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{{trope|wppage=Hooker with a heart of gold}}
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{{quote|''"You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month -- he must have been a happy man."''
|'''Cheyenne'''|''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]''}}
▲{{quote|''"You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month -- he must have been a happy man."'' |'''Cheyenne''', ''[[Once Upon a Time In The West]]''}}
This is a sex worker (Prostitute, Stripper, or Porn Star) who is a good person and might become a love interest for a main character. Underneath the sex kitten exterior there's actually a sweet, innocent flower that needs nurturing. If she doesn't get killed off by an angry pimp, you can typically expect her past to either be quickly forgotten or be mentioned / alluded to constantly.
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This trope is [[Older Than Feudalism]], dating all the way back to [[wikipedia:Aspasia|Aspasia]] with Pericles.
This trope is only about prostitutes and other professional sex workers. For people who have casual sex [[For Happiness|for the pleasure of it]] rather than for money, see instead [[Good Bad Girl]] and [[Ethical Slut]]. However, the tropes can overlap when it comes to the most benevolent forms of sex work. Both are liable to be against any form of sex work that is exploitative and/or emotionally damaging, but might consider some forms relatively safe and thus approve of them.
Sometimes these women
▲This trope is only about prostitutes and other professional sex workers. For people who have casual sex [[For Happiness|for the pleasure of it]] rather than for money, see instead [[Good Bad Girl]] and [[Ethical Slut]]. However, the tropes can overlap when it comes to the most benevolent forms of sex work. Both are liable to be against any form of sex work that is exploitative and/or emotionally damaging, but might consider some forms relatively safe and thus approve of them.
Some may take pity on a protagonist and offer him or her a place in [[This Bed of Roses]].▼
▲Sometimes these women haves suffered from the horrors of prostitution, and sometimes even women violently forced into prostitution can fit into this trope.
See also [[Asian Hooker Stereotype]], [[Gold Digger]], [[High Class Call Girl]], and [[Son of a Whore]].
▲Some may take pity on a protagonist and offer him or her a place in [[This Bed of Roses]].
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the second episode of the ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' series, Yohji Kudo meets and befriends the prostitute Maki, who betrays her pimp for him and ends up dead because of it. Yohji later kills the pimp both to avenge her and because the pimp was one of the targets of Weiss' original mission. Meeting Maki just made the pimp seem that much more despicable, so he enjoys it more than he would have otherwise.
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* Marida Cruz from "[[Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn]]" also fits this trope perfectly: while initially your usual, stoic character, she turns out to be one of the most fleshed out characters in the story, and offers Banagher insight, advice and even encouragement. In addition, she also cares greatly for her "princess", and her "Master", Suberoa.
* [[Son of a Whore|Mako "Nakama" Nakarai]]'s [[Hot Mom]], Miko, in ''[[Bokurano]]''.
* In ''[[Grenadier]]'', [[Hot Amazon]] Touko Kurenai opens a brothel-complex after retiring as a member of the Ten Heavenly Enlightened. Said red-light-district is a neutral zone which serves as a sanctuary for war-weary warriors and a refuge for survivors of violence, as well as offers redemption for perpetrators of violence who wish to reform themselves.
* Helena Montoya from the manga ''[[
* In a roundabout way, Peorth of ''[[Ah!
* Implied but never fully confirmed in regards to Terry's first girlfriend Lily from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' first movie. She's very beautiful, [[Hourglass Hottie|curvy]], nicknamed the "Queen of South Town", first wears a [[Woman in White|white dress with]] a generous cleavage, is a part of [[Big Bad|Geese Howard]]'s entourage, and throws a rose in the air with the promise of spending a whole night with the man who catches
* Yumi Komagata in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', loyal to her lover Makoto Shishio until the very end, as well as a [[Broken Bird]] and Soujiro's [[Cool Big Sis]].
