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| 6 | ->''"She's 'furniture'."'' |
| 7 | -->-- ''Film/SoylentGreen'' |
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| 9 | Simply put, this is a character who has been MadeASlave for the sexual desires of others. This happens especially often in {{Dystopia}}, TheEmpire, and the darker versions of FetishFuelFuture, either to [[CrapsackWorld show how much the world sucks]], or, well, [[RomanticizedAbuse just because]]. In the former kind, the Sex Slave is rarely a protagonist. At best, she's a DamselInDistress for the hero to rescue. At worst she only exists as a narrative tool to show the audience that this is indeed a NoWomansLand. In the RomanticizedAbuse kind, however, she ([[LadyLand or]] [[EqualOpportunityEvil he]]) is usually the protagonist. In that case, expect PropertyOfLove and FreedomFromChoice to come along with HappinessInSlavery. |
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| 11 | The contrast between some of the more [[{{Fanservice}} risque aspects]] of this trope and the CrapsackWorld environment it usually occurs in can often create UnfortunateImplications. In some works, the slavery can develop into a [[PropertyOfLove mutual relationship]]. Expect BatheHerAndBringHerToMe, GoGoEnslavement, and/or a SlaveCollar. Compare SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil. |
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| 13 | Unfortunately, this is TruthInTelevision, although [[NoYay generally]] [[{{Squick}} quite]] [[SickAndWrong different]] from the fetishised fantasy. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_prostitution Forced prostitution]] in general amounts to this. HumanTrafficking in particular is one of the biggest ways that people are enslaved like this. |
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| 15 | As with all SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' |
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| 18 | !!Examples: |
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| 21 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 22 | * Much of the plot of ''Literature/AiNoKusabi'' revolves around how Riki was forcibly [[MadeASlave Made A Sex Slave]] as a "Pet" and the effect it has on him, his master, and his ex-lover. |
| 23 | * This is what actually happened to [[spoiler:Shiro Masuda aka Amakusa]] in ''Manga/Amakusa1637''. More exactly, [[spoiler:Shiro is captured and given as a slave to Naozumi, an already emotionally unstable {{Time Travel}}er, who made him his forced lover due to Shirou [[IdenticalStranger being identical]] to Natsuki, Naozumi's UnrequitedLove. According to Naozumi's own testimony, [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Shirou]] first attempted to understand his "lord"'s broken psyche via speaking to him politely and gently, then tried to [[PleaseIWillDoAnything use this to try helping his fellow Christians]]... but when Naozumi realized [[LimaSyndrome that he was starting to fall for Shirou]], he strangled the poor kid to death, and then threw his lifeless body into the sea.]] |
| 24 | * In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', this happened to both Guts and Casca in their childhoods. Guts was sold by his adoptive father Gambino to the mercenary Donovan for one night for three silver coins, leading to his traumatic rape. Casca was sold by her parents to a noble who wanted a new serving girl, only for it to turn out that this was what he wanted her for. She was saved by Griffith before the bastard could rape her, but Griffith made her [[AccidentalPun finish him off herself.]] [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the very same Griffith would later rape her himself after getting hooked on TheDarkSide.]] |
| 25 | * ''Manga/BlackButler II'': Episode 8 reveals that [[spoiler:old man Trancy captured many [[PaedoHunt young boys]] to choose sex slaves from, raped most of them, and Alois ended up being his favorite sex slave right up until either he died of old age, or Alois killed him.]] Also, the flashbacks in the manga to when [[spoiler:Ciel is kept as a self-described 'pet' to the cult members]] has several panels that suggest this probably happened to him. |
| 26 | * What Chaka wanted to do to Yukio in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', after stripping her of power within the Washimine clan. Ginji, Rock, and Revy stop him, though. [[spoiler:And Ginji gives him a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Cruel And Unusual]] KarmicDeath.]] |
| 27 | * ''Manga/BlueDrop'': Tenchi no Bokura had school girls as sex slaves. To the teachers. The school ''claimed'' to be teaching them the usual things, but the real purpose was to teach the all-female students to be sex slaves to their lesbian alien conquerors and be utterly alien to the concept of sex with men. |
| 28 | * One of the many uses of the ''Manga/DearS''. Takeya [[AboveTheInfluence isn't happy]] when Ren offers to fulfill her function for him. |
| 29 | * ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': |
| 30 | ** In the manga version, the group enters a LadyLand, and the [[DisguisedInDrag guys must dress like women]] to get through safely. |
| 31 | ** One of the omakes in the OVA takes it to a more comedic level. A drag-queen Mitsukake apparently looks disgusting enough to have his face censored and make the rest of the cast BlueWithShock, and is still singled out to become the Sex Slave. Then Tamahome and Tasuki drop their disguises and willingly and gleefuly volunteer to become slaves themselves, much to Miaka's chargin. |
| 32 | ** Also, Soi was sold to a brothel by her impoverished family when she was a little girl. At the age of 12, she is [[AttemptedRape about to be]] [[RapeAsDrama punished]] by her pimp for refusing to have sex with a client, but is rescued by Nakago. (She is also "used" by him for her sexual healing powers, but does so willingly out of love, [[LoveMartyr even knowing that the love is more or less one-sided.]]) |
| 33 | ** The emperor of Kutou kept Nakago as a sex slave [[RapeAsBackstory in the past]]. This is Nakago's StartOfDarkness. |
| 34 | ** This is implied to be what the slave traders truly want to do to Miaka and Yui in the beginning. Miaka tries to fight back, but is overpowered, and then [[BigDamnHeroes Tamahome]] steps in. |
