# Falling in love with a prostitute? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847 "2013-07-29T21:11:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/21 "2013-07-29T22:46:18Z")
There was an ongoing storyline in _[The John Larroquette Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_John_Larroquette_Show)_ about the relationship between Larroquette’s character and the prostitute character played by Gigi Rice. But good luck on seeing this. NBC never released the series on any format for home viewing and it hasn’t been shown in syndication since 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/22 "2013-07-29T22:53:07Z")
> [@agnesnitt](#): > > And what about the Jack Lemmon movie “The Apartment” although the girl’s status as a prostitute is a little vague. She wasn’t a prostitute, she was an elevator operator. In fact, when her proto-_Mad Man_ married boyfriend (Fred MacMurray, awesome) gives her a hundred bucks in lieu of a Christmas gift, only then does she taunt him as though he sees her as a prostitute. And since it was 1960, $100 meant high-class goods. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/23 "2013-07-29T22:59:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > There was an ongoing storyline in _[The John Larroquette Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_John_Larroquette_Show)_ about the relationship between Larroquette’s character and the prostitute character played by Gigi Rice. > > But good luck on seeing this. NBC never released the series on any format for home viewing and it hasn’t been shown in syndication since 2005. She was a doll, but like all such characters she got a lot “softer” as the series progressed. They finally ended up sleeping together in about the third season; it was memorable because David Crosby’s character’s ghost was there. I took away one thing from that show: the sign on the back of John’s office, from an old-style carnival: THIS IS A DARK RIDE. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/24 "2013-07-29T23:11:18Z")
Prewitt fell for Lorene in _From Here to Eternity._. The New Congress Club wasn’t as blatantly a brothel in the movie as in the book, but it wasn’t a secret. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/25 "2013-07-29T23:31:17Z")
It was a theme for a few episodes in _The West Wing_. Sam falls for a law student, not realizing she was financing law school by being an escort. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/26 "2013-07-29T23:42:29Z")
Ernest Borgnine’s cop and Stella Steven’s hooker were on their honeymoon in the original [Poseidon Adventure](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069113/). ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/27 "2013-07-29T23:46:23Z")
There are a few examples in here: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HookerWithAHeartOfGold](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HookerWithAHeartOfGold) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/28 "2013-07-29T23:57:23Z")
**L.A. Confidential, True Romance, Killing Zoe**. (I feel like I could come up with these all day if I thought about it). ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/29 "2013-07-29T23:57:52Z")
Arguably, Bob Dylan’s song, _[Simple Twist of Fate](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZ6sQFg74I)_, is about a guy who falls in love with a prostitute (or, at the very least, a one night stand). ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/30 "2013-07-30T00:23:06Z")
The 80’s were ripe with movies about madcaped adventures of being a pimp, only to fall in love. The weirdest was “Doctor Detroit” with Dan Aykroyd. The strangeness of this movie needs be be seen to be believed. Next is “Night Shift” with Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton and Shelley Long who pimp out of a mortuary. Still no where as weird as Doctor Detroit. And finally “Risky Business” with a supposedly teenaged Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay, which is barely weird at all. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/31 "2013-07-30T00:50:53Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > The weirdest was “Doctor Detroit” with Dan Aykroyd. The strangeness of this movie needs be be seen to be believed. Aykroyd actually did fall in love with Donna Dixon, one of the actresses playing a prostitute, during the production of this movie. They got married a few months later and will be celebrating their 30th anniversary this year. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/32 "2013-07-30T00:57:49Z")
I loved _[The Crimson Petal and the White](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Petal_and_the_White)_ and didn’t realize it had been made into a miniseries. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/33 "2013-07-30T01:19:22Z")
_Notes From Underground_, kind of, although the underground man was too messed up to really love anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/34 "2013-07-30T01:51:57Z")
On the first season of The West Wing, White House Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn, played by Rob Lowe, has a relationship with a call girl, played by Lisa Edelstein (who’s only doing it to put herself through Law School). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/35 "2013-07-30T02:06:52Z")
Does this happen Crime and Punishment? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/36 "2013-07-30T02:40:05Z")
I can not believe I’m the first to mention [Moulin Rouge!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge!) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/37 "2013-07-30T03:01:19Z")
Another opera, Kurt Weill’s and Bertolt Brecht’s _Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny_ is centered on a brothel. It’s questionable how much love Jim has for Jenny, though. Puccini’s _Madama Butterfly_ counts if you’re cynical enough about Cio-Cio San. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/38 "2013-07-30T03:01:37Z")
\*The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas \* ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/39 "2013-07-30T03:12:47Z")
The Australian TV series _Rake_ features this theme and is highly recommended. (There will soon be an American remake starring Greg Kinnear, but I still suggest you watch the Aussie original.) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/40 "2013-07-30T03:13:50Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > The weirdest was “Doctor Detroit” with Dan Aykroyd. The strangeness of this movie needs be be seen to be believed.. I feel like the character of “Mom” and her henchmen heavily influenced the character of Mom and her henchmen from Futurama. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847.md?page=3)