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{{short description|Overview of the legality and practice of prostitution in Afghanistan}}
[[Prostitution]] is illegal in [[Afghanistan]],<ref name="Naseer Rahin" /> with punishments ranging from 5 to 15 years of imprisonment.<ref name="US2008">{{cite web |url= https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/sca/119131.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090226175714/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/sca/119131.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 February 2009 |title=2008 Human Rights Report: Afghanistan|access-date=13 October 2008 |website= US Department of State |year=2008}}</ref> The country is [[Islamist|deeply religious]] and one of the most [[conservatism|conservative]] countries in the world, where [[fornication|sex outside marriage]] is not only against the law but could lead to serious consequences, even [[capital punishment]].<ref name="Azam Ahmed">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/world/asia/mazar-i-sharifs-economic-success-extends-to-its-sex-trade.html|title=An Afghan city economic success extend to its sex trade|date=April 17, 2013 |access-date=17 April 2013|work=Azam Ahmed |publisher=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/world/asia/19afghan.html?_r=1 |title= A New Sorrow for Afghanistan: AIDS Joins List (page 1) |access-date=17 August 2010 |author=Carlotta Gall |work=The New York Times |date=19 March 2007}}</ref>
Paying "..for sex gives [clients] easy access to women that they otherwise would not be able to meet or could only have contact with if they were married -- a costly exercise in itself."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/feature-under-wraps-prostitution-rife-in-north-afghanistan-idUSISL173658/ |title=FEATURE-Under wraps, prostitution rife in north Afghanistan |date=2008-05-20}}</ref>
Despite the dangers, several [[NGO]]s have reported a rise in prostitution stemming from poverty.<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite web |last1=Glinski |first1=Stefanie |title='I'm sacrificing myself': agony of Kabul's secret sex workers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/14/im-sacrificing-myself-agony-of-kabuls-secret-sex-workers-afghanistan |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 August 2021 |language=en |date=14 June 2021}}</ref> APMG Health estimated there to be 12,500 prostitutes in the country in 2015.<ref name="APMG Health" /> In 2020 [[UNAIDS]] estimated there to be 11,000 prostitutes in [[Kabul]], [[Herat]], [[Mazar-i-Sharif|Mazar]] and [[Jalalabad]] based on a 2019 survey.<ref name="UNAIDS" /> Prior to [[Resolute Support Mission|foreign troops]] withdrawing from the country, there have been reports of brothels and prostitution around US bases.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vine |first1=David |title=Women's labor, sex work and U.S. military bases abroad |url=https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/womens-labor-sex-work-and-u-s-military-bases-abroad/ |website=Salon |access-date=22 August 2021 |language=en |date=8 October 2017}}</ref>
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