There is a brand new interactive sex work law map. You can spend hours with this one.

http://www.spl.ids.ac.uk/sexworklaw

I thought it was wrong about Myanmar as I was under the impression that sex work itself was not illegal. I questioned the developer who replied, with light editing:

"The cops insist all sex work is illegal and I didn't believe them till I met a lawyer and went through the statute word by word. It's based on the UK law but with one crucial difference. It's an offense to profit from prostitution. But in most laws that is the prostitution of another. In Myanmar those words are not included which means that to profit from your own prostition is illegal. (this is determined by the legal doctrine 'expressio unis est exclusio alterius')

Judges in Myanmar seem to have taken the view that all prostitution is illegal and this is the only reason the local lawyer could find in legislation for that. Of course if there was case law in Myanmar, case law would make it clear if the law applies to profiting from your own prostitution. To be certain a person would have to be charged in that way and take it to an appellate court. But they don't use that provision when they bust sex workers so it's unlikely it will be tested so it will remain ambiguous. At least when the research was done in 2010."

So there you have it. Here is something to talk about at the next sex work seminar: Prosecutions must decrease.

Jamie