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The contrast between some of the more [[Fetish Fuel|risque aspects]] of this trope and the [[Crapsack World]] environment it usually occurs in can often create [[Unfortunate Implications]]. In some works, the slavery can [[Stockholm Syndrome|develop]] into a [[Property of Love|mutual relationship]]. Expect [[Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me]], [[Go-Go Enslavement]], and/or a [[Slave Collar]].
 
Unfortunately, this is [[Truth in Television]], although [[No Yay|generally]] [[Squick|quite]] [[Sick and Wrong|different]] from the fetishised fantasy. [[wikipedia:Forced prostitution|Forced prostitution]] in general amounts to this. Human trafficking in particular is one of the biggest ways that people are enslaved like this.
 
[[No Real Life Examples, Please]] <ref> No, really, it's horrific enough to be considered a [[wikipedia:Crimes against humanity|crime against humanity]], which means that even [[Brain Bleach]] is not enough to heal the scars it inflicts on the soul. This isn't just about the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment]], it's to help us remain sane and non-misanthropic. </ref>
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Dragon Pink]]'': The protagonist of this Hentai Manga and Anime is Pink, whose "class" (in RPG terms) is being a sex slave for the party leader. After the third chapter a curse turns her into a [[Catgirl]], which makes her fall even further down the social scale, from a sex slave into a sexual pet.
* ''[[Yuria 100 Shiki]]'': If [[Sex Bot|Dutch Wife]] Yuria has sex with someone, and she automatically becomes programmed to become said person's sex slave.
* ''[[Night Shift Nurses]]'': the titular nurses are trained as sex slaves.
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* Sex slaves are the primary source of income for the Ulfan organization in the [[Hentai]] ''[[Bondage Queen Kate]]''.
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'':
** In the manga version, the group enters a [[Lady Land]], and the [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|guys must dress like women]] to get through safely.
** One of the omakes in the OVA takes it to a more comedic level. A drag-queen Mitsukake apparently looks disgusting enough to have his face censored and make the rest of the cast [[Blue with Shock]], and is still singled out to become the [[Sex Slave]]. Then Tamahome and Tasuki drop their disguises and willingly and gleefuly volunteer to become slaves themselves, much to Miaka's chargin.
** Also, Soi was sold to a brothel by her impoverished family when she was a little girl. At the age of 12, she is [[Attempted Rape|about to be]] [[Rape as Drama|punished]] by her pimp for refusing to have sex with a client, but is rescued by Nakago. (She is also "used" by him for her sexual healing powers, but does so willingly out of love, [[Love Martyr|even knowing that the love is more or less one-sided.]])
** The emperor of Kutou kept [[Cute Shotaro Boy|Nakago]] as a sex slave [[Rape as Backstory|in the past]]. This is Nakago's [[Start of Darkness]].
** This is implied to be what the slave traders truly want to do to Miaka and Yui in the beginning. Miaka tries to fight back, but is overpowered, and then [[Big Damn Heroes|Tamahome]] steps in.
* ''[[Black Butler]] II'': Episode 8 reveals that {{spoiler|old man Trancy captured many [[Shotacon|young boys]] to choose sex slaves from, raped most of them, and Alois ended up being his favorite sex slave right up until either he died of old age, or Alois killed him.}} Also, the flashbacks in the manga to when {{spoiler|Ciel is kept as a self-described 'pet' to the cult members}} has several panels that suggest this probably happened to him.
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* ''Almost'' happens to Kurumi Akino in ''[[Haou Airen]]''. When she has a [[Heroic BSOD]] and tries to run away from Hakuron in the middle of Hong Kong, she's captured by some Triad members who intend to sell her as one; then, they strip and almost rape her. Hakuron finds them and shoots them to death, then takes Kurumi to safety.
* {{spoiler|Tsubaki}} from ''[[Mirai Nikki]]''.
* Much of the plot of ''[[Ai no Kusabi]]'' revolves around how Riki was forcibly [[Made a Slave|Made A Sex Slave]] as a "Pet" and the effect it has on him, his master, and his ex-lover.