| 35 | %%* [[spoiler:Tsubaki]] from ''Manga/FutureDiary''. |
| 36 | * ''Almost'' happens to Kurumi Akino in ''Manga/HaouAiren''. When she has a HeroicBSOD and tries to run away from Hakuron in the middle of Hong Kong, she's captured by some Triad members who intend to sell her as one; then, they strip and almost rape her. Hakuron finds them and shoots them to death, then takes Kurumi to safety. |
| 37 | * In ''Anime/LegendOfTheBlueWolves'' Captain Continental has many sex slaves and tries to make Jonathan into one as well. Jonathan refuses so Captain Continental rapes him. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'': [[spoiler:The fate of those who lose the tournament is to be {{Mind Rape}}d into mindlessness and then sold into sexual slavery. This drives the CycleOfRevenge in the series in general.]] |
| 39 | * Underclassmen at Garderobe Academy in ''Anime/MyOtome'' are given to the [[OneeSama Onee-samas]] as "room attendants." One student states, when explaining the system, that the kohai ''could'' be made to have sex for the OneeSama, complete with ImagineSpot. |
| 40 | %%* Ayase in the BoysLoveGenre ''Manga/OkaneGaNai''. |
| 41 | * In the ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'' manga, the old merchant Yamatoya makes Suzu his sex slave after Suzu's master was killed and he was left all alone starving in the streets. Suzu wasn't the only one, however — two twin kitty boys were also picked up by him for this purpose. |
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| 45 | * In ''Sensitive Pornograph'', Aki-chan is this to his abusive boyfriend. [[spoiler:After being dumped, battered, and thrown out for having sex with the UnluckyEverydude who came in expecting a pet rabbit to look after, Aki-chan ends up in a new relationship with said UnluckyEverydude.]] |
| 46 | * In ''Manga/{{Shitsurakuen}}'', this is mostly FridgeLogic, since we don't see what the boys do to their girls in the off-hours. Ironically, the one unambiguous case is the ''heroine's'' encounter with Reiko, as part of a BatmanGambit to save her. |
| 47 | * [[AxCrazy Legato]] [[TheDragon Bluesummers]] from the ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' manga was revealed to have been one in his past... until Knives happened upon the town Legato was in and massacred everyone. Legato managed to use his strings to stop Knives from killing him at the same time, and then said he was going to let him go, so he could kill him if he wanted, but please don't. Knives decided he was interesting, and asked [[TheNameless his name]], and [[MadLove the rest is history]]. This notably explains Legato's insane loyalty in the face of Knives' indifference and cruelty in really depressing terms: Knives isn't ''good'' to him, but he's better than anyone else ever was. |
| 48 | * Being reduced to this drove [[spoiler:Mai Kamio]] insane to the point of [[spoiler:a FaceHeelTurn]] in ''Manga/VideoGirlAi''. |
| 49 | %%* Askeladd's mother in ''Manga/VinlandSaga''. |
| 50 | %%* ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' OVA has something like in one episode. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/Yuria100Shiki'': If [[{{Sexbot}} Dutch Wife]] Yuria has sex with someone, and she automatically becomes programmed to become said person's sex slave. |
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| 54 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 55 | * ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': |
| 56 | ** Ninjette was intended as one for her clan. Training her to be a badass {{ninja}} first was probably a bad idea. Her clan's intended use for her isn't as a sex slave per se; the forced sex would have been "merely" a necessary prerequisite for her bearing [[AsianBabyMama lots of ninja babies]]. |
| 57 | ** Emp herself was nearly taken as one, but the Robot sent to capture her decided her butt was too big. [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe She was more devastated by the insult than her good fortune]]. |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulkFutureImperfect'', the ComicBook/{{Maestro}}, [[FutureMeScaresMe an older and evil version of the Hulk from an alternate future]], rules the world and keeps a harem of slave girls for this purpose. |
| 59 | * ComicBook/NormanOsborn has human trafficking connections of this type. In one issue of ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'', he threatens Mystique by telling her he knows of an upper-class brothel in Dubai where the men would pay top dollar for sex with a {{Shapeshifter}}. (For those who he think he was bluffing, check out his own page.) |
| 60 | * "The Slavers", an arc in ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'', has Frank Castle taking on a slave-trafficking ring. The horrible things that the slavers do to the people they've enslaved hits every one of Castle's {{Berserk Button}}s concerning mistreatment of women and children in general, resulting in [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge one of his most brutal killing sprees]]. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In the backstory Diana's mother Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, was once enslaved by the demi-god Heracles ([[DivineConflict sent by Ares in his war against Athena]]) along with her people for his sexual desires. Athena freed Hippolyta on the condition that [[WomenAreWiser she would not seek revenge]], but Heracles escaped anyway. |
| 62 | * In part 2 of ''Druuna: Morbus Gravis'', Druuna and a young bald woman are "rescued" from the wastelands by the fascistic soldiers who police the ruined city. Druuna wakes up in the commander's bed, and after asking him what happened to the girl she was with, is shown evidence that the girl has been forced into sexual slavery. Meanwhile, Druuna herself is offered "protection" by the commander in exchange for sexual services – [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse the alternative being death]]. |
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| 65 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 66 | * In ''Fanfic/ChaosIsVeryGood'', Discord threatens to do this to Luna. |
