If you got the money, Honey, they got the time.
"Like all members of the oldest profession, I'm a capitalist."
— Miss Scarlett, Clue
No, not "semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer".
Prostitution and other forms of sex work: strippers, porn stars, dominatrixes, etc. This page is Not Safe for Work in any way, shape or form, but is legal in Mexico and most of the state of Nevada.
Tropes:
- Asian Hooker Stereotype: a prostitute of East or Southeast Asian ethnicity.
- Ballad of a Sex Worker: a song about a woman in the sex industry.
- Band of Brothels: a legal organization or union that oversees/regulates prostitution.
- This Bed of Rose's: a prostitute gives someone a place to stay.
- Camp Follower: prostitutes who follow and service soldiers during war.
- Chippendales Dancers: male strippers.
- Compensated Dating: dating older men for pay.
- Den of Iniquity: Often a brothel.
- Dirty Harriet: going undercover as a sex worker.
- Disposable Sex Worker: prostitutes double as convenient murder victims.
- Dominatrix: a woman who dominates men for Fanservice.
- Elite Man–Courtesan Romance: a person of high rank falls in love with a sex worker.
- Family-Friendly Stripper: a stripper wears an elaborate and theoretically sexy costume that covers just about everything.
- Freestate Amsterdam: Characters go to Amsterdam for legal sex workers and drugs.
- Happy-Ending Massage: a brothel called a massage parlor.
- High-Class Call Girl: She's not a prostitute, she's a courtesan.
- Hookers and Blow: depraved drugs and sex.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: a kind-hearted sex worker (usually a love interest).
- Human Traffickers: People who sell humans, often times for sexual purposes.
- Miss Kitty: An older woman who runs a brothel.
- Mistaken for Prostitute: someone is mistaken for a prostitute.
- Need a Hand, or a Handjob?: solicitation is mistaken for an offer of help.
- Pink Is Erotic: The color pink is used to indicate arousal, attraction, eroticism, and scenes of a sexual nature.
- Platonic Prostitution: a character consorts with a sex worker for non-sex-related purposes.
- Pleasure Planet: Some science fiction settings will have a Red Light District in space.
- Predatory Prostitute: An evil, cruel, and/or further criminal sex worker.
- Professional Sex Ed: a prostitute is hired for someone's first time.
- Psychosexual Horror: A subgenre that explores psychosexual development as a subject matter, including themes of sexual development and sexual activities.
- Red Light District: an area of a city known for sex work.
- School of Seduction: trade school for sex workers.
- Secret Sex Worker: A character is Living a Double Life, hiding that they are a sex worker from those closest to them, typically out of fear of social rejection, condemnation, and/or being arrested for engaging in a criminalized profession.
- Sexbot: When the sex worker is a robot.
- Sex for Services: a trade between sexual favors for non-sexual favors.
- Sex Slave: a slave whose main service is sexual labor (not technically a prostitute, as prostitute is defined by being paid).
- Sex Tourism: a character goes on vacation primarily to have sex.
- Shady Lady of the Night: a prostitute who's involved in other criminal activites, usually not on her own accord.
- Single Mom Stripper: a single mother who moonlights as a sex worker of some kind.
- Son of a Whore: a character whose mother is or was a prostitute.
- Streetwalker: a prostitute who walks the street in order to find clients.
- Unproblematic Prostitution: being a whore is awesome!
- The Wicked Stage: a forgotten trope where theater actresses = prostitutes.
