# I need a futuristic word for Prostitute/courtesan **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284 "2006-04-04T17:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/21 "2006-04-04T17:57:54Z")
\<70’s\>Socialator\? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/22 "2006-04-04T17:59:21Z")
Service Provider ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/23 "2006-04-04T18:05:48Z")
“Vice President.” Ha ha. I immediately thought of “companion,” so I third that one. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/24 "2006-04-04T18:06:51Z")
Love-bot? Pleasure-model? Space-For-Rent? Conjugal Technician? L’Amoratrix? (Or L’Amorator, if male) ---
**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:** [April 4, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/25 "2006-04-04T18:07:57Z")
Pleasure Technician ? Erotician ? From the Sten series : Joyboy/joygirl. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/26 "2006-04-04T18:10:39Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I was considering _space whore_, but I like the way you think. Dammit, I came into this thread specifically to suggest “Space Ho”. _pout_ ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/27 "2006-04-04T18:11:37Z")
A term coined by Robert Anton Wilson [size-1]Hail Eris[/size] : tantric engineer. ---
**Author:** ![Kaboom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@Kaboom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaboom)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/28 "2006-04-04T18:13:54Z")
Well you said futuristic so how about “pleasure bot”. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/29 "2006-04-04T18:15:22Z")
Oh! Oh! I got another one: **Organism Donor**. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/30 "2006-04-04T18:20:03Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > by the way, thanks for the package of Yememi stuff and post cards! It was fantasic! You’re welcome 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/31 "2006-04-04T18:20:03Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > I don’t like made-up words even (or especially) in sci-fi, so I liked “Companion.” I spent a couple of minutes with a thesauraus but the only other word I found that might work is “Intimate.” I agree. I don’t like it when works set in the future refer to things we have today (like prostitutes) with a needlessly futuristic neologism. Just call 'em hookers. Courtesans if they’ve got pretensions to class. Whores if you’re being mean. Your characters, I assume, are either speaking English or another language that you’re writing as English. So have them use the English terms. Besides that, try borrowing words from other languanges, or turning a common word into a euphemism. Like “companion”. Or “escort”. Besides Compainion (which, it should be pointed out, referred to a specific high-class kind of prostitute, they still had plain old whores as well), Firefly also coined the term “sly” for “gay”, which I like so much that if I were braver I’d try to introduce it to real use. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/32 "2006-04-04T18:21:23Z")
Speisha. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/33 "2006-04-04T18:38:59Z")
Sex tech. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/34 "2006-04-04T18:39:07Z")
“Space Hooker” ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/35 "2006-04-04T18:39:59Z")
> [@Menocchio](#): > > Firefly also coined the term “sly” for “gay”, which I like so much that if I were braver I’d try to introduce it to real use. Really? I missed that. Where did it come up? ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/36 "2006-04-04T18:41:14Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > Lady of the Stars (ie: Lade of the Night, in space) > > Cyprian (this one is an actual synonym for prostitute) > > Rocket rider (double entendre, and also depending on your sci fi setting, it’s a spin off of streetwalker) Your answers are great! ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/37 "2006-04-04T18:46:21Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Really? I missed that. Where did it come up? In the episode “Heart of Gold”, the crew is protecting a brothel. The Madam offers Mal his choice of female prostitutes. When he declines she says something like “we also have men if you are sly”. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/38 "2006-04-04T19:08:37Z")
I was thinking “Gazongarene.” Then I saw this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/39 "2006-04-04T19:20:14Z")
> [@Mouse\_Maven](#): > > Organism Donor. Is that really what you meant? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/40 "2006-04-04T19:28:45Z")
Sensate? Sensation technician? (Covers anything from run of the mill to dom/sub.) or, there’s always the vulgar: Gazdahn. (As in: Who’s she? She’s a Gazdahn. What’s she do? She gazdahn.) 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284.md?page=3)