| 67 | * The ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5502176/1 Freedom To The Free]]'' has Simon forced into this when he, Wash and Kaylee are enslaved. Simon is mentally scarred by it but lets the master use him because he’s protecting Kaylee from threats to rape her if he doesn’t comply. |
| 68 | * ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': |
| 69 | ** [[HeManWomanHater Vault]] and the Black Dogs aim to build a regime named the Sex [[TheEmpire Empire]], where the women would "cook, clean and fuck" whenever they are told to. They plan on starting with Olga, Chloe and the dark elves after they take over the Black Fortress, moving on to the women in the south. |
| 70 | ** It turns out that Vault and the Black Dogs are not the first group of people to think of this idea. When Lily was preparing to be [[NobleProfession ordained]], she had heard tales of slavers picking the "choicest" women to sell people rich enough to purchase them. And since slavery was a crime often went unpunished in the country even before Vault's conquest... |
| 71 | ** [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] for Grace, who [[MadeASlave became]] one of the slaver Morgan's "products" after [[YouCantGoHomeAgain being displaced from her homeland]], later tossed aside when she had fulfilled her uses. |
| 72 | ** Chapter 24 reveals that House Mandeville practises [[HumanTraffickers dark elf trafficking]], particularly dark elf slaves waiting to be transported to the GrimUpNorth for Vault's taking, so sexual labour is obviously involved. |
| 73 | ** [[spoiler:Chloe, [[ChildByRape conceived via a human male raping a dark elf female]]]]. The father is later revealed to be [[spoiler:John Mandeville]], whose house was involved in the dark elf slave trade centuries ago, the reason why [[spoiler:Chloe]], her mother, and many other dark elves were taken as slaves to be entertainment. [[spoiler:And then [[FromBadToWorse Mandeville manages to have Chloe in his grasp once more]].]] |
| 74 | * ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'': Meromi Riyal, first officer of the IKS ''mupwI[='=]'', was one of the 1,500 Orion slave girls given to the Great Houses of the Klingon Empire by the Orion Syndicate at the signing of the Treaty of Ter'jas Mor.[[note]]It's part of ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline's'' backstory.[[/note]] She decided she'd had enough of Klingon sex and escaped into the Qo'noS underground where she joined a smuggling ring. |
| 75 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Malleus's slaves, who also doubled as {{Breeding Slave}}s, as said: |
| 76 | --> To Malleus, the poor girls chained naked to the walls were nothing but objects of convenience, there to sate his lusts and produce offspring. |
| 77 | * In ''Fanfic/FallOfStarfleetRebirthOfFriendship'', [[NeutralFemale Starla Shine]] is kidnapped by [[BigBad Dark Conquest]] and raped repeatedly. However, while imprisoned in his base, she grows as a person and [[spoiler:eventually leads a massive slave escape]]. |
| 78 | * In ''Fanfic/TheresNoOneLikeYou'', the [[HellHotel Siren Hotel]] is used as a front for a sex ring by nefarious businessmen, led by [[spoiler:Odalia Blight. Their ''numerous'' victims include Hunter Wittebane and Amity Blight. Amity especially was groomed for years by her [[AbusiveParents mother]]. None of them remember it due to the memory-wiping drugs they are supplied with]]. |
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| 81 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 82 | %%* Some of the replicants in ''Film/BladeRunner''. |
| 83 | * ''Film/BlueVelvet'': Dorothy Vallens is forced into this role after her child and husband are kidnapped by a local crime-boss Frank. Eventually, she develops a sort of UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome and seems to take a twisted pleasure in Frank's rape at one point. |
| 84 | * ''Film/{{Deadgirl}}'': The titular zombie girl is used as a sex slave after a pair of teens discover her chained in the basement of an abandoned mental hospital. The discovery that she is undead only provokes her captors into even [[ILoveTheDead further depravity]]. |
| 85 | * In ''Film/DonJuanDemarco'', the titular mental patient relates a yarn about spending a year in the 'service' of a lusty Sultana. Not that he seems to've minded much. It probably helped that she kept him hidden in the Sultan's harem (apparently she didn't mind sharing.) |
| 86 | * In ''Film/HitlersMadman'', super-evil Nazi [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich Reinhard Heydrich]] has the prettiest girls of the village of Lidice lined up against a wall. He picks the ones he likes best and has them sent off to the Eastern Front to be sex slaves in German brothels. |
| 87 | * This is the whole premise of the film ''Film/HumanTrafficking'' - the trafficking happens only to get sex slaves. |
| 88 | * ''Film/MachoDancer'': Noel's fears are proven true: his sister, Pining, was trafficked and forced to work at a brothel in Manila. She services clients at all hours of the day and will be trapped for three years. Noel is able to free her but at the cost of his life. |
| 89 | * ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': Tanya is forced into this lifestyle when her {{jerkass}} lover sells her off for payment of guns. She becomes the infamous "Spot White", the main hostess of the "Jardin d'Orient" brothel. The film is a rare case where the sex slave is the main character ''and'' not in a RomanticizedAbuse kind of situation. |
| 90 | * In ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'', this is the sickening [[FateWorseThanDeath fate]] of [[spoiler:[[IHaveYourWife the hero's wife]] ''and'' [[{{Squick}} his child]].]] |
| 91 | * Three or four unfortunate young blondes are locked in an attic as forced prostitutes in ''Film/TheSinfulDwarf''. |
| 92 | * The "Furniture Girls" in ''Film/SoylentGreen''. The one owned by the murder victim even becomes the love interest of Ty Thorn. |
| 93 | * Similar to the Orion girls from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' are the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Twi'lek girls]] from ''Franchise/StarWars''. According to the ExpandedUniverse they actually encourage sexual slavery: since they have no spacecraft of their own, becoming sex slaves is their primary method of going offworld, with the plan of freeing themselves to get a real job at some point. However, they don't seem to be doing a very good job as it's been this way for thousands of years. |
