- Costa Rica Prostitution
It is impossible to have a web site that claims to cover all of Costa Rica, and leave off the adult activities available here. It is estimated that up to 20% of all visitors to Costa Rica have this as all or part of their motivation to visit the country.
Overview
Prostitution is legal in Costa Rica. The activity is legal because there is no law against it. In this country, if there is no law prohibiting something, it is legal. Prostitution in Costa Rica is both abundant and legal. Unlike the US where the government decides career choices for its citizens rather than letting the citizens decide for themselves, the Costa Rican ladies are free to offer their services of sex, as long as it is not part of a pimping type situation which is illegal in Costa Rica.
Most ladies of the night in Costa Rica are there to better their economic situations and care for their families. Some will work only a few days per month, while others make it a career choice. You will find women from Nicaragua, Argentina, Venezuela, Columbia, and Dominican Republic and of course local girls or Ticas. Light skin, dark skin and everything in between. There are 4 sources of women: escort services, bars, adult night clubs, and massage parlors.
What to expect
For the most part, the ladies of the night are very professional which means you get right down to business when they come to your room and once paid, they are out the door. The Costa Rican women are passionate in bed and will put on a fairly good performance. Most if not all will insist on condom usage, which is a good idea. Don’t expect to fall in love or find a girlfriend or wife out of the bar girls. You will not find a bustling nightlife like you would in Bangkok, but there are enough places (bars, strip joints, massage parlors, and free lancers) to keep a single man happy. Certainly, if you come to Costa Rica, you can expect to have no problems getting laid 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Sex is both legal and quite available in Costa Rica.
Women
You can find all types of women in Costa Rica. Besides Costa Ricans, or Ticas as they are called, you will find Filipinas, Russians and other Europeans. Colombianas and other South Americans are more likely to speak English than Ticas or Nicas. And the local independent contractors who learn English do so for one reason only, so they can work the high-priced ($100) gringo bars.
Costa Rican women come in all shapes and sizes and can range anywhere from busty blondes to petite brunettes. You will find girls with blue, brown, and green eyes. Some dye their hair blonde to attract more attention. Few Costa Rica women speak English well, so a brush up in your Spanish before you arrive will make conversation with the fine ladies go a long way.
Sex tours are illegal, escort services can be dodgy and not recommended. It is hard to get a girl out of a high class topless bar for less than $300. “$50 for a quick lay” — an hour in some places.
Cost
The price for sex varies from girl to girl, but the average cost for a hooker out of the bars is about $50 for a quick lay. This price can double or triple if you take a girl out of the strip clubs or higher class bars. A street girl may go with you for as little as $20 to $30.
Legal
Prostitution in Costa Rica is legal - though pimping and the prostitution of minors under 18 is not, even though it is primarily catholic country. In the U.S. mainly, sex workers have a negative connotation, whether it be streetwalkers, massage girls or escorts. In Costa Rica all Costa Ricans of age will carry a “cedula with her picture and birth date. For foreigners i.e. Nicaraguans, Panamanians, etc. ask to see her passport.
The age of consent in Costa Rica is 18 for both men and women and that includes gay or heterosexual interaction.
If anyone is thinking about coming to Costa Rica because they heard it was a good place to have relations with children, I would think again.
The government here does not tolerate it, nor do the people, and there is a very active enforcement effort to eradicate it. You will never know if the person you are talking to is undercover, and there are really good sting operations that net a lot of these people each year. Fool around with kids, and you may never go home.
Costa Rica uses an antiquated version of Napoleonic law. In Costa Rica, the law is not “innocent until proven guilty” as in the US and many other countries. Here, it is more like “innocent for now, but you are still going to jail, without bail, for a year or so while we prove you ARE guilty”.
NOTE: Bringing hookers to your apartment is tempting but dangerous.
Buyer beware. It is becoming more common to hear of American men being robbed and sometimes killed in their apartments here. They all have the same MO. They pick up girls and bring them home. Not just one but many. This, of course, increases the odds that the one they do bring home will have more ambitious plans than just earning money for sex. Many of the working girls here are from Colombia, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. These are all dangerous, violent, countries and they seem to be bringing their “rob the John” tactics to Costa Rica.
Tips to Americans with the same MO:
Don’t bring strange women home. Get to know them first. We have plenty of love motels in Costa Rica, they are inexpensive and the girl doesn’t see where you live and what you have.
Ask the girl where she is from. Most will tell you they are from Colombia, Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic. Be especially careful with these foreign women. If you are planning to pick one up, don’t carry a lot of money and leave your credit cards at home.
Fun to visit, but be careful if you are planning to pick up women at the well-known hook-up bars and other bars where the women are anonymous. If you do, however, don’t be afraid to ask to see her ID, write down her name and ID number. Prostitution is legal here, if she is age 18 or over, and there is no reason why she wouldn’t give you her ID to look at. It is a business. They have to show their IDs when they go to hotels with a guy. This is how the hotels protect their clients.
If she says she doesn’t have an ID, it is not a good idea to pick her up. She obviously wants to remain anonymous for some dark reason, or she is illegal, another reason not to mess with them.
We have plenty of places where the girls and the rooms are in the same building. You don’t have to take the girls somewhere else. The rooms are right there. The managers of these places know the women and have copies of their IDs.
The women work on a regular basis, and if any funny business is reported by the customers, the managers won’t let the woman work there any more. Also, coincidently, most of the women in these places are Costa Rican women who don’t have to worry about being threatened by the tough foreign girls at other bars which seem to be dominated by foreign women, many of whom are illegal here.
Be smart, be safe and have fun in Costa Rica. We don’t need this kind of bad publicity in Costa Rica. For the most part, the legal working girls here offer entertainment that is hard to come by legally at home, so enjoy, but be smart. Ideally, if you are living here, you should look into finding a steady girlfriend or wife, like many of us old timers who have been living here for years.
