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* Biggie Shorty in ''PootieTang'' dresses like a hooker and likes to stand on the street (usually listening and dancing to Pootie's music). However, when two guys roll up in car and ask how how much she would charge to do them both, she starts physically assaulting them, pointing out that she's not a hooker. When one of them weekly tries to tell her than anyone would get that idea, she increases the beating.
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* ''Film/LAConfidential'', when the detective mistakes the actual Lana Turner for a lookalike prostitute.
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* ''Film/LAConfidential'', when while investigating a ring of movie-star lookalike call girls, the detective mistakes the actual ''actual'' Lana Turner for a lookalike prostitute.hooker. While she's hanging out with her mafia boyfriend.
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* Played with in ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets''. This trope happens to Maggie three times as she wanders alone through Texas. The first time, just after her breakup with Hopey (Maggie still clad in the slinky party dress she was wearing at the time), a man propositions her at a bus station. Penniless and wanting to make her way home, she accepts, for three hundred dollars. The second time, in another town, everyone at the local motel assumes this about her, including an actual prostitute who assaults her for invading her turf. The thoroughly demoralized Maggie, noticing a security guard eyeing her, invites him to her room for sex. When she awakens, she finds he's left her money; she doesn't return it. Played straight the third time as, having returned to the town, patched things up with the prostitute and just about to be reunited with Hopey, one of the motel owners slaps her in the face after a regular blames her for breaking up his marriage[[hottip:*:even though it was entirely his idea to leave his wife for Maggie]], whereupon yet another man propositions her. This time, she responds by beating him up.
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* Played with in ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets''. This trope happens to Maggie three times as she wanders alone through Texas. The first time, just after her breakup with Hopey (Maggie still clad in the slinky party dress she was wearing at the time), a man propositions her at a bus station. Penniless and wanting to make her way home, she accepts, for three hundred dollars. The second time, in another town, everyone at the local motel assumes this about her, including an actual prostitute who assaults her for invading her turf. The thoroughly demoralized Maggie, noticing a security guard eyeing her, invites him to her room for sex. When she awakens, she finds he's left her money; she doesn't return it. Played straight the third time as, having returned to the town, patched things up with the prostitute and just about to be reunited with Hopey, one of the motel owners slaps her in the face after a regular blames her for breaking up his marriage[[hottip:*:even marriage[[note]]even though it was entirely his idea to leave his wife for Maggie]], Maggie[[/note]], whereupon yet another man propositions her. This time, she responds by beating him up.
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* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Tamar in the BookOfGenesis. Her first husband passed away without leaving any [[HeirClubForMen male heirs]], so she married his brother Onan [[ValuesDissonance in hopes of perpetuating his family lineage]]. But Onan didn't want kids that were not legally his, so he practiced coitus interruptus...and also died a premature death. Next in line is a boy named Shelah. But Judah doesn't want to give up Shelah, because he worries that [[CartwrightCurse Tamar is cursed]] and that he'll lose his last son. Conveniently, Shelah is not ''quite'' old enough for marriage yet, so Judah tells Tamar to move back in with her parents and wait, which she does. When Shelah comes of age, he is not given to Tamar as promised (and indeed expected by society). So Tamar puts on the veil and garments of a shrine prostitute and waits while Judah heads up to Timnah. He promises to pay her a goat for her "services," [[hottip:*: Remember, this is a barter economy.]], and she takes his seal, cord, and staff as collateral. Three months later, her pregnancy is revealed, and Judah sentences her to be [[HonorRelatedAbuse burned to death]] for engaging in illicit sex. Before she is brought to the stake, Tamar sends a messenger with the items to Judah, saying that they belong to the man that impregnated her. Judah owns up to his role in all this, and spares Tamar's life, even allowing her to live under his roof and supporting her as he would an actual wife.
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* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Tamar in the BookOfGenesis. Her first husband passed away without leaving any [[HeirClubForMen male heirs]], so she married his brother Onan [[ValuesDissonance in hopes of perpetuating his family lineage]]. But Onan didn't want kids that were not legally his, so he practiced coitus interruptus...and also died a premature death. Next in line is a boy named Shelah. But Judah doesn't want to give up Shelah, because he worries that [[CartwrightCurse Tamar is cursed]] and that he'll lose his last son. Conveniently, Shelah is not ''quite'' old enough for marriage yet, so Judah tells Tamar to move back in with her parents and wait, which she does. When Shelah comes of age, he is not given to Tamar as promised (and indeed expected by society). So Tamar puts on the veil and garments of a shrine prostitute and waits while Judah heads up to Timnah. He promises to pay her a goat for her "services," [[hottip:*: [[note]] Remember, this is a barter economy.]], [[/note]], and she takes his seal, cord, and staff as collateral. Three months later, her pregnancy is revealed, and Judah sentences her to be [[HonorRelatedAbuse burned to death]] for engaging in illicit sex. Before she is brought to the stake, Tamar sends a messenger with the items to Judah, saying that they belong to the man that impregnated her. Judah owns up to his role in all this, and spares Tamar's life, even allowing her to live under his roof and supporting her as he would an actual wife.