** [[Son of a Whore|Yahiko]]'s [[Ill Girl]] mother was this before she died, and when an enemy tries to use his mother's profession as a slur against Yahiko [[Shut UP, Hannibal|he replies that he's proud to be her son]] since she did everything she could to take care of him.
* Inami from ''[[Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden]]'', who was a brothel madam before joining Takiko and her group.
* ''[[
* [[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Stacy-X was a member of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' after her brothel was destroyed, and had a rivalry with Husk for Archangel's affections. Sadly, she was [[Put
**
* In ''Year One,'' [[Frank Miller]]'s reboot of ''[[
* Averted in ''[[Sin City]]'' where the prostitutes of Old Town are armed to the teeth and are willing to mow down anyone who gets in their way. [[Black and Grey Morality|Which still]] [[Crapsack World|makes them better]] [[Wretched Hive|than the ones they do mow down]].
* [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SjBUFj3jDSY/SFAgzEHcQtI/AAAAAAAAHfc/_fEmNl-Y00U/s1600/11qua_seriemes_quino.jpg An example] from Argentinian cartoonist [[Quino]]
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== [[Fan
* Joey in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
▲* Joey in the [[Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]] fanfiction ''[[Decks Fall Everyone Dies (Fanfic)|Decks Fall]] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6474469/1/Decks_Fall_Everyone_Dies Everyone Dies]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Once Upon a Time
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* Vivian Ward of the the [[Julia Roberts]] film ''[[Pretty Woman]]''.
* The Tarantino film ''[[True Romance]]'', played straight if very very fast.
* ''[[Killing Zoe]]'', by former Tarantino writing partner [[The Rules of Attraction|Roger Avary]], can best be described as what happens when a
* ''[[The Girl Next Door (
* Lynn Bracken from ''[[
* Prostitute Jessica Kamen from the Jet Li film ''[[Kiss of the Dragon]]'', who's forcibly given drugs when she refuses to take them, and does at least look and act somewhat trashier than most examples.
* Bree Daniels in ''[[Klute]]''.
* Cookie Williams in ''[[
* ''[[The Wedding Date]]'' features a woman who falls for the ''male'' escort she hires to pose as her boyfriend.
* The Soiled Dove is brilliantly subverted in [[Robert Altman]]'s ''[[McCabe and Mrs. Miller]]''. "All you've cost me so far is money and pain, pain, pain, pain..."
* Ophelia in ''[[Trading Places]]''. She explains that she might be a hooker, but she does not use drugs, she does not have a pimp, and at her current pace she will have enough money to retire in five years, which puts her far in advance of many other women, both in and out of her profession. She helps out Winthrope because she feels guilty that she accidently ruined his relationship with his fiancée.
* Linda Ash in ''[[Mighty Aphrodite]]''.
* Parodied / lampshaded in the trope-attacking movie ''[[Rustlers' Rhapsody]]'', when the cowboy breezes into town and the drunk offers to show him how it is, he points out a prostitute. "But I bet she has a heart of gold." "How did you know?"
* Mona Stangley in ''[[The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas]]''.
* The stripper Cassidy in ''[[The Wrestler]]''. She represents Randy's second chance at living his life outside of the shadow of his former wrestling career. {{spoiler|He ultimately spurns her love for a most likely suicidal wrestling match}}.
* Donna Quintano in ''[[Shoot
* Straight example of the Soiled Dove: Dallas in ''[[Stagecoach]]''.
* V from the Melanie Griffith film ''[[Milk Money]]''.
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* Paul Muni encounters one in ''[[I Am a Fugitive
* Myra in ''[[Waterloo Bridge]]''.
* Irma ([[Shirley MacLaine]]) in the [[Billy Wilder]] romantic comedy ''[[Irma La Douce]]''.
* Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) in ''[[Risky Business]]''.
* Belinda in ''[[
* All four main characters in ''[[Bad Girls Film]] Bad Girls''.
