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== Live-Action TV == |
== Live-Action TV == |
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* The various Companion temples in ''[[Firefly]]''. |
* The various Companion temples in ''[[Firefly]]''. |
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* The Wife Bank in ''[[Lexx]]'', at which unwanted girls are abandoned by their parents, raised in boxes by impersonal holograms to be fawning and sexually insatiable, and then given as presents to the sons of upper-class families. (Graduates who "fail to perform their wifely duties" are electronically brainwashed into "love slaves", with an unstable, psychotic, one-track-minded |
* The Wife Bank in ''[[Lexx]]'', at which unwanted girls are abandoned by their parents, raised in boxes by impersonal holograms to be fawning and sexually insatiable, and then given as presents to the sons of upper-class families. (Graduates who "fail to perform their wifely duties" are electronically brainwashed into "love slaves", with an unstable, psychotic, one-track-minded devotion—and an ''expiry date.'' Yep, [[Crapsack World]].) |
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{{quote|'''Holographic Matron:''' Lesson 376. Your husband asks you, "Do you think I'm fat?" What is the correct answer? |
{{quote|'''Holographic Matron:''' Lesson 376. Your husband asks you, "Do you think I'm fat?" What is the correct answer? |
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1. "No!" |
1. "No!" |
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* It's claimed the KGB had one of these in [[Real Life]], to train [[Honey Trap]] agents. |
* It's claimed the KGB had one of these in [[Real Life]], to train [[Honey Trap]] agents. |
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* Jay Leno once commented on reports that a real one had opened up in Amsterdam. "I don't know which would be worse: failing out or being Valedictorian." |
* Jay Leno once commented on reports that a real one had opened up in Amsterdam. "I don't know which would be worse: failing out or being Valedictorian." |
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* High-class |
* High-class prostitutes—geisha, hetairai, courtesans—often had to be trained for the high-class portion of their occupations. |
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** Geisha are not prostitutes. They weren't even taught sexual acts, and focused on the arts, like music and dancing. |
** Geisha are not prostitutes. They weren't even taught sexual acts, and focused on the arts, like music and dancing. |
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