# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/41 "2013-07-30T04:06:27Z")
Total Recall. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/42 "2013-07-30T14:30:40Z")
Weirdly central to the novel and film **Catch 22** was Nettly’s Whore. ---
**Author:** ![CorneaGenii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@CorneaGenii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorneaGenii)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/43 "2013-07-30T14:33:11Z")
I think Malcolm Reynolds and Inara Serra from _Firefly_ also qualify, though it wasn’t the main focus of the series. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/44 "2013-07-30T14:41:08Z")
The protagonist of \*Sexy Beast \*married a porn star. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/45 "2013-07-30T14:48:54Z")
In the novel and film _The Victors_ a featured portion is a where a major character falls in love with a woman who is a prostitute. In film/Broadway musical _South Pacific_ (or _Tales of the South Pacific_ if you prefer the novel) doesn’t Bloody Mary pimp out her daughter to the lt.? And most definitely the Lt. falls in love with her. In the film _Cheyenne Social Club_ both the male leads (James Stewart and Henry Fonda) fall for prostitutes working at the “Social Club.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/46 "2013-07-30T14:50:15Z")
In [Action](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206467/), the lead character has a relationship with a prostitute. I don’t think the character was in love with anyone but himself, but by Hollywood standards, it was a longstanding commitment. In the original _Battlestar Galactica_, Starbuck had a relationship with a “socialator”. This was a 1970’s prime-time TV show, so they never explicitly called her a prostitute, but they dropped some pretty broad hints. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/47 "2013-07-30T15:42:54Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Weirdly central to the novel and film **Catch 22** was Nettly’s Whore. Nately. And darn you, I should have thought of that one. What was odd in this case was that the whore fell obsessively and homicidally in love with Nately only AFTER he’d gotten killed… at which point, she kept trying to kill Yossarian, whose only “crime” was being the one to give her the news of Nately’s death. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/48 "2013-07-30T15:56:24Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > In film/Broadway musical _South Pacific_ (or _Tales of the South Pacific_ if you prefer the novel) doesn’t Bloody Mary pimp out her daughter to the lt.? And most definitely the Lt. falls in love with her. No, it’s just matchmaking; she wants Liat to marry the rich American. **The Owl and the Pussycat** had a relationship between George Segal and part-time prostitute [Barbra Streisand](http://www.log24.com/log/pix08A/081214-Pussycat.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/49 "2013-07-30T16:24:24Z")
In _The Mentalist_, one of the team (Cho) falls for a hooker who is also a CI. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/50 "2013-07-30T16:25:41Z")
Blue World by Robert McCammon is about a priest that becomes infatuated with a porn star. Not exactly what you’re looking for, but it sounds close. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/51 "2013-07-30T17:01:07Z")
In _Gone With the Wind_, Rhett may not be in love with Belle Watling but he definitely loves her. He keeps up a relationship with her during his marriage and essentially moves in with her after his marriage collapses. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/52 "2013-07-30T17:27:12Z")
I would suggest going to some of the forums on prostitution and check out a few threads (you might need google translate, because these will typically be foreign boards). If you need a few links, you can pm me… some chilling stories, with the added value of them being true. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/53 "2013-07-30T18:58:31Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > In the film _Cheyenne Social Club_ both the male leads (James Stewart and Henry Fonda) fall for prostitutes working at the “Social Club.” Do they? IIRC, Jimmy Stewart does not even sample their wares (though Fonda does with some relish), and at the end they leave town with no romantic entanglements. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/54 "2013-07-30T19:07:06Z")
A real life case would be writer Stephen Crane. The love of his life was Lady Cora Stewart, 6 years his senior, who in spite of being the former wife of a baronet (who divorced her due to infidelity) was a madam in Jacksonville, Florida. Though they never legally married, they lived together until his death, he left her his entire estate (not much in and of itself, but the literary rights brought some income). After his death in a German sanitarium, she returned to Florida, opened a larger brothel, and married a signifincantly younger fourth husband before dying in her mid-40s. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/55 "2013-07-30T19:31:41Z")
It seems to be pretty common in Westerns. In the movie _Johnny Guitar_ it is strongly hinted that the Joan Crawford character is a former prostitute. The title character was in love with her. On _Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman_, the telegraph operator Horace fell in love with and married a prostitute. Dr. Quinn’s adopted son also fell in love with a different prostitute but it didn’t last more than one or two episodes. On _Deadwood_, definitely Sol Star and probably Al Swearengen are in love with Trixie. Jane at one point seemed to be falling for former prostitute Joanie. On _Gunsmoke_, Miss Kitty may have been a prostitute and Matt seems to have been in love with her. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/56 "2013-07-30T19:46:37Z")
The Woody Allen film _Mighty Aphrodite_ is sorta-kinda about this, but with lots of twists. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/57 "2013-07-30T20:18:28Z")
Pretty Woman. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/58 "2013-07-30T20:19:16Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > It seems to be pretty common in Westerns. _Stagecoach_. Can’t believe I forgot _Stagecoach_. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/59 "2013-07-30T20:30:10Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > In _Gone With the Wind_, Rhett may not be in love with Belle Watling but he definitely loves her. He keeps up a relationship with her during his marriage and essentially moves in with her after his marriage collapses. He also sets her up in business as a madame, and uses her whorehouse as a alibi after several of the town’s best citizens are accused of making a Ku Klux Klan raid. Eva Duarte was a loose woman and might have been a prostitute. Juan Peron apparently fell in love with her. ---
**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, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/60 "2013-07-30T20:45:14Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > Jimmy Stewart does not even sample their wares (though Fonda does with some relish) Kinky! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847.md?page=4)