* Sera (Elisabeth Shue) in ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]''
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* In ''$30'', a short film contained in the collection [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265101/ Boys Life 3], a young gay man is forced by his father to have sex with a prostitute. Luckly for him, the girl had a heart of gold and pretended to [[The Immodest Orgasm|climax]]. The father [[Happily Ever After|bit it and everybody got what they wanted.]]
* Gaby, the "P with the H of G" in the story-within-a-story in ''[[Paris When It Sizzles]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The title character of ''[[The Goddess]]'' (played by Ruan Lingyu, Chinese movie star of the 1930s) is a woman who engages in prostitution in order to support her young son.
* Delilah in ''[[Unforgiven]]'' is the sweetest and most innocent of the working girls, whose ill treatment at the hands of a gang of bad cowboys is the kick-off point for the movie's plot. A case can also be made for Strawberry Alice fitting this trope, as she's the unofficial leader of the working girls and her prime motivation throughout the film is avenging Delilah and defending the other girls.
* In ''[[The Godson]]'', not only is Goldy one of these, she has a short monologue where she [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|identifies the trope itself.]]
* Bree (Alia Shawkat) in ''[[
* Jess from ''[[Cornered]]''
* [[Megan Fox]] plays Lilah, an archetypal soiled dove, in ''[[Jonah Hex (
* Alexandra from ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* In David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' series, a Madam cares very much for her girls. Especially in the lawless world below the Net, she is a rare example of a truly good person in the series.
* Sofia Semenovna Marmeladova from [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]]'s ''[[
* Nancy from ''[[Oliver Twist]]''. It's only implied in the original, but in the foreword to a later edition, Dickens confirmed that she was in fact a prostitute.
* Emily's best friend Martha from ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'' is explicitely said to be this. The people of Yarmouth except for the Peggotty family hated her to death because of this, so Emily helped her to leave for London so she won't carry the stigma anymore. {{spoiler|Martha later becomes a [[Chekhov's Gunman|Chekhov's Gunwoman]], helping Daniel and David find the missing Emily.}}.
* Kamala in [[
* [[
* Traditionally, Mary Magdalene, friend of Jesus has been depicted as a harlot, but this comes from tradition and not from [[The Bible
** There is a scriptural example in the Old Testament, with Rahab (see Joshua 2), helping two Israelite spies escape Jericho. She even ends up as one of Jesus's ancestors.
** The Book of Hosea is a subversion. The prophet Hosea was told by God to marry the harlot Gomer (no, not that [[The Andy Griffith Show|Gomer]]) as a metaphor for God's relationship with Israel. [[Humans Are
* This ''is'' a character type that shows up in a lot of Christian fiction. Can be done extremely well (a la Francine Rivers) or not.
* Grushenka from ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' is depicted as this for most of the book. It doesn't help that [[Hello, Nurse!|her beauty]] is such that a man can't really take his eyes off her. But later on, we learn that she's a nice person at heart, not the manipulative slut we'd imagined. Some people would be disappointed by that.
* Reet, Carrot's acquaintance in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
** [[Punny Name|Rosie Palm]] is shown as a regular seamstress in ''[[
** The SoLid DoVEs in ''[[
* Esmenet, one of the main characters of ''[[Second Apocalypse]]'', is like this.
* Fantine in ''[[Les Misérables (
* ''[[Striptease]]'', by [[Carl Hiaasen]], hinges on this trope: Erin Grant becomes a stripper, but only because she has to do something lucrative to pay off her legal fees from trying to get custody of her daughter from her sleazeball ex-husband. She never actually has much of a romance with anybody, let alone being saved by [[The Power of Love]], and she gets the happiest ending of anyone in the book.
* The eponymous prostitute/pimp/crime boss from ''[[Cyberpunk|Burning Chrome]]'' is a total subversion. Hooker with a heart of steel, indeed.
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* Vita from ''[[Incarnations of Immortality|And Eternity]]''.
* Kate from ''[[East of Eden]]'' is the complete inverse of this trope, the Hooker With A Heart of Pure Malice.
** Despite having written such a heavy subversion, [[
* Tránsito Soto from [[Isabel Allende]]'s ''[[The House Of Spirits]]''.