* ''[[Master of Martial Hearts]]'': {{spoiler|The fate of those who lose the tournament is to be [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]] into mindlessness and then sold into sexual slavery. This drives the [[Cycle of Revenge]] in the series in general.}}
* ''[[Fencer Of Minerva]]'': Not really bad as others. Slaves traders like Doria is pretty nice an caring guy, and Sho is not bad either, considering he and Diana having [[Childhood Friend Romance]].
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== Comic Books ==
* "The Slavers", a [[Punisher]] arc, has Frank Castle taking on a slave-trafficking ring. The horrible things that the slavers do to the people they've enslaved hits every one of Castle's [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]] concerning mistreatment of women and children in general, resulting in [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|one of his most brutal killing sprees]].
* [[The Incredible Hulk]] features a surprising amount of this. In one story, the Maestro, an insane, evil version of the Hulk, rules the world and keeps a harem of slave girls for this purpose.
* Ninjette of ''[[Empowered]]'' was intended as one for her clan. Training her to be a [[Badass]] ninja first was probably a bad idea. Emp herself is nearly subject to this in the "Cosmolactic Emperor's" harem.
** Ninjette is an unusual case, as her clan's intended use for her isn't as a sex slave per se; the forced sex would have been "merely" a necessary prerequisite for her bearing [[Asian Baby Mama|lots of ninja babies.]]
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** ''Scar Tissue'' has Shinji being raped repeatedly by Asuka. She does it to punish him for his incompetence in ''End of Evangelion'' (and to relieve her own sexual frustration), and Shinji allows her to have her way with him because he truly believes he deserves it. Not to mention that [[Break the Cutie|she's subjecting him to constant emotional and physical torture]] to such an extent that the story begins with Shinji almost dying from the beating he received from her at the end of one of their rape sessions.
** ''To Love Your Brother'' has what appears to be Shinji being sexually abused by a transgender Rei... until it's revealed that Shinji is [[Failure Knight|forcing himself to go through with it out of guilt for letting Asuka and Misato die]] in EoE, and Rei only complies because [[I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy|she wants him to be happy, even if it means making him do degrading things to him]].
** ''Power Plays'' has Asuka and Hikari willingly doing dom/sub with Shinji and Touji, respectively.
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6499617/1/ Contract]'' has Ven becoming one for [[Horny Devil|Van]][[Foe Yay|itas]], after the latter tricks the former into making a contract to bring him out of his [[Deus Angst Machina]] status.
* [[Harry Potter|Severus Snape]]-hating fanfic writers tend to believe that he didn't really love Lily Potter, but rather wanted her as [[Ron the Death Eater|one of these]].
** There's also a [[Fandom Specific Plot]] in the ''Potter'' fandom centered around the fetishized version of this trope. The set-up is as follows: Voldemort has won, Harry and all the "good" characters whom the author doesn't care to write about are dead, and someone (usually Hermione) is made a slave to one of the hotter Death Eaters (most commonly Draco, Snape, or Lucius). It varies whether she is explicitly made into a sex slave or if she's just a slave and the "sex" part is "unofficial". Either way, the set-up is followed by a [[Porn Without Plot]] bondage fantasy, which [[In Name Only|might as well have nothing to do with]] ''Harry Potter''.
* Toyed with in ''[[All He Ever Wanted]]'', where {{spoiler|Hungary coaches Liechstenstein to become this... to Prussia. The guy who, in that fic, ''raped and tortured both of them''.}} Granted, it's less about {{spoiler|"loving and pleasuring him"}} and more about {{spoiler|"manipulating him via sex for their own purposes"}}, but a good part of the Hetalia fandom still finds the whole deal ''very'' ridiculously tasteless and OOC.
** Another fanfic, ''[http://yamirkins.livejournal.com/1333.html An Asian's Harem of Asians]'' has Japan as a [[Complete Monster]] and [[Memetic Molester]] who sexually enslaves '''''many''''' of the Asian nations, [[OC Stand In|OC nations included]]. In the fic itself he personally rapes at least three of them while planning to rape everyone later, and forces the rest to either rape each other or sexually serve him via erotic massages or other stuff. [[Squick]] doesn't begin to describe it, and even worse [[Fridge Horror|when you recall]] [[wikipedia:Comfort Women|what DID happen in Real Life...]]