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* In the 1992 comedy film ''Passed Away'', a young woman by the name of Cassie shows up for the funeral of Jack Scanlon. Jack's eldest son Johnny assumes that Cassie is Jack's secret mistress, but when they get alone together, Johnny finds out that Cassie merely received financial help from Jack and was not in any way romantically involved with him.
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* There's an episode of ''Series/HappyEndings'' where Alex is mistaken for a prostitute.
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* There's an episode of ''Series/HappyEndings'' where Alex is mistaken for a prostitute. Specifically, she's wearing an oldfashioned sexy fur coat draped over a tight red dress on Valentine's day, and she waves over a car, leans into the window and asks the driver if they're looking for a party-because she was lost.
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* A variation happens in ''BridgetJonesDiary'' where Bridget goes to a "Prostitutes and Priests" themed costume party and isn't told that the costume part is off. Bridget's mother introduces her to another guest called Penny dressed in an elaborate pink number saying that she wasn't told the theme had been called off either. There is a magnificent moment of awkwardness after Penny replies that she ''was'' told.
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* A variation happens in ''BridgetJonesDiary'' ''Literature/BridgetJones' Diary'' where Bridget goes to a "Prostitutes and Priests" themed costume party and isn't told that the costume part is off. Bridget's mother introduces her to another guest called Penny dressed in an elaborate pink number saying that she wasn't told the theme had been called off either. There is a magnificent moment of awkwardness after Penny replies that she ''was'' told.
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A variation is when a woman is nice to a nerdy male, who assumes she must be a prostitute looking for work because why else would any woman be nice to a nerdy male?
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A variation is when [[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction a woman is nice to a nerdy male, male]] who assumes she must be a prostitute looking for work because why else would any woman be nice to a nerdy male?
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* A male case occurs in ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths''-- due to his unusually bright clothing and lack of directional sense, Felix gets mistaken for a prostitute by a group of [[DepravedBisexual opportunistic]] thugs. Luckily, a real prostitute smoothes things over for him.
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* Viper gets hit with this trope in ''TheWolverine''. Being who [[AxeCrazy she]] [[PoisonousPerson is]], this goes [[{{Understatement}} badly]] for the potential john.
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* Viper gets hit with this trope in ''TheWolverine''.''Film/TheWolverine''. Being who [[AxeCrazy she]] [[PoisonousPerson is]], this goes [[{{Understatement}} badly]] for the potential john.
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* Viper gets hit with this trope in ''TheWolverine''. Being who [[AxeCrazy she]] [[PoisonousPerson is]], this goes [[{{Understatement}} badly]] for the potential john.
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* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', Inspector Barnes suspects Susanswerphone of being a prostitution front. [[InnocentInnuendo Some unfortunate remarks]] made by Ella nearly land her and the other employees in the Women's Detention Home; it doesn't help that one of their subscribers is named Madame Grimaldi.
* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', Inspector Barnes suspects Susanswerphone of being a prostitution front. [[InnocentInnuendo Some unfortunate remarks]] made by Ella nearly land her and the other employees in the Women's Detention Home; it doesn't help that one of their subscribers is named Madame Grimaldi.
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* Lois in ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' gets a rather trashy makeover that she has to wear for her job. When a man asks if she's a hooker she is outraged... then she thanks him and drags him into her boss's office to convince him to let her go back to her old look.
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* Lois in ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' gets a rather trashy makeover that she has to wear for her job. When a man asks if she's a hooker she is outraged... then she thanks him and drags him into her boss's office to convince him to let her go back to her old look. Though it was also because the man she brought in happened to be her boss' brother-in-law.
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* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Tamar in the BookOfGenesis. Her first husband passed away without leaving any [[HeirClubForMen male heirs]], so she married his brother Onan [[ValuesDissonance in hopes of perpetuating his family lineage]]. But Onan didn't want kids that were not legally his, so he practiced coitus interruptus...and also died a premature death. Next in line is a boy named Shelah. But Judah doesn't want to give up Shelah, because he worries that [[CartwrightCurse Tamar is cursed]] and that he'll lose his last son. Conveniently, Shelah is not ''quite'' old enough for marriage yet, so Judah tells Tamar to move back in with her parents and wait, which she does. When Shelah comes of age, he is not given to Tamar as promised (and indeed expected by society). So Tamar puts on the veil and garments of a shrine prostitute and waits while Judah heads up to Timnah. He promises to pay her a goat for her "services," [[hottip:*: Remember, this is a barter economy.]], and she takes his seal, cord, and staff as collateral. Three months later, her pregnancy is revealed, and Judah sentences her to be [[HonorRelatedAbuse burned to death]] for engaging in illicit sex. Before she is brought to the stake, Tamar sends a messenger with the items to Judah, saying that they belong to the man that impregnated her. Judah owns up to his role in all this, and spares Tamar's life, even allowing her to live under his roof and supporting her as he would an actual wife.
* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Tamar in the BookOfGenesis. Her first husband passed away without leaving any [[HeirClubForMen male heirs]], so she married his brother Onan [[ValuesDissonance in hopes of perpetuating his family lineage]]. But Onan didn't want kids that were not legally his, so he practiced coitus interruptus...and also died a premature death. Next in line is a boy named Shelah. But Judah doesn't want to give up Shelah, because he worries that [[CartwrightCurse Tamar is cursed]] and that he'll lose his last son. Conveniently, Shelah is not ''quite'' old enough for marriage yet, so Judah tells Tamar to move back in with her parents and wait, which she does. When Shelah comes of age, he is not given to Tamar as promised (and indeed expected by society). So Tamar puts on the veil and garments of a shrine prostitute and waits while Judah heads up to Timnah. He promises to pay her a goat for her "services," [[hottip:*: Remember, this is a barter economy.]], and she takes his seal, cord, and staff as collateral. Three months later, her pregnancy is revealed, and Judah sentences her to be [[HonorRelatedAbuse burned to death]] for engaging in illicit sex. Before she is brought to the stake, Tamar sends a messenger with the items to Judah, saying that they belong to the man that impregnated her. Judah owns up to his role in all this, and spares Tamar's life, even allowing her to live under his roof and supporting her as he would an actual wife.
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* Rachel Morgan, the heroine of ''TheHollows'' series, is noted for having unfortunate dress sense. Because of the way she is dressed, she is mistaken for a hooker in the first scene of the first novel. It remains a RunningGag for the first few books; Vampiric Charms, her SupernaturalDetective agency, even gets listed under Escorts in the phone book.
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* Rachel Morgan, the heroine of ''TheHollows'' series, is noted for having unfortunate dress sense. Because of the way she is dressed, she is mistaken for a hooker in the first scene of the first novel. It remains a RunningGag for the first few books; Vampiric Charms, her SupernaturalDetective OccultDetective agency, even gets listed under Escorts in the phone book.
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* In the first book of TheSwordOfTruth, Richard and Kahlan enter an inn in a WretchedHive. Kahlan is immediately mistaken for a whore. Not wanting to cause bloodshed, she merely pretends to have a day off with Richard being hired by her.
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* In the first book of TheSwordOfTruth, ''TheSwordOfTruth'', Richard and Kahlan enter an inn in a WretchedHive. Kahlan is immediately mistaken for a whore. Not wanting to cause bloodshed, she merely pretends to have a day off with Richard being hired by her.
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* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess - [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7162960/1/AMG-1-Tabula-Rasa Tabula Rasa]]. In this reboot Keichi assumes the exotically dressed woman offering him any wish he desires must be an escort.
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* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess - [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7162960/1/AMG-1-Tabula-Rasa Tabula Rasa]].Rasa]]''. In this reboot Keichi assumes the exotically dressed woman offering him any wish he desires must be an escort.
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* This ends up being [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Supergirl's]] first encounter with humanity. Then again with that skirt...
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* Played with in ''LoveAndRockets''. This trope happens to Maggie three times as she wanders alone through Texas. The first time, just after her breakup with Hopey (Maggie still clad in the slinky party dress she was wearing at the time), a man propositions her at a bus station. Penniless and wanting to make her way home, she accepts, for three hundred dollars. The second time, in another town, everyone at the local motel assumes this about her, including an actual prostitute who assaults her for invading her turf. The thoroughly demoralized Maggie, noticing a security guard eyeing her, invites him to her room for sex. When she awakens, she finds he's left her money; she doesn't return it. Played straight the third time as, having returned to the town, patched things up with the prostitute and just about to be reunited with Hopey, one of the motel owners slaps her in the face after a regular blames her for breaking up his marriage[[hottip:*:even though it was entirely his idea to leave his wife for Maggie]], whereupon yet another man propositions her. This time, she responds by beating him up.
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* Played with in ''LoveAndRockets''.''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets''. This trope happens to Maggie three times as she wanders alone through Texas. The first time, just after her breakup with Hopey (Maggie still clad in the slinky party dress she was wearing at the time), a man propositions her at a bus station. Penniless and wanting to make her way home, she accepts, for three hundred dollars. The second time, in another town, everyone at the local motel assumes this about her, including an actual prostitute who assaults her for invading her turf. The thoroughly demoralized Maggie, noticing a security guard eyeing her, invites him to her room for sex. When she awakens, she finds he's left her money; she doesn't return it. Played straight the third time as, having returned to the town, patched things up with the prostitute and just about to be reunited with Hopey, one of the motel owners slaps her in the face after a regular blames her for breaking up his marriage[[hottip:*:even though it was entirely his idea to leave his wife for Maggie]], whereupon yet another man propositions her. This time, she responds by beating him up.
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* In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', when Abby skips bail after being charged with crimes against nature for her relationship with the title character, she flees to Gotham, stops to ask some prostitutes to recommend a place to stay, and gets picked up along with them in a police sting.
* Played with in ''LoveAndRockets''. This trope happens to Maggie three times as she wanders alone through Texas. The first time, just after her breakup with Hopey (Maggie still clad in the slinky party dress she was wearing at the time), a man propositions her at a bus station. Penniless and wanting to make her way home, she accepts, for three hundred dollars. The second time, in another town, everyone at the local motel assumes this about her, including an actual prostitute who assaults her for invading her turf. The thoroughly demoralized Maggie, noticing a security guard eyeing her, invites him to her room for sex. When she awakens, she finds he's left her money; she doesn't return it. Played straight the third time as, having returned to the town, patched things up with the prostitute and just about to be reunited with Hopey, one of the motel owners slaps her in the face after a regular blames her for breaking up his marriage[[hottip:*:even though it was entirely his idea to leave his wife for Maggie]], whereupon yet another man propositions her. This time, she responds by beating him up.