| 94 | * ''Film/TheStreetFighter'': Because the guy who hired him didn't have enough money to pay him for the job he did for him, Terry sent the guy out the window and then sold the guy's sister into sexual slavery. It's quite the dick move on Terry's part, cementing him as a ''very'' dark antihero, and when the sister gets out of this, she is very much pissed at Terry and goes after him for revenge. |
| 95 | %%* The heroines of ''Film/SuckerPunch'', in two of the film's realities. |
| 96 | * In ''Film/{{Taken}}'', the PapaWolf main character must pretty much race against the clock to make sure his kidnapped daughter won't be sold into sex slavery. [[spoiler: He's too late to save the daughter's best friend, but ''does'' manage to save his child.]] |
| 97 | * In ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', Lilia is blackmailed into this position via ScarpiaUltimatum by Dathan, who promises not to have Joshua executed if she agrees to it ''and'' tells anyone who asks that it's consensual. Despite [[{{Jerkass}} the type of man Dathan has proven to be thus far]], he keeps his end of the bargain. |
| 98 | * In ''Film/ThreeAmigos'', El Guapo kidnaps Carmen and it's made abundantly clear that it's for this purpose, going so far that as to have another woman "instruct" her on it. However, he rejects [[TheDragon Jefe's]] suggestion of simply forcing himself on her and prefers to wait until she's willing...or he'll kill her. And, yes, [[BlackComedyRape this is all played for laughs.]] |
| 99 | * In ''Film/WhenTaekwondoStrikes'', the members of the Bansan Karate School, a ThugDojo that's a front for the Japanese Secret Service, kidnap Korean women for use as comfort women. |
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| 102 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 103 | * A.N. Roquelaure's ''Beauty'' series features more of a sexual indentured servitude. Before they're permitted to take rulership, young nobility and royalty are sent into training as sexual slaves. It's also a means a social mobility, as commoners and lesser nobles may also submit themselves for the same treatment. Slaves may also beg to remain so for life. |
| 104 | * Creator/PiersAnthony invokes this in ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'', where the hero's older sister Faith gives herself up to pirates as a sex slave in order to save her fellow refugees from being destroyed. Even more dispiriting than it sounds, since the family had fled the planet to protect Faith from being raped in the first place. |
| 105 | * In J.R. Ward's ''Literature/BlackDaggerBrotherhood'' series, we learn that Zsadist, kidnapped by his nanny as an infant, was sold into slavery and eventually used as a sex/blood slave by a sadistic mistress. Zsadist is eventually rescued by his twin brother, Phury, and kills his mistress but suffers intense psychological damage. He is considered souless by his fellow Brothers, and dangerous. His book in the series involves him falling in love with a woman and having to overcome (well, not completely) his past. |
| 106 | * ''Literature/BlackJewels'': |
| 107 | ** Ttwo of the three main male good guys were pleasure slaves in Courts in Tereille. Aside from Daemon and Lucivar, there's also Jared (pre-Invisible Ring) and a small army of others. |
| 108 | ** Jaenelle and the Briarwood girls also count, being kept in a secure facility, drugged, and used for sex on a regular basis. |
| 109 | * The Red Temple in Fred Saberhagen's ''Literature/BooksOfSwords'' series is known to use sex slaves among its prostitutes, and the Silver Queen sells her own daughter into slavery to the Red Temple for this purpose. Arian is rescued by Baron Doon and his party before she actually gets to the Red Temple or is raped, but things don't end well. |
| 110 | * In Nora Keller's ''Literature/ComfortWoman'', Akiko was forced to serve as a military "comfort woman," a sex slave provided to troops during the Japanese occupation of Korea in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Her daughter Beccah does not know of this history, and as she learns of it, she comes to understand her mother's apparently strange ways. |
| 111 | * Creator/RobertEHoward's ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' has rescued his share of slave girls in his day, such as Olivia from Shah Amurath in ''Literature/IronShadowsInTheMoon''. |
| 112 | ** In "Literature/XuthalOfTheDusk", Thalis tells Conan to kill Natala because unlike her, she is too soft to survive the sexual demands of the men in the city. |
| 113 | ** And in ''Literature/ThePeopleOfTheBlackCircle'' Yasmina is forced to [[BreakTheHaughty remember]] past lives of this: |
| 114 | --->''She reeled naked and bleeding over burning sands, dragged at the slaver's stirrup, and she knew the grip of hot, fierce hands on her writhing flesh, the shame and agony of brutal lust.'' |
| 115 | ** In ''Literature/AWitchShallBeBorn'', one of the luxuries Salome is after is "handsome men and soft women for my paramours and my slaves." |
| 116 | %%* Vlad Tepes' younger brother Radu is this to the Ottoman army in ''Literature/CountAndCountess''. |
| 117 | * In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', this is the Count's cover story for Haydee's presence. It also helps him to justify why a man of his standing isn't courting women. |
| 118 | * ''Literature/TheDraka'': The Draka revel in this trope, with "bedwenches" and "prettybucks" (male serfs "for men so inclined"). At the same time, sex between female Draka and male serfs is forbidden, as are homosexual relations between male Draka. [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Instead female Draka get it on with]] [[AuthorAppeal other female Draka or female serfs.]] After the Draka developed perfect contraception and switched to using serf women to carry Draka fetuses female Draka were allowed to have male sex slaves. And the genetically engineered 'new race' is altered to be universally bisexual, apparently. |
| 119 | * The White Court's human thralls in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. It should be noted that most of them are essentially brainwashed. |