** Yet another [[Axis Powers Hetalia|APH]] fic, ''[[Debt (fanfic)|Debt]]'', has [[Complete Monster|China]] force America and England (Along [[An Arm and a Leg|with]] [[Eye Scream|some]] [[Tongue Trauma|nasty]] mutilation) into being this. After a few chapters, [[Stockholm Syndrome]] comes in, making the fiction ''very'' unsettling to read.
* According to a majority of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' fanfiction he's in, many fans believe Fenris was once this.
* There is a ''[[Pokémon]]'' fanfiction called ''Captured'' where a young man by the name of Ike is wandering through the woods in search of adventure and he gets captured by a group of 4 female Pokemon, a Mightyena, Zangoose, Ninetails, and a Lucario who is the alpha female/leader of the group, for the purpose of being their collective mate. They explain to him that they were all sexually starving and suffering from being in heat from mating season and that Ike seemed like a suitable young man for mating, and so they keep him as a sex slave for a year and rape him. Lucario explains to Ike that she thinks he has a good deal going on, they will provide food and shelter for him and in return he gets to please them, Ike thinks differently and tries to escape multiple times which makes the Pokemon rape and abuse him harder. Eventually Ike gives in and decides to out-endure the Pokemon during sex so that when they pass out he can finally escape. He succeeds.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Blue Velvet]]'': Dorothy Vallens is forced into this role after her child and husband are kidnapped by a local crime-boss Frank. Eventually, she develops a sort of [[Stockholm Syndrome]] and seems to take a twisted pleasure in Frank's rape at one point.
* In ''[[Don Juan Demarco]]'', the titular mental patient relates a yarn about spending a year in the 'service' of a lusty Sultana. Not that he seems to've minded much. It probably helped that she kept him hidden in the Sultan's harem (apparently she didn't mind sharing.)
* Similar to the Orion girls from ''[[Star Trek]]'' are the [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Twi'lek girls]] from ''[[Star Wars]]''. According to the [[Expanded Universe]] they actually encourage sexual slavery: since they have no spacecraft of their own, becoming [[Sex Slave|sex slaves]] is their primary method of going offworld, with the plan of freeing themselves to get a real job at some point. However, they don't seem to be doing a very good job as it's been this way for thousands of years.
** Averted in the prequel trilogy and [[The Clone Wars]] with Aayla Secura, a female Twi'lek Jedi.
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== Literature ==
* In Anne Bishop's ''[[Black Jewels Trilogy]]'', two of the three main male good guys were pleasure slaves in Courts in Tereille. Aside from Daemon and Lucivar, there's also Jared (pre-Invisible Ring) and a small army of others.
** Jaenelle and the Briarwood girls also count, being kept in a secure facility, drugged, and used for sex on a regular basis.
* The Imperium in ''[[Dune]]'' allows the possession of sex slaves. The Emperor is allowed to have slave-concubines, Baron Harkonnen uses a slave boy as one, and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen spends a lot of his time with the women in the Baron's slave quarters.
* ''[[The Handmaids Tale|The Handmaid's Tale]]'' has a main character who is the sex slave of a military commander.
** It would be more strictly accurate to say that she is a ''breeding'' slave.
* Is a main plot point of the [[John Ringo]] ''[[Paladin of Shadows]]'' series, an extremely guilty pleasure for both the reader ''and'' the writer.
* Romanticized in John Norman's ''[[Gor]]'' series.
* A lot of Werewolf fiction like [[Mercy Thompson]] and [[Kitty Norville]] has a type of sexual slavery. The alpha can have sex with any female he wants, and/or decide the lowest female in the pack can be given to other males as reward and the female has to take it.
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in the ''[[Warchild Series]]''. The pirates take prisoners and sometimes recruit children as geishas, which are only loosely based on the old customs. Mostly, they are sex slaves and sometimes assassins. In the first book, the main character was a prisoner whom the [[Big Bad]] intended to turn into one of these. He escapes without much of the training (but a lot of the abuse). It's not until the third book that one of these slaves becomes a main character. This is not played for [[Fetish Fuel]], but rather [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] to show the psychological ramifications related to such an existence. Very [[Darker and Edgier|dark]] portrayal, really.