* In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', when Abby skips bail after being charged with crimes against nature for her relationship with the title character, she flees to Gotham, stops to ask some prostitutes to recommend a place to stay, and gets picked up along with them in a police sting.
* Played with in ''LoveAndRockets''. This trope happens to Maggie three times as she wanders alone through Texas. The first time, just after her breakup with Hopey (Maggie still clad in the slinky party dress she was wearing at the time), a man propositions her at a bus station. Penniless and wanting to make her way home, she accepts, for three hundred dollars. The second time, in another town, everyone at the local motel assumes this about her, including an actual prostitute who assaults her for invading her turf. The thoroughly demoralized Maggie, noticing a security guard eyeing her, invites him to her room for sex. When she awakens, she finds he's left her money; she doesn't return it. Played straight the third time as, having returned to the town, patched things up with the prostitute and just about to be reunited with Hopey, one of the motel owners slaps her in the face after a regular blames her for breaking up his marriage[[hottip:*:even though it was entirely his idea to leave his wife for Maggie]], whereupon yet another man propositions her. This time, she responds by beating him up.
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* A variation happens in ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' where Bridget goes to a "Prostitutes and Priests" themed costume party and isn't told that the costume part is off. Bridget's mother introduces her to another guest called Penny dressed in an elaborate pink number saying that she wasn't told the theme had been called off either. There is a magnificent moment of awkwardness after Penny replies that she ''was'' told.
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* A variation happens in ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' ''BridgetJonesDiary'' where Bridget goes to a "Prostitutes and Priests" themed costume party and isn't told that the costume part is off. Bridget's mother introduces her to another guest called Penny dressed in an elaborate pink number saying that she wasn't told the theme had been called off either. There is a magnificent moment of awkwardness after Penny replies that she ''was'' told.
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* This would have happened to Giselle upon arriving to New York in the original R-rated script of ''Disney/{{Enchanted}}''. Thankfully, it was cut out.
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* This would have happened to Giselle upon arriving to New York in the original R-rated script of ''Disney/{{Enchanted}}''.''Film/{{Enchanted}}''. Thankfully, it was cut out.
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* In ''CaptainSNES'', [[ChronoTrigger Marle]] attempts to deal with people on the street in Nexus the same way [[HeroicMime Crono]] does: staring at them until they give [[WelcomeToCorneria useful information]]. However, she's no longer in her RPG world, and most of the people she attempts to talk to aren't [=NPCs=], so it doesn't go well. Most people clue in to the fact that she's an RPG character, against which there is [[FantasticRacism a lot of bias]] in Nexus, but at least a few of them mistake her for a prostitute.
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* Male variation in ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}''; trolls don't make a gender distinction in the promiscuity stigma. Eridan, when he joined the fleet, slept with anyone who looked at him in a desperate attempt to fit in, and rumours of him committing theft got mixed up with stories of him fucking everyone and got him arrested for illegal prostitution.
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* ''OrderOfTheStick'' has a joke where Roy finds his sister, [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Julia]] after her kidnapping, and assumes from her dress sense that she had been subjected to GoGoEnslavement.
* ''OrderOfTheStick'' has a joke where Roy finds his sister, [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Julia]] after her kidnapping, and assumes from her dress sense that she had been subjected to GoGoEnslavement.
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* In [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-22 this]] and the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-23 next]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-24 few]] strips of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', the fancy evening dress Dr. Bunnigus puts on for the evening is mentioned by Captain Tagon and Lt Shodan to look like she's dressing as a prostitute.
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* In [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-22 this]] and the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-23 next]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-24 few]] strips of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', the fancy evening dress Dr. Bunnigus puts on for the evening is mentioned by Captain Tagon and Lt Shodan to look like she's dressing as a prostitute.
* In ''CaptainSNES'', [[ChronoTrigger Marle]] attempts to deal with people on the street in Nexus the same way [[HeroicMime Crono]] does: staring at them until they give [[WelcomeToCorneria useful information]]. However, she's no longer in her RPG world, and most of the people she attempts to talk to aren't [=NPCs=], so it doesn't go well. Most people clue in to the fact that she's an RPG character, against which there is [[FantasticRacism a lot of bias]] in Nexus, but at least a few of them mistake her for a prostitute.
* In ''CaptainSNES'', [[ChronoTrigger Marle]] attempts to deal with people on the street in Nexus the same way [[HeroicMime Crono]] does: staring at them until they give [[WelcomeToCorneria useful information]]. However, she's no longer in her RPG world, and most of the people she attempts to talk to aren't [=NPCs=], so it doesn't go well. Most people clue in to the fact that she's an RPG character, against which there is [[FantasticRacism a lot of bias]] in Nexus, but at least a few of them mistake her for a prostitute.
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* In ''{{Angel}}'' Cordelia is handing out business cards for their business with the ambiguous slogan "We help the helpless". One of the guys she hands them to assumes she is a hooker and Doyle is her pimp.
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* In ''{{Angel}}'' ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Cordelia is handing out business cards for their business with the ambiguous slogan "We help the helpless". One of the guys she hands them to assumes she is a hooker and Doyle is her pimp.
