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* [[Series/IClaudius Claudius]] sometimes stays with a hooker named Calpurnia, especially when Caligula was in power and staying in the royal palace was getting dangerous.
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* [[Series/IClaudius Claudius]] The title character in ''Series/IClaudius'' sometimes stays with a hooker named Calpurnia, especially when Caligula was [[TheCaligula Caligula]] is in power and staying in the royal palace was is getting dangerous.
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* Used in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/106068/1/relax/intimacy Relax]] in a rather heartwarming way. The girl allows her regular client to spend the night with her after they have sex instead of making him leave.
* Used in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/106068/1/relax/intimacy Relax]] in a rather heartwarming way. The girl allows her regular client to spend the night with her after they have sex instead of making him leave.
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* ''SinCity'' has wrongly-accused PI Dwight [=McCarthy=] on the run form the law and badly injured in the miniseries ''A Dame To Kill For''. The girls of [[RedLightDistrict Old Town]] patch him up and allow him to stay for a while. He ends up using them to get his revenge on the people who set him up.
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* ''SinCity'' has wrongly-accused PI Dwight [=McCarthy=] on the run form from the law and badly injured in after being betrayed by the miniseries title character of the story ''A Dame To Kill For''. The girls of [[RedLightDistrict Old Town]] patch him up and allow him to stay for a while. He ends up using them to get his revenge on the people who set him up.
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* In MercedesLackey's ''[[BardicVoices The Lark and the Wren]]'', the heroine is housed in a brothel; she plays music for the customers, and it is made clear that no more is expected--or wanted--from her.
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* In MercedesLackey's ''[[BardicVoices Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/BardicVoices The Lark and the Wren]]'', the heroine is housed in a brothel; she plays music for the customers, and it is made clear that no more is expected--or wanted--from her.
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* In MercedesLackey's ''The Lark and the Wren'', the heroine is housed in a brothel.
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* In MercedesLackey's ''The ''[[BardicVoices The Lark and the Wren'', Wren]]'', the heroine is housed in a brothel.brothel; she plays music for the customers, and it is made clear that no more is expected--or wanted--from her.
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* Long Susan and Homer Jackson in ''Series/RipperStreet''.
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* Kawakami Gensai (the real life inspiration for ''RurouniKenshin'') once hid out in a brothel after an assassination, and was said to look so feminine that he was able to pass for one of the girls.
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->''She found me outside one Sunday morning''
->''Begging money from a man I didn't know.''
->''She took me in and wiped away my childhood,''
->''A woman of the streets, this Lady Rose.''
-->--Music/TheStatlerBrothers, ''[[TropeNamer Bed of Rose's]]''
->''Begging money from a man I didn't know.''
->''She took me in and wiped away my childhood,''
->''A woman of the streets, this Lady Rose.''
-->--Music/TheStatlerBrothers, ''[[TropeNamer Bed of Rose's]]''
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* [[Series/IClaudius Claudius]] sometimes stays with a hooker named Calpurnia, especially when Caligula was in power and staying in the royal palace was getting dangerous.
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* There are rumours that BenitoMussolini himself during his turbulent youth (when he was a regular client of prostitutes both in Italy and abroad) lived for some time in a brothel. For free. [[TheCasanova Given his reputation throughout his adult life]], he might have had reasons.
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* In ''Discworld/GuardsGuards!'', Carrot is staying at a brothel. He has no idea of his home's true nature. He also misses the point when he tells this to someone else, and they are impressed that he can afford it, and by his stamina.
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* In ''Discworld/GuardsGuards!'', ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'', Carrot is staying at a brothel. He has no idea of his home's true nature. He also misses the point when he tells this to someone else, and they are impressed that he can afford it, and by his stamina.
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* ''HoboWithAShotgun'' the title character is taken in by a prostitute whom he rescued from the villain's son.
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* In ''[[Discworld/GuardsGuards Guards! Guards!]]'', Carrot is staying at a brothel. He has no idea of his home's true nature. He also misses the point when he tells this to someone else, and they are impressed that he can afford it, and by his stamina.