* Jude Keller in ''The Passion of Mary-Margaret'' by Lisa Samson. An unusual version of the trope as Jude Keller is male.
* The [[Shadowleague]] books give us Rochalla, who is only a prostitute because she needs to buy medicine for her younger brothers and sisters, all of whom are dying of the plague.
* Honoré de Balzac, being a 19th century author, ''loves'' this trope. In his works, we find Esther in ''Scenes from a Courtesan's Life'', Coralie in ''Lost Illusions'', arguably Marana in ''The Maranas'' short story or even the eponymous ''Girl with the Golden Eyes'' (though there are [[Depraved Bisexual|other]] [[Psycho Lesbian|issues]] at work there)... Of course, it tends to [[Redemption Equals Death|end badly]] for the poor girl. Generally speaking, Balzac likes his [[Good Bad Girl]]s.
* This is double subverted in ''Got'', a crime novel by an anonymous author who goes by the letter D. The protagonist has had several (paid) experiences with the prostitute in question, and strongly respects her even though he is aware she does not love him. Then he happens to bring a [[Briefcase Full of Money]] to their latest tryst, on his way to deliver it to a crime boss, and of course she can't resist the temptation to steal it. The double subversion comes in that she's not the villain
* Xaviera Hollander described herself as this in her autobiography ''The Happy Hooker''.
* Alma Schmidt (aka "Lorene"), Prewitt's girlfriend in James Jones' ''[[From Here to Eternity]]''. (In the film version, this was sanitized by making the character a "hostess" at a nightclub.)
* Mrs. Eames from John Irving's ''[[The Cider House Rules]]'' might count as this.
* Belle Watling, the madam with a heart of gold, in ''[[Gone
* Lula from the [[Stephanie Plum]] novels...sort of. When she first meets Stephanie, she is, indeed, a ho'; after she's maimed lightly and tied up on Stephanie's fire escape, she opts to leave the sexing life to become a bounty hunter herself. She routinely brings up "back when I was a ho'" as it relates to the current situation. She has kind of a stereotypical "sassy black woman" attitude about her that would conflict less with the trope if she were smarter in general. She's incredibly gung-ho about the ''idea'' of being a bounty hunter, but, as a consequence of aforementioned not-that-brightness, she has a tendency to [[Stop Helping Me!|make things worse]].
* ''[[In Death]]'': Played with. It is played straight with one licensed companion in ''Purity In Death'', but it is made clear that she is still young, shiny, and innocent. Then you have Charles Monroe, who is a male licensed companion who eventually left the profession to become a sex therapist. Some of the prostitutes are portrayed as between good and bad, and some of them are [[Complete Monster
* In the Naguib Mahfouz novel, ''The Thief and the Dogs,'' there's a character named Nur. She's been in love with the main character since before the story began, is sweet, helpful, honest, and is portrayed as a victim swept up in the [[Anti-Hero]]'s rampage of murder and crime, all the while remaining dogmatically optimistic about her lot in life and determined to overcome it. Oh, and did I mention she's a prostitute?
* Corbie in ''[[
* Trope is very common in novels which deal with adventurous characters, where most prostitutes are treated with uncanny sympathy. James Clavell's [[Asian Saga]] springs to mind. Part [[Justified Trope|justified]] as the usual enviroment where the characters live (sailors, adventurer merchants, military men on and around the battlefield) has few opportunities to allow people make friends and build relationships outside - if Character X's nearest woman in many miles is a hooker, after some time they will become good friends, for sheer necessity if anything.
* The prostitute Boule de Suif in [[Guy
== [[Live
* In the 1988 ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' Christmas special "Dates", Raquel Turner was introduced as one of these. She wanted to be an actress, but could only get not-real-acting jobs like stripogram or (in her second appearance) magician's assistant.