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* Happens to Princess Solange in ''VideoGame/CodeOfPrincess''.
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* Rachel Morgan, the heroine of ''TheHollows'' series, is noted for having unfortunate dress sense. Because of the way she is dressed, she is mistaken for a hooker in the first scene of the first novel.
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Sometimes, a good-looking person (most often a woman) in the "wrong" part of town will be accosted by someone who's looking for a prostitute and thinks he's found one. This is often PlayedForLaughs in fiction, but can be a real danger in RealLife. Police departments that are cracking down on the sex trade have been known to arrest women based on appearance profiling.
When treated as comedy, whether the mistaken-for person decks the accoster or flees there will always be a followup scene where that person asks if she really dresses like a sex worker. The answer is always Yes. Don't be surprised to find some ValuesDissonance or UnfortunateImplications here, in the form of "nice girls don't wear _____". And it doesn't necessarily have to be clothing items; this is one area where MakeUpIsEvil isn't a ForgottenTrope.
A variation is when a woman is nice to a nerdy male, who assumes she must be a prostitute looking for work because why else would any woman be nice to a nerdy male?
Compare MistakenForGay, MistakenForPregnant and pretty much every other trope in the MistakenForIndex. A female subject is often wearing
{{Stripperiffic}} fashions, males have some more flexibility on the trope dress code.
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* Mentioned by DaveBarry, in an anecdote where the husband complains about the wife's driving, and she snaps LetsSeeYouDoBetter. She is about to get in the back, when it occurs to her she should be in front and slams the door, at which point the husband thinks she's in and drives off. Being dressed lightly in a bad neighborhood, she gets several price offers from passing men (It all worked out in the end though).
* In an old joke, a guy at a restaurant asks the girl sitting at the next table if she could pass the salt. She screams "EXCUSE ME?! WHAT KIND OF WHORE DO YOU THINK I AM?!", mortifying him in front of the whole restaurant. A few minutes later she hands him the saltshaker, saying her previous outburst was part of a psychological experiment in social stress. He responds "250 BUCKS AND THE ROOM? WHAT KIND OF WHORE ARE YOU?"
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* This ends up being [[{{Supergirl}} Supergirl's]] first encounter with humanity. Then again with that skirt...
[[AC: Fan Fiction]]
* In the ''RanmaOneHalf'' fanfic "Sauce", this happens to Shampoo, who is for plot-related reasons on a "date" with an ugly nerd, a passerby offers her "double" to go with him instead.
* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess - [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7162960/1/AMG-1-Tabula-Rasa Tabula Rasa]]. In this reboot Keichi assumes the exotically dressed woman offering him any wish he desires must be an escort.
[[AC: Film]]
* A variation happens in ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' where Bridget goes to a "Prostitutes and Priests" themed costume party and isn't told that the costume part is off. Bridget's mother introduces her to another guest called Penny dressed in an elaborate pink number saying that she wasn't told the theme had been called off either. There is a magnificent moment of awkwardness after Penny replies that she ''was'' told.
--> '''Pamela:''' [[BlatantLies That's a lovely dress, Penny. Oriental?]]
* Inverted in ''Once Upon A Crime'', where a jaded housewife thinks a guy is paying her for sex, and to spite her gambling-addicted husband, she says she would sleep with the guy for free. It turns out he was just giving her the share of the roulette winnings for calling the right number.
* In ''Film/GodBlessAmerica'', a pedophile mistakes Roxy for a child prostitute and Frank, for her pimp.
* ''Film/LAConfidential'', when the detective mistakes the actual Lana Turner for a lookalike prostitute.
* A variant in ''Film/PhoneBooth'', where several ''strippers'' react very badly indeed to the protagonist describing them as hookers.
* This would have happened to Giselle upon arriving to New York in the original R-rated script of ''Disney/{{Enchanted}}''. Thankfully, it was cut out.
[[AC: Literature]]
* In the first book of TheSwordOfTruth, Richard and Kahlan enter an inn in a WretchedHive. Kahlan is immediately mistaken for a whore. Not wanting to cause bloodshed, she merely pretends to have a day off with Richard being hired by her.
* In the novel ''{{Neverwhere}}'', Richard initially thinks that the master bodyguard Hunter is a prostitute based on a combination of [[{{Stripperific}} how she dresses]] and the fact that she advertises that she supplies "personal physical services" (which is actually a non-sexual UnusualEuphemism).
* Happens in [[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo 1634 The Galileo Affair]] with Giovanna at a fancy dress party. Made awkward by how everyone wants to make clear that there's nothing wrong with prostitution per se. Then we learn that this is a recurring problem for Venetian Jews, who are required by law to wear yellow hats or veils in public -- the same colour as prostitutes.
* In ''Literature/StandOnZanzibar'', Bronwen is almost denied entry to Yatakang because of her [[DangerouslyShortSkirt microsari]] and the fact that her passport says she's a widow. In Yatakangi, the word "widow" is a common euphemism for "prostitute".
* In the Discworld novel ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Angua finds a notebook in Captain Vimes's quarters with a list of women's names and dollar amounts. Having spent most of the book with a rather low opinion of Vimes, she naturally assumes they're prostitutes. [[spoiler:They're widows and orphans of Watchmen.]]