* [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''[[Conan]]'' has rescued his share of slave girls in his day, such as Olivia from Shah Amurath in "Iron Shadows in the Moon."
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* [[The Draka]] revel in this trope, with "bedwenches" and "prettybucks" (male serfs "for men so inclined"). At the same time, sex between female Draka and male serfs is forbidden, as are homosexual relations between male Draka. [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|Instead female Draka get it on with]] [[Author Appeal|other female Draka or female serfs.]]
** Depends on the era. After the Draka developed perfect contraception and switched to using serf women to carry Draka fetuses female Draka were allowed to have male sex slaves. And the genetically engineered 'new race' is altered to be universally bisexual, apparently.
* [[Piers Anthony]] invokes this in ''[[Bio of a Space Tyrant]]'', where the hero's older sister Faith gives herself up to pirates as a sex slave in order to save her fellow refugees from being destroyed. [[It Got Worse|Even more dispiriting than it sounds,]] since the family had fled the planet to protect Faith from being raped in the first place.
* Manpower Incorporated's c-line genetic slaves in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' books, which was the origin of a handful of secondary characters including Virginia Usher and Elaine Kormandorski ( {{spoiler|otherwise known as Lady Georgia Young, Countess North Hollow) }}.
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''False Gods'', Maggard is sexually exploited by his mistress. On top of having his vocal cords removed because it was unfitting for him to speak in his mistress's presence.
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* This turns out to be common in ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' as the fate of {{spoiler|physically attractive winners of [[Deadly Game|the Hunger Games]]. The money made from renting them out goes straight to President Snow, but they typically cooperate anyways so as to avoid "accidents" happening to their families. Finnick manages to use this to collect information from the powerful people who purchase him, and after joining the rebels he reveals all the Capitol's dirty laundry in a television broadcast.}}
* A.N. Roquelaure's ''Beauty'' series features more of a sexual indentured servitude. Before they're permitted to take rulership, young nobility and royalty are sent into training as sexual slaves. It's also a means a social mobility, as commoners and lesser nobles may also submit themselves for the same treatment. Slaves may also beg to remain so for life.
* Paolo Bacigalupi's ''[[The Windup Girl]]'' features Emiko, a Japanese Windup abandoned by her master in a [[Dystopia|dystopian]] Bangkok. Windups, or "New People," are genetically altered to have an irrepressible instinct to please and have been trained from birth that they are in a position of servitude. While revered in Japan as works of art and strong workers, they are hated in Bangkok and, in order to avoid being picked up by police and incinerated, Emiko is forced to work in a sex club, where she is routinely humiliated and abused.
** Of note is that Emiko's body has been genetically engineered to feel orgasm automatically under sexual stimulation. When she is raped, she actually ''comes'' - hating every moment of it and despising herself for it. Enjoy your [[Brain Bleach]].
* In J.R. Ward's ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood]]'' series, we learn that Zsadist, kidnapped by his nanny as an infant, was sold into slavery and eventually used as a sex/blood slave by a sadistic mistress. Zsadist is eventually rescued by his twin brother, Phury, and kills his mistress but suffers intense psychological damage. He is considered souless by his fellow Brothers, and dangerous. His book in the series involves him falling in love with a woman and having to overcome (well, not completely) his past.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', the city Yunkai in the Slaver's Bay region is famed for its pleasure slaves trained in the ways of the "seven sighs" and the "sixteen seats of pleasure."
* Vlad Tepes' younger brother Radu is this to the Ottoman army in ''[[Count and Countess]]''.
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* Orion slave girls from ''[[Star Trek]]''.
** These are an interesting example because they were [[Retcon|Ret Conned]] in ''[[Enterprise]]'' into secretly being the ''rulers'' of their race. They used the pretense of being sex-slaves to infiltrate enemy organizations, and then used [[Love Is in the Air|powerful pheromones]] to control any males they wished, as they did with the males of their own species. The whole set-up [[Stealth Pun|came across]] as a bit of an awkward plot device, though, and some argue that this situation carries more [[Unfortunate Implications]] than just playing the trope straight.
