# Which superhero most likely patronizes prostitutes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122 "2003-09-17T13:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qburn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/bc79bd/32.png) [@Qburn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qburn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/21 "2003-09-17T22:43:08Z")
Zorac goes along for the ride sometimes, but **Moltar** has a thing for the ladies… ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/22 "2003-09-17T23:17:13Z")
**CalMeacham** is correct… Lobo… It’s not _likely_ it’s a fraggin’ _FACT_!!! ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/23 "2003-09-18T02:03:58Z")
Duff Man! ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/24 "2003-09-18T02:41:10Z")
What, no Harvey Birdman (Attorney at Law)? OK, how about Zorak, then? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/25 "2003-09-18T04:02:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alessan \* > \*\*Actually, I can see Bruce Wayne indulging himself with the occasional $10,000-a-night professional, just to drive away the loneliness. \*\* Well, there was that time Alfred woke up to the sounds of the hooker yelling for help. She was tied to the bed and Master Bruce was lying unconsious nearby, in his Batman costume… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/26 "2003-09-18T04:26:29Z")
I immediately thought of Batman. He’s supposed to be all “dark” and stuff, so he probably likes it nice and dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/27 "2003-09-18T04:28:27Z")
I’m surprised nobody has suggested Wolverine yet. Due to his superb healing powers, the hookers can’t even give him the clap! So he’d probably pop over any time he wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/28 "2003-09-18T05:25:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Probably Robin. Who else would do a nerd in leotards? \*\* Batman? ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/29 "2003-09-18T07:04:23Z")
Guy Gardner always seems like a likely candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/30 "2003-09-18T07:24:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blake \* > \*\*Guy Gardner always seems like a likely candidate. \*\* The only way Guy could get some is by paying for it.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/31 "2003-09-18T08:08:37Z")
He’s probably sad enough to wish something up with his ring… just as I am sad enough to even think of it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/32 "2003-09-18T09:38:47Z")
in Animal Man, there was a charcter called The Notional Man that visited prostitutes, only… his power was that bits of him would come off his body and well… most of the girls just couldn’t tolerate it. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/33 "2003-09-18T11:20:21Z")
I was going to suggest Logan because of the rough places he frequents and the women he ahs been in relationships or fixated on when I still read comics (Yukio, Jean Gray) were mostly out of his league by conventional standards, so why wouldn’t he have a madonna/whore complex? Blue Beetle always came across like as an immature and slightly perverted goofy frat boy type to me, especially when around women like Fire and Ice, so I could see him going to hookers. A lot of the characters from _Marshal Law_ might have frequented hookers, but that was probably just to kill them, since weren’t most of the superpowered characters crazy, impotent, or both? I possibly could see Captain Marvel/Shazam going to a dominatrix. Stuff’s just got to be welling up all repressed under that exterior of his: “Everybody sees me as this clean cut wholesome hero guy, and women just don’t go for that uptight whitebread crap. I want some woman to tell me how _naughty_ I’ve been. Captain Marvel’s been a bad boy… By the way, how would I tell you my ‘safe’ word with this ball gag in my mouth?” ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/34 "2003-09-18T12:16:03Z")
Wonderman ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/35 "2003-09-18T13:00:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by widdershins \* > \*\*I possibly could see Captain Marvel/Shazam going to a dominatrix. Stuff’s just got to be welling up all repressed under that exterior of his: > > “Everybody sees me as this clean cut wholesome hero guy, and women just don’t go for that uptight whitebread crap. I want some woman to tell me how _naughty_ I’ve been. Captain Marvel’s been a bad boy… By the way, how would I tell you my ‘safe’ word with this ball gag in my mouth?” \*\* Um, you do remember that Captain Marvel is a twelve-year-old boy, right? He probably just sneaks into strip clubs, sips a beer and giggles all night. I second Logan. I’ll add Zauriel (he around any more?), an angel who fell from Heaven due to his amorous interests. Oh, sure, he’d try to justify it by syaing he’s doing the whole “Mary Magdalene” thing. But Jesus never tipped so well. On the villainous side. Catwoman was a prostitute, of course, prior to her career as a theif. I can see most of Flash’s “Rogues Gallery” going in for professional relief. They’re all pretty hardened (heh) badasses now, but still too goofy to pick up their own groupies. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/36 "2003-09-18T15:38:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lamia \* > \*\*I don’t know much about comics, but I would have guessed the same…before I read (on this very forum!) that The Flash has the power to vibrate his body. Any part of his body. Presumably at any speed. > > Thanks to the SDMB my ignorance was fought, and I’ll never question The Flash’s erotic abilities ever again! \*\* The only problem is, when the Flash vibrates his body, he passes right through solid objects. “Sorry, honey, I fell out again. And through the bed. And through the floor below the bed.” ---
**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:** [September 18, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/37 "2003-09-18T16:48:07Z")
In Grant Morrison’s run of Doom Patrol, Rebis has sex with a prostitute. During Rachel Pollack’s subsequent run, the prostitute herself, who acquired powers as a result of the encounter, became a regular character (Kate/Coagula). \ > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\*The only way Guy could get some is by paying for it.😃 \*\* I’ve never seen any Green Lantern since the '60s (except the famous “there’s skins you ain’t never bothered with” episode from the '70s). What exactly is the deal with Guy Gardner? I just remember seeing an ad in one of the Doom Patrol books I mentioned above showing a smiling Guy Gardner surrounded by other characters who were sneering like he was a cockroach, and it made me curious. So what was/is wrong with him? \ ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/38 "2003-09-18T17:02:45Z")
Um, DNFTT? Isn’t this, like, **Scumpup** ’s fifth prurient superhero drive-by threads in two days? ---
**Author:** ![me\_again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@me\_again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/me_again)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/39 "2003-09-18T19:41:02Z")
Compliments to you for a great headline. Sole purpose of this post. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122/40 "2003-09-19T00:05:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Menocchio \* > **Um, you do remember that Captain Marvel is a twelve-year-old boy, right? He probably just sneaks into strip clubs, sips a beer and giggles all night.** FWIW, he’s 15 or 16 now, and sort of dating Stargirl (the Star Spangled Kid) > [@](#): > > \*\*I can see most of Flash’s “Rogues Gallery” going in for professional relief. They’re all pretty hardened (heh) badasses now, but still too goofy to pick up their own groupies. \*\* Captain Cold has been shown with a prostitute at least once. Of course, he’d taken her to a hockey game, but that was probably his idea of foreplay. I was going to say Guy Gardner too. At least back when he was still a Green Lantern. Nowadays I’m not so sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-superhero-most-likely-patronizes-prostitutes/202122.md?page=3)