# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/81 "2006-04-06T11:47:11Z")
or… C3P-HO ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/82 "2006-04-06T12:00:06Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > Asstronaut. That is so perfect. Although it does somewhat imply a particular speciality. Anyway… Meat Puppets I read a sci fi book at some point, I can’t remember the name (though I’m sure someone will be along to tell me 🙂 ) where in some future dystopia they had woman who, when they needed money, whould go to brothels and, by some electronic process be rendered…well active but senseless. And they would do anything the “client” wanted. But not remeber their humiliating experiences. Hence meat puppets. I also remeber a great story about how in the future female robots were considered the perfect prostitutes so real woman pretended to be a robot… And then of course there’s the future porn I happen to be writing myself… Of course none of this helps you. But I thought it was interesting And I’ll be spending the rest of the day trying to think of a name for a space prostitiute. Thanks a lot. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/83 "2006-04-06T12:37:07Z")
All words don’t change. You’ll be telling the story in 2006 language. Why not just use courtesan? ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/84 "2006-04-06T12:50:17Z")
EUI = Erotic User Interface ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/85 "2006-04-06T19:01:45Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Meat Puppets > I read a sci fi book at some point, I can’t remember the name (though I’m sure someone will be along to tell me 🙂 ) where in some future dystopia they had woman who, when they needed money, whould go to brothels and, by some electronic process be rendered…well active but senseless. And they would do anything the “client” wanted. But not remeber their humiliating experiences. > > Hence meat puppets. 'twas one of William Gibson’s Cyberpunk books. Molly Millions used to make money to pay for her cybernetics that way. Unfortunately the cybernetics interfered with the semi-concious state and she ended up slicing up a wierdo when she became concious during a very dodgy activity. Think the pay was good, you didn’t remember anything, and the only side effect was being fairly sore in strange places afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/86 "2006-04-06T20:01:14Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > 'twas one of William Gibson’s Cyberpunk books. Molly Millions used to make money to pay for her cybernetics that way. Unfortunately the cybernetics interfered with the semi-concious state and she ended up slicing up a wierdo when she became concious during a very dodgy activity. Think the pay was good, you didn’t remember anything, and the only side effect was being fairly sore in strange places afterwards. I KNEW someone would know. 🙂 And I was kind of thinking William Gibson. Now if someone can just think of the short story…it was in a book of weird sex tales…just where i want to be published. And I’m not helping the OP still…but my stuff doesn’t include space prositutues. And I just call them “vending machines”. And No your no allowed to uses that! It’s…integeral… Thanks Bippy. Still thinking about the OP. Must support a fellow writer. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/87 "2006-04-06T20:07:01Z")
> [@Joools](#): > > I love it. If you do this, you should push it as far as you can. Find something that in the current day has absolutely no sex appeal and try to make it work. For example: **kissinger**. Which I also like because, if you strip away the cultural context it kind of works as a combination of kissing + messenger. Robert Anton Wilson did something like that in one of the _Schrodinger’s Cat_ books. He used the names of anti porn proponents for sexual parts. Ex. : Rehnquist = penis, Brownmiller = tits, etc. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/88 "2006-04-07T01:11:52Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > \<70’s\>Socialator\? > > 😃 Funny I always thought it should be socialatrix for females and socialator for males. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/89 "2006-04-07T01:25:35Z")
[Innamorati?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innamorato) ---
**Author:** ![mrrealtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@mrrealtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrrealtime)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/90 "2006-04-07T01:30:19Z")
dont know about the future, but today they are called Employees. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/91 "2006-04-07T01:35:16Z")
Flagrante delectorian ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/92 "2006-04-07T03:50:27Z")
Or, seeing how languages evolve, _The Monlewnsky_. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/93 "2006-04-07T11:43:43Z")
How about _interns_? Kinda funny and has a valid language-evolving kind of feel to it. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/94 "2006-04-07T12:34:48Z")
These are all great. C3P-Ho. HAH! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/95 "2006-04-07T13:22:59Z")
> [@detop](#): > > Robert Anton Wilson did something like that in one of the _Schrodinger’s Cat_ books. He used the names of anti porn proponents for sexual parts. Ex. : Rehnquist = penis, Brownmiller = tits, etc. 😃 I remember that! “Lourde my Rehnquist!” “As a mere male, I have always envied a woman’s capacity for multiple Millet.” (Spoken by a Catholic priest, in the confessional, in a period after the reforms of Pope Stephen I (nee Stephen Dedalus).) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/96 "2006-04-07T13:25:13Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Funny I always thought it should be socialatrix for females and socialator for males. The Twelve Colonies have enough trouble keeping straight all the Egyptian and Mormon elements in their culture. It’s unreasonable to expect them to also have a good mastery of Latin. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/97 "2006-04-07T14:11:38Z")
Vulvoids? Labians? Venus Monsters? ---
**Author:** ![yingtongtiddleipo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f6c823/32.png) [@yingtongtiddleipo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yingtongtiddleipo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/98 "2006-04-07T14:23:52Z")
inamorato/inamorata? Def; A man/woman with whom one has an intimate relationship ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/99 "2006-04-07T14:31:41Z")
> [@yingtongtiddleipo](#): > > inamorato/inamorata? > > Def; A man/woman with whom one has an intimate relationship Err…yeah but that’s what I call myself now (at least when SO seems a little cold). And it doesn’t imply money. I always thought of it as more romantic. ---
**Author:** ![yingtongtiddleipo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f6c823/32.png) [@yingtongtiddleipo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yingtongtiddleipo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284/100 "2006-04-07T14:53:04Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Err…yeah but that’s what I call myself now (at least when SO seems a little cold). And it doesn’t imply money. I always thought of it as more romantic. But in the future there may well be no romance!! There may only be ££Inamorata$$… he he he [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-futuristic-word-for-prostitute-courtesan/351284.md?page=6)