# Let's list some famous fictional prostitutes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534 "2007-12-10T20:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/21 "2007-12-10T21:42:35Z")
[Inara Serra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inara_Serra). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/22 "2007-12-10T21:45:04Z")
Didn’t Carmen sometimes sleep with men for money? not necessarily all the time, but when she needed it? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/23 "2007-12-10T21:53:30Z")
Catwoman ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/24 "2007-12-10T21:57:46Z")
Sister Sara ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/25 "2007-12-10T22:02:30Z")
As immortalized by Chris Farley’s character in _Almost Heroes_: [QUOTE=Bartholomew Hunt] I name this here fork “Pittsburgh Nellie”; a Welsh whore who could do things with her one good arm that’d make you forget about that thing on her neck! [/QUOTE] Only mentioned tangentially, but she has become quite famous among my group of friends. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/26 "2007-12-10T22:03:30Z")
Sadie Thompson? ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/27 "2007-12-10T22:40:23Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Whatsherface from _The Crimson Petal and the White_. [/QUOTE] Sugar. That’s who I came in here to mention. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/28 "2007-12-10T22:48:14Z")
Doll Tearsheet, close personal friend of Sir John Falstaff. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/29 "2007-12-10T22:59:11Z")
Sally Bowles in _Cabaret_ (don’t know if this one counts…she wasn’t an official prostitute, but she did sleep with men for “gifts”) ---
**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:** [December 10, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/30 "2007-12-10T23:05:09Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] Sugar. That’s who I came in here to mention. [/QUOTE] Me, too. I loved that book. How about Aldonza from “Man of LaMancha”? I have no idea if she is a character in _Don Quixote_. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/31 "2007-12-10T23:09:22Z")
Lady Louisa Dem Five, “Lou” to friends & customers, genetically-enhanced hooker & madam of The Velvet Fist House, from the online comic _Buck Godot: Zap Gun For Hire_. Various “Slot Machine Girls” in Heinlein’s _The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_. So called, because…ah hell, _you know!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/32 "2007-12-10T23:11:06Z")
Jan Brady in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. O.K., not Jan. Eve Plum. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/33 "2007-12-10T23:18:45Z")
Lady Sally, from _Callahan’s Lady_ and _Lady Slings the Booze_. Actually, again, I’m unclear on whether she counts…she runs the bordello but I don’t remember if she’s actually one of the “artists”… ---
**Author:** ![Octalcode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Octalcode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octalcode)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/34 "2007-12-10T23:20:22Z")
Iris (Jodie Foster) in Taxi Driver ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/35 "2007-12-10T23:42:29Z")
Would the titular character of “Memoirs of a Geisha” count? I know, I know–geisha are not prostitutes! they are educated companions, etc…but since a big part of the plot revolved around the protagonist having her virginity sold to the highest bidder, it’s kind of hard not to see it that way. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/36 "2007-12-11T00:23:59Z")
Mrs. Constance Miller from **McCabe and Mrs. Miller** , though she was semiretired and acted as the madam for McCabe’s brothel. More disturbingly, Violet (and her mother Hattie, as well as all the other women in the brothel) from **Pretty Baby**. **Belle du Jour** Maggie Paul from **Cinderella Liberty** Volpina in **Amacord** Liz in **Whore** ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/37 "2007-12-11T00:31:11Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Holly Golightly [/QUOTE] Was she really a prostitute? I thought she was more of a kept woman or a professional mooch. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/38 "2007-12-11T00:57:08Z")
**Mrs. Rogo** from _The Poseidon Adventure_ **Jenny Diver, Suky Tawdry** et al from _The Beggar’s/Threepenny Opera_ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/39 "2007-12-11T00:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Mary Magdalene in any number of Biblical epics, perhaps most notably _The Last Temptation of Christ_. [/QUOTE] [But probably not really.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980918.html) [Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ofredgarvin.phtml) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/40 "2007-12-11T01:00:51Z")
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