Crossing a border changes the law before it changes the language
There is no European rule about this. There are seventeen, they disagree with each other, and the border between two of them is often a bridge. Drive from Germany into Sweden and the same evening goes from a registered occupation with a health-counselling appointment to an offence committed by the buyer. Drive from Austria into the Czech Republic and it goes from mandatory medical checks to no legislation at all. Nothing about the arrangement changed. The jurisdiction did.
The four models, and which countries use them
Regulated. Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Greece treat it as work and attach conditions: registration, health appointments, sometimes a card. The paperwork is real and it proves attendance, not identity.
Legal but unorganised. Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Malta leave the act alone and criminalise everything around it - brothels, pimping, living off another's earnings. There is no register because there is nothing to register with.
Unlegislated. The Czech Republic never passed a law either way. Selling is not a crime because no statute says so, and pimping carries four years. An entire industry advertises "relaxation" because it is the only legal word available.
The buyer commits the offence. Sweden invented this model in 1999 and France, Ireland and Norway followed. Selling is legal, buying is a crime. A visitor who assumes "legal in Europe" is a single fact walks into this one unprepared.
The one thing that does not change at any border
Every model above regulates the transaction and none of them checks the photograph. There is no country in Europe where an authority has looked at an advert and confirmed that the woman in the gallery is the woman who will open the door. That failure is identical from Lisbon to Belgrade, and it is the one that produces almost every bad evening anyone actually has.
That is what this network is for. Every profile on it has been through a face and body video review, watched by a person and matched against the gallery, before it was published. It is not a health certificate, it is not legal advice, and it does not make an evening good. It removes the one failure the law never addresses in any of the seventeen countries.