* In a similar vein there was Cassiopeia on [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original ''
** [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The
* Laurie, Sam's friend on ''[[
** Lisa Edelstein is believable as a call girl, as opposed to a streetwalker. She's no less convincing as a law student than as [[House (TV series)|a doctor]]. It's the combination that requires a [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]. Oddly enough, she shows more cleavage in her role as a doctor than in her role as a call girl.
* Jeremy on ''[[
* Subverted to hell and back by ''[[Carnivale]]'s'' Rita Sue Dreifuss, the hooker with a heart of steel; while not entirely lacking in tender feelings, she verges at times on becoming an [[Evil Matriarch]] or female [[Magnificent Bastard]]. She also happens to be one of this editor's all-time favorite characters, ever.
* Anita the Hooker on ''[[Becker]]''.
* Myra from ''[[Dr. Quinn
* One of the early TV protoypes: ''[[Gunsmoke]]'s'' Miss Kitty. Yeah, the show never mentioned what she and the other girls did at the Long Branch. But who couldn't guess? This was a lot more obvious in the original radio version of the show.
* The brothel workers in the Australian cable TV series ''[[Satisfaction]]'' are mostly of this type.
* A third-season ep of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' involves a client who wants to find a girl he met at a sci-fi con (which he didn't even indulge in)... Who turns out to have been a call girl hired by his friends to provide him with a "date" experience and sex ...who when she's found claims to have fallen for him in turn...and then it gets complicated.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Saxondale]]'', when an old friend from Tommy's roadie days drags him along to a night on the town and ends up hiring a couple of prostitutes for them both. Tommy ends up sitting next to her on the girl's bed making embarrassed small-talk (he's in a steady relationship) and, much to his bemusement, she ends up giving him some well-meaning advice on how he can take better care of his eyes so that he doesn't need to rely on his glasses as much; turns out she's an optometry student in her day job.
* [[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Hutch]] unknowingly falls for one of these in the episode "Gillian". She tries to get out of the job, [[Cartwright Curse|but doesn't make it]].
* ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'':
** One sketch showed a man falling in love with a prostitute and intends to take her away from all of this, but she shows no interest in it other than saying "Eh, it's your money". Years later, after they are ''married, and living together in the suburbs with children'', the man runs out of cash, and the woman walks out and gets her Pimp (who is by now an old man in a wheelchair) to hassle him. The sketch ends on a [[Black Comedy]] note: the man is now asked by his kids when mommy was coming back.
** Another parody: a man walks up to the two recurring streetwalker characters in a sketch and tells them he's looking for "a hooker with a heart of gold." He laughs in their faces, but then they tell him: "Oh, you want Wendy. She's three blocks away in front of the donut shop. ...And don't you let her give you a freebie!"
* In an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', the patient of the week collapses in her home just as she was about to be pleased by a callgirl. At first the girl plans to just run off with the money, but after a stern look from the woman's cat, she calls an ambulance and ends up sticking by her through the whole ordeal.
* In an episode of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Justine Bateman plays a highly paid hooker who Michael (played by her brother, Jason Bateman) mistakes for his long lost sister. He hires her as an accountant due to this misunderstanding, and puts her in charge of a huge amount of money. Michael suggests the fact she doesn't steal it means that she isn't his sister.
* Kelly Ball, a character from Channel 4's ''[[Shameless]]'' fits this trope. She is a better parental figure to Liam Gallagher than any other character.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live
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'''Bartender''': It also makes you wonder. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|How do people have sex with her]]? }}
* The character KC Koloski on ''[[China Beach]]'' might at times seem to be a subversion or aversion of this trope, but with the way she constantly helps the others (even when she seemingly doesn't want to, she does it anyhow), she's actually an embodiment of it.
* Robin from ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' - a thoughtful and kind-hearted (reformed) stripper.
* The ''[[
* Heavily averted in ''[[The Shield]]''. The show includes two major hooker characters, but they brutally depict them suffering from every kind of abuse you can name.