* In the Esther Diamond novel ''Unsympathetic Magic'', actress Esther is playing a prostitute while filming on location in Harlem. After witnessing some terrifying magic late at night, she runs out into traffic screaming about zombies and men with swords. Unsurprisingly, the drivers who stop for her assume she's on drugs and either tell her to get out of the way or try to hire her.
* Rachel Morgan, the heroine of ''TheHollows'' series, is noted for having unfortunate dress sense. Because of the way she is dressed, she is mistaken for a hooker in the first scene of the first novel.
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* Lois in ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' gets a rather trashy makeover that she has to wear for her job. When a man asks if she's a hooker she is outraged...then she thanks him and drags him into her boss's office to convince him to let her go back to her old look.
* Happens twice to Robin in ''HowIMetYourMother''. She goes on a date with a nerd to prove something to Barney and he assumes she is a hooker. The next time happens when she sneaks into a prom by pretending to be another nerd's date.
** Earlier there is the episode "Mary The Paralegal" where Barney tells Ted he's getting him an escort for the night but he reveals to the others that she isn't. The trope is played straight at the end of the episode because Ted doesn't know.
* In ''{{Angel}}'' Cordelia is handing out business cards for their business with the ambiguous slogan "We help the helpless". One of the guys she hands them to assumes she is a hooker and Doyle is her pimp.
* In ''AshesToAshes'' [=DI=] Alex Drake arrives in 1981 dressed as a prostitute, and the entire station thinks she actually is one until she produces her warrant card.
* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' Dee is mistaken for a prostitute in the "Mac Is A Serial Killer" episode.
* In ''PrimeSuspect 1'', as soon as [=DCI=] Jane Tennison sits to have a drink in a pub with two prostitutes she's questioning, a man asks her for 15 minutes in his van parked outside.
* In a ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode, Dick is convinced that he's about to be recalled to the home planet and is worried about what will happen to Mary without him. When they're at a bar, he tries to find a man to set her up with. They're thrown out after being mistaken for a pimp and hooker.
* There's an episode of ''Series/HappyEndings'' where Alex is mistaken for a prostitute.
* In a sketch on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' a DirtyOldMan mistakes several posted advertisements as stealth prostitution ads ("small white pussycat for sale" etc.) but none of them are - except one.
-->Dirty Old Man: Which one is it? ''shopkeeper surreptitiously hands him a card. Reads'' "Blonde prostitute will indulge in any sexual activities, only 4 quid a week." [[ComicallyMissingThePoint What does that mean? ]]
* Combined with ComicallyMissingThePoint in the ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'' episode "General Hospital" after Blackadder and Nurse Mary start sleeping together.
-->Blackadder: What happened to [your boyfriend]?
-->Mary: He bought it.
-->Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that was the arrangement, um... ''(starts digging for his wallet)''
* Michelle constantly gets this in the sleepy small town of Paradise in ''Series/{{Bunheads}}''. She may have been a Las Vegas dancer, but it was always above board and she gets offended when she gets accused of doing worse.
* In an episode of ''Series/BarneyMiller'' Fish is dressed as a woman while out on purse-snatching detail and gets hit on by an old man who offers "her" money.
* Inversion on ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'': Bob is outside a Bulls game trying to sell an extra ticket and gets mistaken for a john by an undercover lady cop.
* Inverted in an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', where Kramer, dressed in the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, wearing a large fuzzy hat, and walking with a cane, tries to remove a prostitute from doing business in his car. A cop mistakes him for a pimp.
[[AC:Manga and Anime]]
* Done in [[Manga/{{Karin}} Chibi Vampire]], where [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Usui Kenta]] spots [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Karin]] in the park who, from behind, appears to be embracing a much-older man. He assumes her to be a child sex worker of some kind, when in fact she was just a vampire biting into the man's neck.
[[AC: Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' "[[SideStoryBonusArt Spin a Yarn]]" story from [[https://ww2.wizards.com/Books/mirrorstone/Article.aspx?doc=fr_spinyarn2003a 2003]]:
-> Storm shrugged. "I was acting the part of a very moral noble lady of Cormyr then."
-> "[[AristocratsAreEvil Are there any very moral noble ladies]] of Cormyr?" the Simbul asked the ceiling, but any answer Storm might have made was lost in Qilue's query, "So what did you tell the officer?"
-> Storm grinned, drew herself up, and said in an elderly, imperious, and outraged voice, "''Excuse'' me, but you want me to do ''what''?!?!?" [...] "He quickly protested that I must have misunderstood him, and that his smile was mere welcoming politeness and not a leer at all, and his question: 'So, how much, sweethips?' was an official inquiry as to the amount of rose petal scent, commonly known as 'sweethips' in Marsember -- an assertion that was and remains news to me, but gods' luck to him for swift thinking -- I was importing with me into the Forest Kingdom."
[[AC:Video Games]]
* Done subtly in ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'', when Haken introduces [[MsFanservice Kaguya]] to his father, John Moses:
-->John: Who's this? I don't think I asked for one today, but I won't say no!
* Happens quite a lot to The Princess in ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues''.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* ''OrderOfTheStick'' has a joke where Roy finds his sister, [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Julia]] after her kidnapping, and assumes from her dress sense that she had been subjected to GoGoEnslavement.