| 120 | * The Imperium in ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' allows the possession of sex slaves. The Emperor is allowed to have slave-concubines, Baron Harkonnen uses a slave boy as one, and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen spends a lot of his time with the women in the Baron's slave quarters. |
| 121 | * In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/HorusHeresy novel ''False Gods'', Maggard is sexually exploited by his mistress, on top of having his vocal cords removed because it was unfitting for him to speak in his mistress's presence. |
| 122 | %%* Davy in ''Literature/TheFemaleMan'' |
| 123 | * In ''The Fifth Sacred Thing,'' by Starhawk, post-eco-apocalypse Southern California is ruled by a high-tech religious dictatorship with gene-engineered slave castes, one of which is bred exclusively for sexual entertainment. In one scene, the protagonist Madrone, a witch-healer from the neopagan utopia around San Francisco, is forced by circumstances to share a cot with a five-year-old girl of that caste. The child tries to touch Madrone sexually and, when gently rebuffed, has a temper tantrum -- because she has been frustrated in the only only way she knows of to get approval from adults. Madrone, when she is told about the girl's background, and that these sex-slaves' owners can do ''anything at all'' to them, remarks, "I was raised not to believe in evil. But I can't think of any other name for this." |
| 124 | %%* Romanticized in John Norman's ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' series. |
| 125 | * ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' has a main character who is the sex slave (more specifically, a ''breeding'' slave) of a military commander. |
| 126 | * ''Literature/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'': |
| 127 | ** Sex slaves are a common trade for people who have the money. They are typically females and sold as virgins as a guarantee that there will be no communicable diseases to worry about. Some do double as combat slaves, and biologically speaking if the slave and master are different species is there is no chance of HalfHumanHybrid children being produced. |
| 128 | ** On a more specific case, Michio Kaga has gained five such slaves over the course of the series. None are human like him, but besides having the title of slave, they are each treated more akin to a beloved spouse. He gifts them all fine clothes, warm food, good equipment, and kindness most have never experienced. He treats them as equals and values their opinions. They all love him deeply in response and are wholly devoted to him as a result. |
| 129 | * Manpower Incorporated's c-line genetic slaves in the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' books, which was the origin of a handful of secondary characters including Virginia Usher and Elaine Kormandorski ([[spoiler: otherwise known as Lady Georgia Young, Countess North Hollow) ]]. |
| 130 | * This turns out to be common in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' as the fate of [[spoiler:physically attractive winners of [[DeadlyGame the Hunger Games]]. The money made from renting them out goes straight to President Snow, but they typically cooperate anyways so as to avoid "accidents" happening to their families. Finnick manages to use this to collect information from the powerful people who purchase him, and after joining the rebels he reveals all the Capitol's dirty laundry in a television broadcast.]] |
| 131 | * ''Literature/TheOdyssey'': This happened to Odysseus on the final phase of his journey home, courtesy of Calypso; she ''tried'' to make him love her, but was still forcing him to be her lover against his will eventually letting him go when it proved hopeless. Depending on the version it was also the case with Circe; if anything, he was forced to give in to a ScarpiaUltimatum as part of the deal release his men who [[ForcedTransformation she had turned to swine.]] |
| 132 | * Is a main plot point of the Creator/JohnRingo ''Literature/PaladinOfShadows'' series, an extremely guilty pleasure for both the reader ''and'' the writer. |
| 133 | * A type of sexual slavery shows up in a lot of Werewolf fiction, such as the ''Literature/MercyThompson'' and ''Literature/KittyNorville'' novels. The alpha can have sex with any female he wants, and/or decide the lowest female in the pack can be given to other males as reward and the female has to take it. |
| 134 | * Catarina from ''Literature/LostVoices'' was sold for cigarettes and vodka by her parents to people who used her a sex slave before her transformation into a mermaid. Because of everything that was done to her, Catarina hates humans more than almost any other mermaid, and refuses to entertain the idea of making peace with such evil creatures. |
| 135 | * In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the city Yunkai in the Slaver's Bay region is famed for its pleasure slaves trained in the ways of the "seven sighs" and the "sixteen seats of pleasure." |
| 136 | %%* Several female characters, most notably Susan Stern and Dayna Jurgens, share this origin story in ''Literature/TheStand''. |
| 137 | * ''Literature/TechnicHistory'': In ''A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows'', a major character is sold into prostitution by her political enemies. |
| 138 | * Jo Walton's ''Literature/ToothAndClaw'' suggests that even dragons may sink this low. Sebeth, Avan's clerk, was (or claimed to be) the daughter of an Eminent Lord, kidnapped as a child, and, when her father refused to pay the ransom, forced into prostitution until she managed to kill her captor and escape. |
| 139 | * ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': |
| 140 | ** There are two types for female slaves: |
| 141 | *** Female Tourists, who are captured into slavery: "You may well be annoyed to find how little your new owner pays for you, but this is the Management's way of protecting you from rape, beatings, and other hardships." |