* Messed with in ''[[
* From a ''Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV'' sketch:
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* In ''[[
* Ruby in ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
== Manhwa ==
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== [[Music]] ==
* In the [[Rock Opera]] ''[[Operation Mindcrime]]'' by [[
* In [[Cab Calloway]]'s famous song "Minnie the Moocher", Minnie is basically this.
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* "Three Wooden Crosses", a country song by Randy Travis, portrays a prostitute as the hero; the single mother of the singer, who survived a Horrible Accident. Ironically, Travis is, more than any other popular country singer, largely associated with gospel music these days.
* Hallelujah, a reoccurring character in many albums release by The Hold Steady, swings back and forth between a very sympathetic prostitute and devout Catholic, sometimes at once.
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* [[Dashboard Confessional]]'s "Belle of the Boulevard".
* [[Tom Waits]]'s "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" is, well basically, a Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis. She tries to paint herself as this, talking about how she's turning her life around. In reality it is a subversion, as the hooker is in jail and is writing for bail money.
* Canadian band The Dreadnoughts give us [[Long Title|the bountifully titled]] [[Exactly What It Says
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== [[Theater]] ==
* Of all things, the musical ''[[Starlight Express]]'', notable for all of its cast being locomotives or railroad cars, has Belle, [
* ''[[Rent]]'' has Mimi Marquez, a dancer at an S&M club. She still manages to get Roger's heart.
* Lucy in the musical ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|Jekyll & Hyde]]''.
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* Not a main character, but a side-quest in ''[[The Witcher]]'' involves a "Street wise cop, whore with a heart of gold, true love". The chief of the Watch falls in love with a high class prostitute and through their love and the help of Geralt, they break his curse of lycanthropy. It's about the only point of light in the [[Crapsack World]] that is The Witcher. Unless of course, you kill him.
* Yuka from ''[[Crescendo]]''. Her reasons for her descent into this lifestyle are [[Broken Bird|tragic]] and [[The Woobie|sad]]. You can get the bad ending by being a total bastard (it's heavily implied your protagonist is not that kind of guy anyway, making [[Guilt Based Gaming|you]] the bastard) and sleeping with her for sex, or you can get the good ending by not taking advantage of her {{spoiler|(and both of you can laid together of your own free will in much happier circumstances)}} and redeem her.
* In ''[[
* Lauren from ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' forces her way into Scott Shelby's investigation of the Origami Killer, despite the danger, to bring her son's killer to justice. {{spoiler|If she survives and your other characters don't catch the killer, she succeeds.}}
* Nova in ''[[Fallout 3]]'' is the town prostitute in Megaton. Moriarty forces her to do this, and if you kill him, then she will abandon prostitution and co-own his bar with Moriarty's other worker he enslaved via debt.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Diane in ''[[RPG World]]''. Subverted by the eventual discovery that {{spoiler|although her class is officially "Harlot," she's never actually done the deed and is in fact rather naive when it comes to sex.}}
* Diana and Paul in ''[[
* The pornstar/director/producer Zig Zag from ''[[
* Not a love interest, but ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' has Danika the stripper, whose life is spared by [[Knight Templar]] Celesto when he finds out she's a single mother.
* Geilen from fantasy comic ''[[Garanos]]'' is not a love interest for anyone, {{spoiler|though it's implied later that she slept with Senberan to get information, and possibly had a relationship with the captive Ethreden}}, but admitted her profession openly soon after being introduced and doesn't seem especially ashamed of it. Possibly subverted later {{spoiler|when she's revealed to be [[The Mole]] for Gharsena, but it seems she was only doing it to get the cure for the disease she has, and once she finds out that Gharsena ''made'' the disease she turns on her, but sadly suffers [[Redemption Equals Death]]}}.
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* Lou Dem Five in ''[[Buck Godot]]: Zap Gun For Hire'' is a madame with a heart of gold. No, really, she's quite nice and basically founded what eventually became a franchise for the purpose of making sure the girls got an even break. Her best worker, Sizzlin' Sue is also an example of this.
