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* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] novel ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]''. The California Confederacy has a hooker's union, which sponsored legislation to have the government train and license women who wanted to be prostitutes, then pay them a subsidy not to sell themselves. The union did this to reduce the total number of prostitutes so they could keep the union scale high and make more money themselves.
* The creation of an association of this kind is the main plot in [[Mario Vargas Llosa]]'s novel ''Pantaleon y las Visitadoras'' (known in English as "''Captain Pantoja and the Special Service''").
* The city of Camorr in the ''[[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]]'' series by Scott Lynch had two such organizations dividing up areas of the city. It's revealed they fought a very long and bloody gang war to take control and form a monopoly, so much so that when [[Magnificent Bastard]] Capa Vencarlo Barsavi took over the entire city's criminal underworld, over a hundred gangs all told, he choose to enter into a partnership with them in exchange for their nominal fealty to him rather than enforce subservience to the extent he does on the rest of the city.
* ''Islands in the Net'' by Bruce Sterling has The Church of Ishtar along these lines.
* [[Vorkosigan Saga]]'s Beta Colony has its LPSTs: Licensed Professional Sexual Therapists. The hermaphrodite ones are especially popular.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The [[Forgotten Realms]] setting of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has an unconventional take on this: the church of Sharess is mostly ''composed'' of prostitutes of all ends of the spectrum, including males, and while Sharess is only a demipower, the church has powerful allies and more influence in certain quarters than one would expect. Completely [[Justified Trope|understandable]] in that Sharess is the goddess of pleasure (And going by her [[Whip It Good|favored weapon]], [[Rule 34|all flavors thereof]]).
** Not quite on that last note: Sharess is [[Chaotic Good]]. Masochism and the like are the purview of [[Lawful Evil]] Loviatar, while other, darker, pleasures fall under the banner of [[Neutral Evil]] Shar. Sharess's angle is more humanitarian-both prostitutes and escorts who take pride in their professions, and those fallen into those professions who struggle to stay morally decent people.
* The ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' game ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Aethera Inamorata, a faction within the Children of Gaia [[Splat|tribe]] composed of sexual healers. They're all about the spirituality of sex and maintains the tribe's close ties to the Cult of Ecstacy tradition of Mages. They were originally known as "Houris" and/or "The Hours," and claim that agents of the game's [[Cosmic Horror]] mutated that name into "whore" and turned sex into something seen as dirty and shameful by society.
* In ''[[Seventh Sea|7th Sea]]'', "Jenny's Girls" are an important political group.
* Some [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] novels imply that institutionalized prostitution is relatively common.
 
 
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