* In [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-22 this]] and the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-23 next]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-24 few]] strips of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', the fancy evening dress Dr. Bunnigus puts on for the evening is mentioned by Captain Tagon and Lt Shodan to look like she's dressing as a prostitute.
When treated as comedy, whether the mistaken-for person decks the accoster or flees there will always be a followup scene where that person asks if she really dresses like a sex worker. The answer is always Yes. Don't be surprised to find some ValuesDissonance or UnfortunateImplications here, in the form of "nice girls don't wear _____". And it doesn't necessarily have to be clothing items; this is one area where MakeUpIsEvil isn't a ForgottenTrope.
A variation is when a woman is nice to a nerdy male, who assumes she must be a prostitute looking for work because why else would any woman be nice to a nerdy male?
Compare MistakenForGay, MistakenForPregnant and pretty much every other trope in the MistakenForIndex. A female subject is often wearing
{{Stripperiffic}} fashions, males have some more flexibility on the trope dress code.
!! Examples:
[[AC: Comedy]]
* Mentioned by DaveBarry, in an anecdote where the husband complains about the wife's driving, and she snaps LetsSeeYouDoBetter. She is about to get in the back, when it occurs to her she should be in front and slams the door, at which point the husband thinks she's in and drives off. Being dressed lightly in a bad neighborhood, she gets several price offers from passing men (It all worked out in the end though).
* In an old joke, a guy at a restaurant asks the girl sitting at the next table if she could pass the salt. She screams "EXCUSE ME?! WHAT KIND OF WHORE DO YOU THINK I AM?!", mortifying him in front of the whole restaurant. A few minutes later she hands him the saltshaker, saying her previous outburst was part of a psychological experiment in social stress. He responds "250 BUCKS AND THE ROOM? WHAT KIND OF WHORE ARE YOU?"
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* This ends up being [[{{Supergirl}} Supergirl's]] first encounter with humanity. Then again with that skirt...
[[AC: Fan Fiction]]
* In the ''RanmaOneHalf'' fanfic "Sauce", this happens to Shampoo, who is for plot-related reasons on a "date" with an ugly nerd, a passerby offers her "double" to go with him instead.
* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess - [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7162960/1/AMG-1-Tabula-Rasa Tabula Rasa]]. In this reboot Keichi assumes the exotically dressed woman offering him any wish he desires must be an escort.
[[AC: Film]]
* A variation happens in ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' where Bridget goes to a "Prostitutes and Priests" themed costume party and isn't told that the costume part is off. Bridget's mother introduces her to another guest called Penny dressed in an elaborate pink number saying that she wasn't told the theme had been called off either. There is a magnificent moment of awkwardness after Penny replies that she ''was'' told.
--> '''Pamela:''' [[BlatantLies That's a lovely dress, Penny. Oriental?]]
* Inverted in ''Once Upon A Crime'', where a jaded housewife thinks a guy is paying her for sex, and to spite her gambling-addicted husband, she says she would sleep with the guy for free. It turns out he was just giving her the share of the roulette winnings for calling the right number.
* In ''Film/GodBlessAmerica'', a pedophile mistakes Roxy for a child prostitute and Frank, for her pimp.
* ''Film/LAConfidential'', when the detective mistakes the actual Lana Turner for a lookalike prostitute.
* A variant in ''Film/PhoneBooth'', where several ''strippers'' react very badly indeed to the protagonist describing them as hookers.
* This would have happened to Giselle upon arriving to New York in the original R-rated script of ''Disney/{{Enchanted}}''. Thankfully, it was cut out.
[[AC: Literature]]
* In the first book of TheSwordOfTruth, Richard and Kahlan enter an inn in a WretchedHive. Kahlan is immediately mistaken for a whore. Not wanting to cause bloodshed, she merely pretends to have a day off with Richard being hired by her.
* In the novel ''{{Neverwhere}}'', Richard initially thinks that the master bodyguard Hunter is a prostitute based on a combination of [[{{Stripperific}} how she dresses]] and the fact that she advertises that she supplies "personal physical services" (which is actually a non-sexual UnusualEuphemism).
* Happens in [[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo 1634 The Galileo Affair]] with Giovanna at a fancy dress party. Made awkward by how everyone wants to make clear that there's nothing wrong with prostitution per se. Then we learn that this is a recurring problem for Venetian Jews, who are required by law to wear yellow hats or veils in public -- the same colour as prostitutes.
* In ''Literature/StandOnZanzibar'', Bronwen is almost denied entry to Yatakang because of her [[DangerouslyShortSkirt microsari]] and the fact that her passport says she's a widow. In Yatakangi, the word "widow" is a common euphemism for "prostitute".
* In the Discworld novel ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Angua finds a notebook in Captain Vimes's quarters with a list of women's names and dollar amounts. Having spent most of the book with a rather low opinion of Vimes, she naturally assumes they're prostitutes. [[spoiler:They're widows and orphans of Watchmen.]]
* In the Esther Diamond novel ''Unsympathetic Magic'', actress Esther is playing a prostitute while filming on location in Harlem. After witnessing some terrifying magic late at night, she runs out into traffic screaming about zombies and men with swords. Unsurprisingly, the drivers who stop for her assume she's on drugs and either tell her to get out of the way or try to hire her.