| 142 | *** Girls of a RoyalHarem, and the sex they have is never forced: "Beautiful young women. You will find these in droves in the FANATIC CALIPHATES and sometimes in the PALACES of bad KINGS. Their duties are light and pleasant and are: looking beautiful, bathing and massaging visitors, singing and dancing, and, for male Tourists, providing company in bed. None of them seem unhappy in their work and they show no desire to escape. [...] Often male Tourists will sympathize with the plight of such Slaves, nobly reject their offer of free, no-holds-barred SEX, insist on assisting them to escape from the exploitative tyranny under which they have been existing, and then, having obviously done them a Good Turn, have free, no-holds-barred Sex before stranding them in the middle of nowhere to make their way thousands of miles back to their own COUNTRY." |
| 143 | ** Male slaves are "used by bad KINGS, FANATIC CALIPHATES, and some WIZARDS in large numbers as GUARDS, attendants, fan-bearers, waiters and entertainment, and for SEX." |
| 144 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the ''Literature/WarchildSeries''. The pirates take prisoners and sometimes recruit children as geishas, which are only loosely based on the old customs. Mostly, they are sex slaves and sometimes assassins. In the first book, the main character was a prisoner whom the BigBad intended to turn into one of these. He escapes without much of the training (but a lot of the abuse). It's not until the third book that one of these slaves becomes a main character. This is not played for {{Fanservice}}, but rather {{deconstruct|ion}}ed to show the psychological ramifications related to such an existence. Very [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] portrayal, really. |
| 145 | * Paolo Bacigalupi's ''Literature/TheWindupGirl'' features Emiko, a Japanese Windup abandoned by her master in a {{dystopia}}n Bangkok. Windups, or "New People," are genetically altered to have an irrepressible instinct to please and have been trained from birth that they are in a position of servitude. While revered in Japan as works of art and strong workers, they are hated in Bangkok and, in order to avoid being picked up by police and incinerated, Emiko is forced to work in a sex club, where she is routinely humiliated and abused. Also, Emiko's body has been genetically engineered to feel orgasm automatically under sexual stimulation. When she is raped, she actually ''comes'' - hating every moment of it and despising herself for it. Enjoy your BrainBleach. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 149 | * In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', one of the many signs that the ''Pegasus'' crew have crossed the MoralEventHorizon is their use of a captured Number Six Cylon as a sex slave. |
| 150 | * Warren's ex-girlfriend Katrina in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' almost became this when the Trio (a trio of villainous college-aged nerds turned {{mad scientist}}s) tested their mind control ray on her. She fought off the mind control before anything could happen, and Warren killed her in the ensuing struggle. When setting up their grand scheme, their plans included [[{{Glamour}} Conjure Fake I.D.s]], Girls, [[AllMenArePerverts Girls]], The Gorilla Thing, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and Make Buffy Their Sex Slave]]. |
| 151 | * ''Series/TheCommish'' also has an episode where a 15 year old girl (who used to be the babysitter of the Commisioner's son) is forced into doing porno films. ''And'' pleasing the boss. |
| 152 | * In ''Series/DantesCove'', Ambrosius [[IHaveYourWife holds Toby hostage]] to force Kevin to become his sex slave. Later, Griff uses his influence with the Tresum Council to try to get Grace to submit to him similarly, but she outwits him. |
| 153 | * Every Active in ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' is used for this frequently. They are [[BrainUploading overwritten with new personalities]] and then hired out to clients, many of whom (though not all) specifically do so to indulge in romantic fantasies. While the Actives' original personalities effectively signed a contract to be used as sex slaves with the Dollhouse beforehand, it's only offered to people who were in some sort of dire straits, nor would such an agreement hold up in any modern court of law. |
| 154 | * ''Series/{{Engrenages}}'': One of the major plots of the third season has Laure and the other cops going up against a gang of Albanian pimps who keep their trafficked women as virtual prisoners in a sleazy motel, keep all the money they earn, and react to any hint of rebellion by brutally torturing them or handing them over to a local SerialKiller to be murdered. [[spoiler:They even kill one of them in a [[JackTheRipoff copycat murder]] when the killer gets arrested, so that he'll be thought innocent and let out of jail to continue working as their ultimate sanction.]] |
| 155 | * Though we don't see it directly in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', it is implied that the sexual slave trade is around. When Mal discovers River in Simon's cryo box, the first thing he assumes is that Simon is smuggling her to be sold to a Border-world baron. |
| 156 | * Zev (or [[TheNthDoctor Xev]]) of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' was going to be made one of these, but she broke free before the mental reconditioning was implemented. This conditioning was inflicted instead on 790, the robot drone overseeing the operation. Since the conditioning resulted in the victim falling hopelessly in love with the first person s/he saw next, 790 became obsessed with Zev, devoting himself to her completely. |
| 157 | * ''Series/LostGirl'' plays with this: the closest anyone comes to using the word "slave" to describe Lauren is when she refers to herself as the Ash's property, even though she clearly is a slave, even to the point of wearing a SlaveCollar. She nevertheless enjoys a great deal of prestige within the fae community, and is primarily valuable as a slave for her medical expertise. All the same, when it suits his purpose, the Ash orders her to seduce and sleep with Bo, even though it ends up wrecking her relationship with Bo when she finds out that that was why Lauren slept with her. |
| 158 | * The final series of the ''Series/MurphysLaw'' revolves around the search for a missing police officer who has been caught up in a sex slave ring. Does a very good job at describing just how brutal and terrifying the real thing can actually be. |
