History Main / CampFollower

* A large portion of the camp followers are actually young women serving a tour of duty with the legions (all young people are required to serve in the legions, men as soldiers, women as camp followers). Their primary purpose is to provide housekeeping services for the soldiers such as cooking and cleaning. While they are not prostitutes it's not uncommon for them to end up marrying a soldier (and often pregnant) and the books hint that this is actually the main purpose of the program.

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* Gretchen Richter, one of the major characters in the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series is a former camp follower who was rescued and promptly married by one of the time-displaced Americans. Also she's {{Badass}}.

* ''MissSaigon''

* Clementina in ''TheDesertSong.''

* In one ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' strip, Rolf, the civilian tennis instructor in is recognized as a RareMaleExample by General Halftrack and that the actual tennis lessons that the gives the women are really [[HandsOnApproach foreplay]] when Miss Buxley tells him "I have a [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow tennis lesson]] on my lunch hour.". General Halftrack then says to Major Greenbrass, "What gets me is that she pays him.".

* She's not a prostitute, but in some [[FanArt pornographic fan art]], Miss Buxley from ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' is portrayed as being [[GooDBadGirl sexually liberated]] and she has sexual encounters with [[BiTheWay the men and women]] who are stationed at Camp Swampy. In these works, Miss Buxley's shown having sex with Beetle and General Halftrack, as well as the other male soldiers. She's also shown having [[AThreesomeIsHot mfm and mmf threesomes]] with other male soldiers and [[GirlOnGirlIsHot a lesbian encounter]] with PVT Blips.

* Not quite the same thing, but some {{Playboy}} playmates turn up to entertain the troops in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Based on an actual visit.

** It's later confirmed that some refugees began living wherever the resistance forms a base for their own protection, [[spoiler: but after most of them were carded they just started making shelter wherever they could]].

** It's later confirmed that some civilians have taken to living wherever the resistance forms a base for their own protection.

In most wars, you have a bunch of men far from home, daily scared for their lives. Along with the men came the campfollowers, a group of women and men who were wives, mistresses, merchants, and others who serviced and supplied the combatants. In later wars these were often the wartime prostitute, someone to provide soldiers, sailors, etc., with female companionship. However, up through the mid-19th century vast majority of female camp followers were soldiers' wives and women of every socioeconomic class accompanying the army and creating a military community. They nursed, sewed, washed, acted as merchants. Outright prostitution was often restricted or, in some cases, banned, either to maintain good military order and discipline or to maintain dignity of more "legitimate" camp followers.

-->'''Reek[[spoiler:/Theon]]:''' Washerwomen. That was the polite way of saying camp follower, which was the polite way of saying whore.

-->'''Reek[[/spoiler:Theon]]:''' Washerwomen. That was the polite way of saying camp follower, which was the polite way of saying whore.

-->'''Reek/[[spoiler:Theon]]:''' Washerwomen. That was the polite way of saying camp follower, which was the polite way of saying whore.

* On ''GenerationKill'', the Marines are approached by two Iraqi gay male prostitutes.

* The ''vivandieres''were French female independent merchants who followed Napoleon's armies in wagons to sell food, small luxuries, and wines to the troops. Some of them also did a little hustling on the side, though this was frowned on by most of the girls, who viewed themselves as legit tradesmen. During the great retreat in Russia, many of them rescued stranded and wounded troops, and even in some cases fought off marauding Cossacks. They were swashbucklers of the first order, and they need their own flick.

In most wars, you have a bunch of men far from home, daily scared for their lives. Along with the men came the campfollowers, a group of women and men who were wives, mistresses, merchants, and others who serviced and supplied the combatants. In later wars these were often the wartime prostitute, someone to provide soldiers, sailors, etc., with female companionship. However, up through the mid-19th century vast majority of female campfollowers were soldiers' wives and women of every socioeconomic class accompanying the army and creating a military community. They nursed, sewed, washed, acted as merchants. Outright prostitution was often restricted or, in some cases, banned, either to maintain good military order and discipline or to maintain dignity of more "legitimate" camp followers.

* Cheryl Ladd's character (Deborah Solomon) in ''Film/PurpleHearts'' wasn't a prostitute, but a Navy nurse. She provided the romantic interest and motivation to Ken Wahl's character Don Jardian, which led him to volunteering for some dangerous missions just so he could see her.

* At the beginning of ''{{Sharpe}}'s Rifles'', a bunch of drunken redcoats are seen sleeping with some local women who have turned to prostitution. Later in the book, Sharpe has an argument with the Spanish officer he's teamed up with while fondling a prostitute. He doesn't sleep with her.

* The ironically-named Chastity eventually becomes one of these in ''VileBodies''.

* ''GoneWithTheWind'' includes a description of the prostitutes that have come pouring into Atlanta with the army, including a wry observation by the town's #1 Bad Woman that she was turned away from volunteering at the hospital because they "didn't want [her] kind of nursing".

* Nicholette in ''SevenMenOfGascony''. In some ways she is a subversion as she is not only a wine seller rather then a prostitute but she is almost prudish for the circumstances, being married to every one of the soldiers she serviced(one at a time of course until he was killed). The only irregularity was that her first husband was married in a French OldSoldier ritual rather then legally.
* The regiments of the Sabbat Crusade in ''GauntsGhosts'' are shown to be accompanied on their travels by various wives, lovers, children and assorted men and women of both business and pleasure. They're even assigned their own decks on the leviathan troop transports. The number of camp followers is said to match or even exceed the actual regiment in size.
* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'' : Nobel's army in ''The Baron of Maleperduys'' is accompanied by several stripes of these. Some are the highly respected [[BandOfBrothels priestesses of Sphinx]], while others are clearly [[SexSlave sex slaves]]. The majority of them appear to be run of the mill [[TheOldestProfession prostitutes.]]

* In ''Film/{{Mediterraneo}}'', a troop of Italian soldiers is sent to a Greek island during World War II. While most of the locals are hiding, a prostitute (played by Vana Barba) stays to offer her services. She will later marry one of the soldiers.

* The regiments of the Sabbat Crusade in ''GauntsGhosts'' are shown to be accompanied on their travels by various wives, lovers, children and assorted men and women of both business and pleasure. They're even assigned their own decks on the leviathan troop transports.