* Rachel Morgan, the heroine of ''TheHollows'' series, is noted for having unfortunate dress sense. Because of the way she is dressed, she is mistaken for a hooker in the first scene of the first novel.
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* Lois in ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' gets a rather trashy makeover that she has to wear for her job. When a man asks if she's a hooker she is outraged...then she thanks him and drags him into her boss's office to convince him to let her go back to her old look.
* Happens twice to Robin in ''HowIMetYourMother''. She goes on a date with a nerd to prove something to Barney and he assumes she is a hooker. The next time happens when she sneaks into a prom by pretending to be another nerd's date.
** Earlier there is the episode "Mary The Paralegal" where Barney tells Ted he's getting him an escort for the night but he reveals to the others that she isn't. The trope is played straight at the end of the episode because Ted doesn't know.
* In ''{{Angel}}'' Cordelia is handing out business cards for their business with the ambiguous slogan "We help the helpless". One of the guys she hands them to assumes she is a hooker and Doyle is her pimp.
* In ''AshesToAshes'' [=DI=] Alex Drake arrives in 1981 dressed as a prostitute, and the entire station thinks she actually is one until she produces her warrant card.
* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' Dee is mistaken for a prostitute in the "Mac Is A Serial Killer" episode.
* In ''PrimeSuspect 1'', as soon as [=DCI=] Jane Tennison sits to have a drink in a pub with two prostitutes she's questioning, a man asks her for 15 minutes in his van parked outside.
* In a ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode, Dick is convinced that he's about to be recalled to the home planet and is worried about what will happen to Mary without him. When they're at a bar, he tries to find a man to set her up with. They're thrown out after being mistaken for a pimp and hooker.
* There's an episode of ''Series/HappyEndings'' where Alex is mistaken for a prostitute.
* In a sketch on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' a DirtyOldMan mistakes several posted advertisements as stealth prostitution ads ("small white pussycat for sale" etc.) but none of them are - except one.
-->Dirty Old Man: Which one is it? ''shopkeeper surreptitiously hands him a card. Reads'' "Blonde prostitute will indulge in any sexual activities, only 4 quid a week." [[ComicallyMissingThePoint What does that mean? ]]
* Combined with ComicallyMissingThePoint in the ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'' episode "General Hospital" after Blackadder and Nurse Mary start sleeping together.
-->Blackadder: What happened to [your boyfriend]?
-->Mary: He bought it.
-->Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that was the arrangement, um... ''(starts digging for his wallet)''
* Michelle constantly gets this in the sleepy small town of Paradise in ''Series/{{Bunheads}}''. She may have been a Las Vegas dancer, but it was always above board and she gets offended when she gets accused of doing worse.
* In an episode of ''Series/BarneyMiller'' Fish is dressed as a woman while out on purse-snatching detail and gets hit on by an old man who offers "her" money.
* Inversion on ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'': Bob is outside a Bulls game trying to sell an extra ticket and gets mistaken for a john by an undercover lady cop.
* Inverted in an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', where Kramer, dressed in the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, wearing a large fuzzy hat, and walking with a cane, tries to remove a prostitute from doing business in his car. A cop mistakes him for a pimp.
[[AC:Manga and Anime]]
* Done in [[Manga/{{Karin}} Chibi Vampire]], where [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Usui Kenta]] spots [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Karin]] in the park who, from behind, appears to be embracing a much-older man. He assumes her to be a child sex worker of some kind, when in fact she was just a vampire biting into the man's neck.
[[AC: Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' "[[SideStoryBonusArt Spin a Yarn]]" story from [[https://ww2.wizards.com/Books/mirrorstone/Article.aspx?doc=fr_spinyarn2003a 2003]]:
-> Storm shrugged. "I was acting the part of a very moral noble lady of Cormyr then."
-> "[[AristocratsAreEvil Are there any very moral noble ladies]] of Cormyr?" the Simbul asked the ceiling, but any answer Storm might have made was lost in Qilue's query, "So what did you tell the officer?"
-> Storm grinned, drew herself up, and said in an elderly, imperious, and outraged voice, "''Excuse'' me, but you want me to do ''what''?!?!?" [...] "He quickly protested that I must have misunderstood him, and that his smile was mere welcoming politeness and not a leer at all, and his question: 'So, how much, sweethips?' was an official inquiry as to the amount of rose petal scent, commonly known as 'sweethips' in Marsember -- an assertion that was and remains news to me, but gods' luck to him for swift thinking -- I was importing with me into the Forest Kingdom."
[[AC:Video Games]]
* Done subtly in ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'', when Haken introduces [[MsFanservice Kaguya]] to his father, John Moses:
-->John: Who's this? I don't think I asked for one today, but I won't say no!
* Happens quite a lot to The Princess in ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues''.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* ''OrderOfTheStick'' has a joke where Roy finds his sister, [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Julia]] after her kidnapping, and assumes from her dress sense that she had been subjected to GoGoEnslavement.
* In [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-22 this]] and the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-23 next]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-01-24 few]] strips of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', the fancy evening dress Dr. Bunnigus puts on for the evening is mentioned by Captain Tagon and Lt Shodan to look like she's dressing as a prostitute.