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* In ''[[Discworld/GuardsGuards Guards! Guards!]]'', ''Discworld/GuardsGuards!'', Carrot is staying at a brothel. He has no idea of his home's true nature. He also misses the point when he tells this to someone else, and they are impressed that he can afford it, and by his stamina.
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* In ''Bollywood/{{Devdas}}'' (both the novel and the numerous [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]]), Chandramukhi offers Devdas a place to stay.
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* ''OliverTwist'': Nancy, a prostitute, takes the novel's title character – a young street urchin – under her wing. Unlike most other examples on this page, there are no sexual relations between the two; Nancy's motives are pure in that she vows to reform Oliver into a respectable young man.
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* ''OliverTwist'': Nancy, a prostitute, takes the novel's title character – a young street urchin – under – under her wing. Unlike most other examples on this page, there are no sexual relations between the two; Nancy's motives are pure in that she vows to reform Oliver into a respectable young man.
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* The TropeNamer is a song by TheStatlerBrothers; a young man is taken in by the titular Lady Rose, and it's made clear that he has indeed slept with her [[AManIsNotAVirgin for the first time]].
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* The TropeNamer is a song by TheStatlerBrothers; a young man is taken in by the titular Lady Rose, and it's made clear that he has indeed slept with her [[AManIsNotAVirgin for the first time]].
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* In TheBible, in the second chapter of Joshua, the prostitute Rahab houses and protects two spies sent by Joshua, and she is commended in the book of Hebrews (11:31).
* In TheBible, in the second chapter of Joshua, the prostitute Rahab houses and protects two spies sent by Joshua, and she is commended in the book of Hebrews (11:31).
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* The ladies of Whitechapel would sometimes share rooms, and in the days leading up to her murder, JackTheRipper victim Mary Kelly shared her room with between one and two women, Julia and possibly also Maria Harvey.
* Rebels during the Boshin War often sheltered with prostitutes.
* The ladies of Whitechapel would sometimes share rooms, and in the days leading up to her murder, JackTheRipper victim Mary Kelly shared her room with between one and two women, Julia and possibly also Maria Harvey.
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* The ladies of Whitechapel would sometimes share rooms, and in the days leading up to her murder, JackTheRipper victim Mary Kelly shared her room with between one and two women, Julia and possibly also Maria
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* In ''[[Discworld/GuardsGuards Guards! Guards!]]'', Carrot is staying at a brothel. He has no idea of his home's true nature.
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* "Oliver Twist": Nancy, a prostitute, takes the novel's title character – a young street urchin – under her wing. Unlike most other examples on this page, there are no sexual relations between the two; Nancy's motives are pure in that she vows to reform Oliver into a respectable young man.
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* "Oliver Twist": ''OliverTwist'': Nancy, a prostitute, takes the novel's title character – a young street urchin – under her wing. Unlike most other examples on this page, there are no sexual relations between the two; Nancy's motives are pure in that she vows to reform Oliver into a respectable young man.
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* ''DeadMan'' has William Blake taken in by a former prostitute who is trying to make a living selling paper roses.
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* ''TradingPlaces'' has Louis Winthorpe III taken in by Orphellia, a streetwise hooker.
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* ''HoboWithAShotgun'' the title character is taken in by a prostitute whom he rescued from the villain's son.
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* In the novel, ''The Thief and the Dogs,'' by Naguib Mahfouz, Said runs from law enforcement after attempting to murder his old friend, Ilish Sidra. He hides for the next several days with his old friend, [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Nur, who just so happens to be a prostitute.]] "Intimate" relations between the two are implied.
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* In ''The Third Life of Grange Copeland,'' Brownfield winds up staying at a brothel when he gives up searching for his father. It turns out the prostitute was his father's ex-lover, [[LoveFatherLoveSon and he sleeps with her too]]. And her daughter, who's another prostitute. And then he marries her non-prostitute niece and the father comes back and marries the first prostitute and really it's just a big, dysfunctional mess.
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* In ''The Third Life of Grange Copeland,'' Brownfield winds up staying at a brothel when he gives up searching for his father. It turns out the prostitute was his father's ex-lover, [[LoveFatherLoveSon and he sleeps with her too]]. And her daughter, who's another prostitute. And then he marries her non-prostitute niece and the father comes back and marries the first prostitute and really it's just a big, dysfunctional mess. mess.
