public nuisances. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.085 - Promoting travel for prostitution — penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.087 - Prohibitions on travel agencies or tour operators — rebuttable presumption, advertisements. (1/1/2017)
- Section 567.089 - Offering travel for purpose of prostitution prohibited — penalties. (6/5/2006)
Trafficking laws of
Missouri
- Section 566.200 - Definitions. (8/28/2011)
- Section 566.203 - Abusing an individual through forced labor — penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 566.206 - Trafficking for the purpose of slavery, involuntary servitude, peonage, or forced labor — penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 566.209 - Trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation — penalty.(1/1/2017)
- Section 566.210 - Sexual trafficking of a child, first degree, penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 566.211 - Sexual trafficking of a child, second degree, penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 566.215 - Contributing to human trafficking through the misuse of documentation, penalty. (1/1/2017)
- Section 566.218 - Restitution required for certain offenders. (1/1/2017)