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She charges £600 (or $1,000) an hour, looks great in a court wig and robes, speaks several languages, knows her tort from her barratry and can charm half the High Court.
She's not a [[Hello, Attorney!|barrister]], or a [[I Thought It Meant|solicitor]], she's a prostitute.
Mind you, she might be arguing cases before a court of law in a few years yet; she could well be putting herself through law school. But for the moment, she is a prostitute. Far likelier than other kinds of prostitutes to be an [[Ethical Slut]], she might not even charge for sex. Instead she calls herself a courtesan or an escort and charges only for her company, regardless of whether there is sex or no.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In an episode of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'', Itoshki briefly overcomes his pessimism and resolves to become [[The Hedonist]]. This includes hiring a high class prostitute.
* Nokaze in ''[[Jin (manga)]]'' is the most famous courtesan in 1860s Edo. {{spoiler|The time-traveling title character gets the special deluxe treatment from her.}}
* Yumi Komagata from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''. She was an ''[[wikipedia:Oiran|oiran]]'' or high-class courtesan, more exactly. Also, despite not being a bad person, she was ''far'' [[Broken Bird|more cynical and emotionally broken]] than the standard thanks to some extreme dick moves on the part of the government.
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' - Principal Daimon financed her revenge scheme by being a hostess in a seedy bar.
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* Servilia in the ''[[Literature/Emperor|Emperor]]'' books ensures that her brothels are staffed entirely by girls like this. She herself also qualifies, and is so successful that she can influence the senate.
* ''[[Thais of Athens]]'' stars the (in)famous Greek hetaera of the title as the protagonist. There is also her best friend Aegesichore.
* Discussed in ''[[The Wise Man's Fear]]'': Denna rescues a runaway girl forced to play prostitute to make ends meet from a violent client, then has a long talk with her about how if she doesn't want to return home she can at least make herself one of these. The glamor only goes so far, though: Denna compares a [[High
* Mona Sofia from Federico Andajhazi's ''The Anatomist'' is the most beautiful, cynical, and expensive prostitute in the whole Venetian Republic. A whole chapter is dedicated to the [[Squick|squicky]] circumstances behind her success. {{spoiler|She meets an anvilicious and tragically ironic end.}}
** Also {{spoiler|Ines de Torquemada, after [[Break the Cutie|being emotionally broken.]] [[Tear Jerker|She doesn't end up much better]].}}
* ''[[In Death]]'': Charles Monroe is definitely a High Class Call Boy. Eve is friends with him, even though his profession bothers him. There is this one [[High
== Live-Action TV ==
* Joanie Stubbs in ''[[Deadwood]]''. At the beginning of the series she has graduated from High Class Call Girl to Bottom Girl and manages the other whores. She goes on to open her own brothel staffed exclusively by High Class Call Girls. {{spoiler|It doesn't work out.}}
* Belle de Jour from ''[[Secret Diary of a Call Girl]]''. [[Based on a True Story]].
* Sam's first girlfriend in the ''[[The West Wing]]''
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* Ted ''believed'' that the date Barney got her for an award ceremony was one in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. The series of [[Accidental Innuendo|Accidental Innuendos]] (some of which were extreme cases of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - you can't really make a more direct reference to anal sex on prime time TV...) didn't help. {{spoiler|She actually ''was'' a paralegal.}}
* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1 E11 The Politics of Human Sexuality|The Politics Of Human Sexuality]] Pierce's girlfriend Doreen is an escort. Curiously (considering this is Pierce we're discussing), he ''doesn't'' have to pay for a date with her. {{spoiler|At least initially.}}
* Reed from ''[[Homeland]]'', who is part of sheik's harem. One character calls her a hooker, another a paid girlfriend.
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* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has two different classes of prostitutes who can be solicited, the other group being [[The Woobie|very destitute]].
* If you don't do so well in'' [[Princess Maker]] 2'', but just enough to give your daughter good stats (specially Charisma and Refinement), she may end up being a high class prostitute. In the ending picture she's seen completely naked on a bad and giving you a mischievous wink.
** Don't forget to make her Sin over 100!
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'': While Sha'ira the Consort and her Acolytes are ''technically'' more than prostitutes (one of the Acolytes specialities is ''speech''), the Consort's Chambers are located on the Presidium and '''opposite''' the Citadel Embassies.
** A news report in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' mentions that Sha'ira was forced to leave the Citadel following some sort of scandal over her spreading her customer's secrets. Bizarrely, this happens even if the player helped her out with the false claims in the previous game.
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* Ashley Dupre, the call girl who brought down former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Is now an [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/spitzer_babe_answers_4duaVqTCJHA38suGawuaiM advice columnist] for the ''[[New York Post]]''.
* Sydney Biddle Barrows, "The Mayflower Madam", and her employees.
* Courtesans the world over, including regional variations like oiran in Japan and hetaera in ancient Greece.
* Empress Theodora of the Eastern Roman Empire was not an example of this. She was an actress and borderline prostitute who worked her way up to a higher class of client, including eventually becoming the mistress of the future Emperor Justinian and having him overturn many laws on Marriage for prostitutes to higher class Romans. Belisarius, the top General of the Emperor, however was then free to marry his own high class prostitute mistress.
** Theodora's sister, Comito, was however one of the leading courtesans of the period.
* Heidi Fleiss, the "Hollywood Madam".
* The oiran of Japan were the High Class Call Girls of their time and culture. The most beautiful, most high ranked oiran were of high demand and charged accordingly, and their job, along the laying down part, consisted of partying with their clients. Geisha, high class entertainers [[Did Not Do the Research|sometimes mistaken as prostitutes]], were often called to entertain both the oiran and her customers.
* [[wikipedia:Phryne|Phryne]], a [[wikipedia:Hetaera|hetaera]] from ancient Greece, was so beautiful that she may have been the model for multiple statues of [[Classical Mythology|Aphrodite]] and eventually grew so rich that she offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes so long as the words ''destroyed by [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]], restored by Phryne the courtesan'' were inscribed on them. Coincidentally, she was a native of Thespiae, where Eros, the god of love/sexual desire, was the most worshipped deity.
** She is also famous for being acquitted after taking off her clothes before the jury. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: in [[Ancient Greece]], [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]. More specifically, the charge was blasphemy, on the grounds that modeling for a statue of Aphrodite implied that she felt she was ''as beautiful as'' the goddess.<ref>Or the sculptor thought she was, but no one put ''him'' on trial.</ref> So her lawyer gave the jury a '''good''' look at Exhibit A, and they ruled in her favor.
* A generation before Phryne, [[wikipedia:Aspasia|Aspasia]] may or may not have been a ''hetaera''; on one hand, it's recorded in several sources, but on the other hand, several of these were basically Ancient Athens' equivalent of stand-up comics making jokes about her lover Pericles, so it might just have been [[Memetic Mutation]]. However, being beautiful and a (Greek) foreigner (from Miletos), it's not too far a stretch to believe that she might have run the Ancient Greek equivalent of an escort service (prostitution was one of the few areas of work open to free, single, foreign women, and she didn't become Pericles' SO, believed to have had a major influence on his opinions and oratory, right when she arrived in Athens).
* The originally anonymous [[wikipedia:Belle de Jour (writer)|writer]] of [http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/ Belle de Jour] wrote a memoir about her experiences as a call girl, ''[[wikipedia:The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl|The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl]]''. In a story that made newspapers, the mystery surrounding her true identity eventually lead [[Hot Scientist|Dr. Brooke Magnati]] to reveal herself to public.
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