| 159 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 160 | ** The Orion slave girls, first seen in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' pilot "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]". These are an interesting example because they are {{retcon}}ned in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E17Bound Bound]]" into secretly being the rulers of their race. They use the pretense of being sex-slaves to infiltrate enemy organizations, and then use [[LoveIsInTheAir powerful pheromones]] to control any males they wish, as they do with the males of their own species. The whole set-up [[StealthPun comes across]] as a bit of an awkward plot device, though, and some argue that this situation carries more UnfortunateImplications than just playing the trope straight. |
| 161 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E25BreadAndCircuses Bread and Circuses]]", [[TheKirk Kirk]] is the well-treated prisoner of the ruler of an [[PlanetOfHats Ancient Rome Planet]]. A female slave is sent to his quarters by his captor. The slave makes it clear (quite suggestively) that she was ''ordered'' to please Kirk. It's left unclear whether Kirk actually has sex with her, but it is clearly at least a possibility. |
| 162 | ** In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Bajoran women were kept as "comfort women" during the Cardassian occupation. |
| 163 | ** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', the holodeck program ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'' (a ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|Serial}}'' expy) has slave girls that the players can rescue. Presumably they are [[RescueSex quite grateful]] to their saviours. |
| 164 | * The plot of Season 2 of ''Series/TheWire'' kicks off when a shipping container full of dead Eastern European sex slaves are found on the Baltimore docks. |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:MusicVideo]] |
| 168 | * The video for "Music/BadRomance" depicts Music/LadyGaga as one of these. [[spoiler:At the end of the video, she burns to death the man who buys her.]] |
| 169 | * The video for "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by Swanky Tunes & Hard Rock Sofa portrays kidnapped Russian girls being sold at an "Elite Men's Club." |
| 170 | [[/folder]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 173 | * In the ever classy Wrestling/WorldWrestlingFederation, The '''P'''retty '''M'''ean '''S'''isters manipulated Meat into having sex with them, and representing them in matches. However, Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} took offense to Wrestling/TerriRunnels using meat as an outright sex slave, eventually breaking up the group. |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Tabletop RPG]] |
| 177 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 178 | ** In every edition except the 4th, dryads occasionally use their magical abilities to charm men to force them to become their lovers and companions. (Although, in some editions, most release them after a while.) |
| 179 | ** The splat book ''Legions of Hell'' describes Glasya, the Archdutchess of Malbolge, the Sixth Hell, as a cruel sadist who deals with trespassers in her realm by casting them into torture chambers. Unless they are male and very attractive, in which case it might be worse; she has been known to either force them into this situation or offer it as an alternate punishment. (It's suggested that she kills or imprisons most of them eventually anyway, once they bore her.) |
| 180 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}''. The Theran Empire designated some of its slaves as "Pleasure Slaves". |
| 181 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': In addition to the "regular" form, some populations have been raised, trained, and even bred (or worse yet, genetically engineered!) for this. A particularly disturbing case of the "regular" variety is found in the Djala, who are slender, delicately built pygmies. True pygmies; as adults, they do not exceed 4'10". Don't think about it too much. |
| 182 | * The Batraeans of ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' has this as their [[PlanetOfHats Hat]]: the males, who are grossly ugly, systematically sells their female relatives, who are all incredibly beautiful and sensual, as slaves and concubines to their more civilised neighbours, and treat them very much as chattle before they do. Batraean females has pheromones that makes men lustful, but for some reason their own males are immune, which they often use to be relatively [[HappinessInSlavery well-treated slaves]]. Other forms of sex slavery exist as well - Thaecians and Sawilans are preyed upon by slavers for that reason, for instance. |
| 183 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': |
| 184 | ** Dark Eldar and followers of Slaanesh practice sexual slavery. |
| 185 | ** This is also common among Imperial nobility, though whether they're called courtesans, consorts, slave or whatever else varies depending on the specific {{planet|OfHats}}. As long as the nobles don't go too far (which is [[CrapsackWorld pretty far]]), the Inquisition doesn't care. |
| 186 | * This is a simplistic and biased but not entirely inaccurate view of Mars' Julandri Courtesan sub-caste in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''. They are technically owned by the Royal and Priest castes, but they are closer to geishas than concubines and they have far better lives and potentially can hold a lot of soft power than almost anyone else in their society. Despite this, they still fall into this trope a lot of the time. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 190 | * In ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings II'', it is possible for pagan or Zoroastrian rulers to take captive women as concubines. |
| 191 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': |
| 192 | ** The implication of what Ser Alrik [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty intends to do with Ella]] by [[MindRape threatening to make her Tranquil]] (i.e., cutting off her ability to feel emotions) during the "Dissent" quest. |
| 193 | ** Along with being a slave SuperSoldier, Fenris is implied to have been this under his former master Danarius. WordOfGod has confirmed this. |
