# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**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, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/61 "2013-07-30T20:55:17Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Eva Duarte was a loose woman and might have been a prostitute. Juan Peron apparently fell in love with her. [/QUOTE] One of the things I liked about the movie _EVITA_ was how it handled her probable prostitution phase in the _Another Suitcase in Another Hall_ tango montage. ---
**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, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/62 "2013-07-30T21:12:35Z")
You’re thinking of _Goodnight and Thank You_, the song between _Another Suitcase in Another Hall_ which has Magaldi throwing Evita out and _A New Argentina_, where she meets Peron. Eva apparently had quote a few lovers during that time, but whether they paid her or not is unclear. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/63 "2013-07-30T21:27:48Z")
I have vague recollections of a short lived sitcom a few years ago on ABC with Jonathan Silverman’s lead character falling in love with Kelly Hu’s character who worked in a “massage parlor”. The show was quite blatant about what was going on in the parlor, and I think they even met there (or re-met there, they’d previously gone to school together or something like that). ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/64 "2013-07-30T22:00:40Z")
Thank you for all the suggestions, I appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/65 "2013-07-30T23:47:29Z")
If you define prostitute as a woman who is paid to have sex, there is a relationship between assassin John Rain, and a woman who seduces targets for Israeli intelligence, that spans multiple novels by Barry Eisler. Highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/66 "2013-07-31T00:07:02Z")
Idiocracy, I believe. Isn’t Maya Rudolph’s character a hooker? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/67 "2013-07-31T00:13:45Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > You’re thinking of _Goodnight and Thank You_, the song between _Another Suitcase in Another Hall_ which has Magaldi throwing Evita out and _A New Argentina_, where she meets Peron. Eva apparently had quote a few lovers during that time, but whether they paid her or not is unclear. No. To me the tango [montage between 1:50-2:20 implies](http://youtu.be/x4SYWmwVIVo?t=1m48s) (without stating) actual prostitution. By _Goodnight and Thank You_ she’s more courtesan and opportunistic relationships than an actual money-for-sex prostitute. ---
**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 31, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/68 "2013-07-31T00:18:07Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > 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. I almost mentioned _Lonesome Dove_. Gus certainly loves Lorena although he’s not in love with her the way he is with Clara. ---
**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 31, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/69 "2013-07-31T00:41:28Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > 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. While Fonda’s character’s did leave Cheyenne with few regrets. It was not quite the case with Stewart’s character. There was clearly something there. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/70 "2013-07-31T01:48:15Z")
The [Belisarius series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius_series) has Belsarius who is in love with Antonia, Justinian with Theodora, Eon with Tarabai, and Valentinian with Dhruva. Antonia and Theodora are both _former_ prostitutes by the time the series starts. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/71 "2013-07-31T02:31:09Z")
[Never on Sunday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_on_Sunday) book and movie ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847/72 "2013-07-31T02:34:00Z")
> [@Schism](#): > > And… > > _Taxi Driver_ I don’t think Travis Bickle was actually “in love” with the young prostitute or even all that sexually attracted to her. She was more an object to be rescued. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-in-love-with-a-prostitute/664847.md?page=3)