Fact Check. Legally, on the national level sex work is legal in Taiwan, like in New Zealand. Like in New Zealand it requires a community permit. Our difference with New Zealand is currently, all the existing permits have expired and there’s no permits from new communities. So, technically you are correct. There is no place in Taiwan in which sex work is legal, but it is not because it is illegal by law, it is because there’s currently no community that issued community permits for sex work.