| 194 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': Alejandra, one of the Temple of the Union residents, is a former sex slave. Crimson and Clover are current sex slaves (the Lone Wanderer can even buy the latter, but [[CelibateHero nothing sexual]] comes out of it), and Red becomes a sex slave if you send her to [[NonindicativeName Paradise Falls]]. |
| 195 | * ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': |
| 196 | ** Although all the player ever sees of Legion slaves is them carrying heavy loads, it is heavily implied that the women are subjected to rape on a regular basis, and a bit more subtly that the men aren't just used as pack mules either. |
| 197 | ** There's also an entire quest ("Bye Bye Love") set in the casino of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Gomorrah]] to break a prostitute out of sexual slavery done in a similar fashion to RealLife: Joana is an expensive hooker who's controlled by her bosses using her drug addiction and threats of violence. |
| 198 | * After you are invited to Davik's estate in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' you are encouraged to enjoy a relaxing bath at the hands of his slaves. This being Creator/BioWare, there ''are'' male and female slaves... |
| 199 | * In ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'', Dari Ludum is trafficking women to force them to work in his brothel. The inspector can detain him to save the sex slaves, or let him through only to find out later that Dari Ludum has murdered them. |
| 200 | * [[spoiler:Keristrasza]] becomes Malygos's unwilling consort in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Wrath of the Lich King'', which is essentially this, but said in a more Safe For Work kind of way. |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 204 | * Implied in [[MultipleEndings one ending]] of ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'', if Elodie has a high [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential cruelty]] stat; she can, instead of marrying, decide to [[spoiler:intimidate her maid Alice into becoming her lover. During the ending, it's noted that Alice is envied for the bejeweled collar Elodie makes her wear.]] |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 208 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', they think [[http://endstone.net/2009/07/15/issue-2-page-4/ they can enslave Kyri because she's a higher animal and one customer doesn't want her slaughtered yet]]. |
| 209 | * Alisin from ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' was [[RapeAsBackstory kept as a sex slave]], which led to her [[CycleOfRevenge refusing to let Feddyg go after they had sex, which led to him...]] well... doing a lot of things. |
| 210 | * In ''Webcomic/ForestHill'', Benni was forced to work as one by his abusive father. |
| 211 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Vriska's ancestor, the manipulative PirateGirl Marquise Spinneret Mindfang, had sexual relations with at least one of her slaves, heavily implied to be Kanaya's ancestor the Dolorosa. |
| 212 | * ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'': |
| 213 | ** Implied or at least [[http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/11/who-needs-a-shirt-when-you-have-poles/ feared enough by Jigsaw]] that she snaps and [[spoiler: kicks her Vampire Sire out a hotel window... thirty stories up]]! |
| 214 | ** Since it's explained later on that the Talmi were historically a SlaveRace... |
| 215 | ** Mentioned again when Geisha imagines [[http://www.lastres0rt.com/2011/08/for-once-i-like-the-way-geisha-thinks/ what could be happening to Jigsaw]] [[spoiler: now that she and some of the other players have been captured by Gabriel]]. |
| 216 | * ''Webcomic/TeaHouse'' has a full cast of these ([[InsistentTerminology insistently called "courtesans"]]) and their clients |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 220 | * In ''Literature/AngelOfDeath'' [[spoiler:Pretty Pink Ponytails]] was forced into prostitution by [[spoiler:her brother Zachary]] in order to allow the latter a way to support himself after his parent's deaths without having to face consequences for the crime's he'd committed by that time. She was [[spoiler:only six]] at the time. |
| 221 | * ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': Alluded to when the boy Jamie mentions that his mother was "too busy holding the camera" to stop his father from [[ImpliedRape doing things with him]]. |
| 222 | * In ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'': |
| 223 | ** Many species of Morph were created for this express purpose, by 2090 TheFederation had banned Morph slavery but in the 24th century when most of the stories take place there are still quite a few sex slave traits in the gene pool (ranging from simple [[BuxomBeautyStandard big breasts]] to [[{{Hermaphrodite}} hermaphrodism]]. |
| 224 | ** Leanna Fennec was designed on a Non-Aligned World where slavery is still legal and most slaves have an overt or hidden sexual purpose, shi was meant to be a combination exotic sex slave and industrial spy (which probably contributed to her [[AssholeVictim master's]] [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident "accidental"]] death). |
| 225 | * ''Website/OrionsArm'' has Erotogini, which range from humanoids to living carpets. Though the Sapient Rights accords means that in most civilized regions they are illegal unless designed to be nonsapient (like an animal). Of course, descendants of Erotogini are fairly common. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 229 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Meg and Ruth are victims of this in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E20LeggoMyMegO Leggo My Meg-O]]", which is a direct parody of ''Film/{{Taken}}''. Meg is sold to a handsome Arabian prince who wants to propose marriage, before Brian and Stewie step in. They also manage to rescue Ruth too, but not before her tongue is ripped out. (Fortunately, this show makes good use of the ResetButton.) |
| 230 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpicyCity'': In "Sex Drive", not only does Otaku extract the consciousness of prostitutes, he reworks their personalities on a disc to make them compliant before turning them into virtual sex programs. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
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