* In ''[[Ménage à 3]]'', this is Gary's [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090716.html vision] of his favourite porn-star Amber-Amber.
* In ''[[Dreamless]]'', the male lead Takashi's friends hire him a prostitute. He is not amused. The woman is very accepting of his explanation that he's not interesting in getting his money's worth, and proves herself to be quite pleasant.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Metroid|Samus Aran]], of all people, serves this role in ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]''.
* [[The Cinema Snob
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s BFF Nella has a "schoolteacher who is also a whore with a heart of gold" in her [https://web.archive.org/web/20140722220428/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/17773-my-little-pony My Little Pony melodrama]
* [http://askicepack.tumblr.com/ Ice Pack], a fan-made Zebra escort in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Six of ''[[Tripping the Rift]]'' is a former sex slave, until a programming upgrade made her too smart and sensible to suit that line of work.
* Subverted in ''[[The Boondocks]]'', where Granddad dates Cristal, who is obviously a prostitute and [[Gold Digger]], but Granddad refuses to believe it. He is eventually forced to confront it when her pimp shows up. Despite a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] / [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Heartwarming]] moment where he defends Cristal's (supposed) honor to the pimp, she ultimately chooses to go back with him rather than stay with Granddad, even though he's clearly fallen for her quite hard by this point.
* Belle in the ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart After Dark," could be considered an example.
** Then again, she runs a burlesque house, so make of that what you will.
* Hilariously subverted on the Canadian cartoon ''[[Kevin Spencer]]'' when Kevin's mother Anastasia leaves her family and is walking through the streets when she meets a wealthy man who thinks she is a prostitute, mostly because she typically works as one. He gives Anastasia this treatment, but she remains as much of a fat, disgusting, alcoholic, lowbrow slob as she ever was and the rich man kicks her out of the house at the end of the episode.
* Referenced in ''[[
* Parodied in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Hell is Other Robots", there is Hooker-bot 5000, programmed with a heart of solid gold.
* Ms. Cartman is the nicest parent on ''[[South Park]]'' but ends up in German porn and on the cover of ''Crack Whore'' magazine.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://www.dearcupid.org/question/should-i-enjoy-being-a-prostitute-this-much.html This woman.]
* [[Ancient Rome|Livy]] records a story about the Hispala Faecenia, a prostitute who supported her well-born lover Aebutius when his mother and step-father stole his inheritance; when they tried to [[Offing the Offspring|get him out of the way]], she stepped in to save him and ended up being instrumental in suppressing the [[The Conspiracy|Bacchanalian Conspiracy]] in 186 B.C.E.
* Empress Theodora of the Eastern Roman Empire.She was originally an actress, and in those times acting involved sexual acts by pretty much default, so she used her good looks as well as her sexual prowess, her brains and her [[Plucky Girl]] personality to go up the Byzantine society.
* Deconstructed: [[Samuel Pepys]] (who preferred to harass his maids and his dependent employees' wives rather than resort to prostitutes) references it in his diary in the 1660s, and wonders if men see whores as being better than they are because it makes them feel less guilty about whoring.
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* Courtesan Kitty Fisher who went on to marry money was known for her generosity to the poor.
* Coupled with [[Real Joke Name]] Australian gold medalist Steven Hooker commented on one of the [[Fan Nickname]] involving his accomplishment.
* Possibly, Rahab, a wealthy harlot who lived in Jericho and kept two Hebrew scouts from being discovered by the city guards. This allowed them to return and relay the information to Joshua, which led to the capture of the city. Rahab, for her kindness, was spared by the conquerors. The city of Jericho was pretty much doomed anyway since Joshua and his army had strict orders to level it. Rahab saved
* Julia Bunette prostitute/brothel madam turned her brothel into a hospital when local miners got sick and donated money to the Union side of the Civil War
* Former child star and former drug addict prostitute Lauren Chaplin won awards for her numerous charity work including raising over $2m for underprivileged and abused children and setting up an organisation to help children in the entertainment industry avoid being exploited
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