* It's mentioned in one of the AubreyMaturin books that Stephen Maturin stayed in one of the brothels in Jakarta, where the ship is docked on a diplomatic mission, because it was simply the cheapest place to stay, not to mention convenient for carrying out [[TheSpymaster his trade]]. The girl he shares the bed with is only initially surprised that he's not interested in sex. The crew of the ship, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny naturally]], don't know about his job as Britain's premier spy and come to the obvious conclusion about his, er, stamina and prowess.
* It's mentioned in one of the AubreyMaturin books that Stephen Maturin stayed in one of the brothels in Jakarta, where the ship is docked on a diplomatic mission, because it was simply the cheapest place to stay, not to mention convenient for carrying out [[TheSpymaster his trade]]. The girl he shares the bed with is only initially surprised that he's not interested in sex. The crew of the ship, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny naturally]], don't know about his job as Britain's premier spy and come to the obvious conclusion about his, er, stamina and prowess.
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* In ''{{Devdas}}'' (both the novel and the numerous [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]]), Chandramukhi offers Devdas a place to stay.
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* The TropeNamer is a song by TheStatlerBrothers; a young man is taken in by the titular Lady Rose, and it's made clear that he has indeed slept with her.
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* The TropeNamer is a song by TheStatlerBrothers; a young man is taken in by the titular Lady Rose, and it's made clear that he has indeed slept with her.her [[AManIsNotAVirgin for the first time]].
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* In ''FirstRidersCall'' by Kristen Britain, Karigan G'ladheon stays the night at a brothel. Unfortunately for her, she happens to be staying in the same room as Trudy, a prostitute who only caters to lesbians. The morning after, Trudy won't stop implying to Karigan's friends that they, ahem, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean had relations]].
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* In ''FirstRidersCall'' by Kristen Britain, Karigan G'ladheon stays the night at a brothel. Unfortunately for her, she happens to be staying in the same room as Trudy, a prostitute who only caters to lesbians. The morning after, Trudy won't stop implying to Karigan's friends that they, ahem, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean had relations]].relations.
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* In ''The Third Life of Grange Copeland,'' Brownfield winds up staying at a brothel when he gives up searching for his father. It turns out the prostitute was his father's ex-lover, [[LoveFatherLoveSon and he sleeps with her too]]. And her daughter, who's another prostitute. And then he marries her non-prostitute niece and the father comes back and marries the first prostitute and really it's just a big, dysfunctional mess.
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* In TheBible, in the second chapter of Joshua, the prostitute Rahab houses and protects two spies sent by Joshua, and she is commended in the book of Hebrews (11:31).
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* ''SinCity'' has wrongly-accused PI Dwight [=McCarthy=] on the run form the law and badly injured in the miniseries ''A Dame To Kill For''. The girls of [[RedLightDistrict Old Town]] patch him up and allow him to stay for a while. He ends up using them to get his revenge on the people who set him up.
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* ''TradingPlaces'' has Louis Winthorpe III taken in by Orphellia, a streetwise hooker.
* ''LeavingLasVegas'' has Nicholas Cage's character taken in by Elizabeth Shue's, another streetwise hooker.
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* In MercedesLackey's ''The Lark and the Wren'', the heroine is housed in a brothel.
* In ''[[Discworld/GuardsGuards Guards! Guards!]]'', Carrot is staying at a brothel. He has no idea of his home's true nature.
* In ''FirstRidersCall'' by Kristen Britain, Karigan G'ladheon stays the night at a brothel. Unfortunately for her, she happens to be staying in the same room as Trudy, a prostitute who only caters to lesbians. The morning after, Trudy won't stop implying to Karigan's friends that they, ahem, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean had relations]].
* In ''{{Devdas}}'' (both the novel and the numerous [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]]), Chandramukhi offers Devdas a place to stay.
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* The TropeNamer is a song by TheStatlerBrothers; a young man is taken in by the titular Lady Rose, and it's made clear that he has indeed slept with her.
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* The ladies of Whitechapel would sometimes share rooms, and in the days leading up to her murder, JackTheRipper victim Mary Kelly shared her room with between one and two women, Julia and possibly also Maria Harvey.
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