** Another interesting ''[[Star Trek|Trek]]'' example: In one episode of the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Original Series]], [[The Kirk|Kirk]] is the well-treated prisoner of the ruler of an [[Planet of Hats|Ancient Rome Planet]]. A female slave is sent to his quarters by his captor. The slave makes it clear (quite suggestively) that she was ''ordered'' to please Kirk. It's left unclear whether Kirk actually has sex with her, but it is clearly at least a possibility.
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. The holodeck program ''The Adventures of Captain Proton!'' (a [[Flash Gordon Serial|Flash Gordon]] expy) has slave girls that the players can rescue. Presumably they are [[Rescue Sex|quite grateful]] to their saviours.
** In ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', Bajoran women were kept as "comfort women" during the Cardassian occupation.
* Warren's ex-girlfriend Katrina in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' almost became this when the Trio (a trio of villainous college-aged nerds turned [[Mad Scientist|mad scientists]]) tested their mind control ray on her. She fought off the mind control before anything could happen, and Warren killed her in the ensuing struggle.
* Zev (or [[The Nth Doctor|Xev]]) of ''[[Lexx]]'' was going to be made one of these, but she broke free before the mental reconditioning was implemented. This conditioning was inflicted instead on 790, the robot drone overseeing the operation. Since the conditioning resulted in the victim falling hopelessly in love with the first person s/he saw next, 790 became obsessed with Zev, devoting himself to her completely.
* In ''[[Dantes Cove|Dante's Cove]]'', Ambrosius [[I Have Your Wife|holds Toby hostage]] to force Kevin to become his sex slave. Later, Griff uses his influence with the Tresum Council to try to get Grace to submit to him similarly, but she outwits him.
* Every Active in ''[[Dollhouse]]'' is used for this frequently.
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', one of the many signs that the ''Pegasus'' crew have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] is their use of a captured Number Six Cylon as a sex slave.
* The final series of the ''[[Murphy's Law]]'' revolves around the search for a missing police officer who has been caught up in a sex slave ring. Does a very good job at describing just how brutal and terrifying the real thing can actually be.
* ''[[The Commish]]'' also has an episode where a 15 year old girl (who used to be the babysitter of the Commisioner's son) is forced into doing porno films. ''And'' pleasing the boss.
* ''[[Lost Girl]]'' plays with this: the closest anyone comes to using the word "slave" to describe Lauren is when she refers to herself as the Ash's property, even though she clearly is a slave, even to the point of wearing a [[Slave Collar]]. She nevertheless enjoys a great deal of prestige within the fae community, and is primarily valuable as a slave for her medical expertise. All the same, when it suits his purpose, the Ash orders her to seduce and sleep with Bo, even though it ends up wrecking her relationship with Bo when she finds out that that was why Lauren slept with her.
* Though we don't see it directly in ''[[Firefly]]'', it is implied that the sexual slave trade is around. When Mal discovers River in Simon's cryo box, the first thing he assumes is that Simon is smuggling her to be sold to a Border-world baron.
 
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* Alisin from ''[[Fans]]'' was [[Rape as Backstory|kept as a sex slave]], which led to her [[Cycle of Revenge|refusing to let Feddyg go after they had sex, which led to him...]] well... [[Complete Monster|doing a lot of things]].
* ''[[Collar 6]]'' has the main character as one of these in a future where BDSM lesbian harems seem to be the norm.
* Implied in ''[[Last Res0rt]]'', or at least [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/11/who-needs-a-shirt-when-you-have-poles/ feared enough by Jigsaw] that she snaps and {{spoiler|kicks her Vampire Sire out a hotel window... thirty stories up}}!
** Since it's explained later on that the Talmi were historically a [[Slave Race]]...
** Mentioned again when Geisha imagines [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2011/08/for-once-i-like-the-way-geisha-thinks/ what could be happening to Jigsaw] {{spoiler|now that she and some of the other players have been captured by Gabriel}}.
* ''[[Teahouse]]'' has a full cast of these ([[Insistent Terminology|insistently called "courtesans"]]) and their clients
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', they think [http://endstone.net/2009/07/15/issue-2-page-4/ they can enslave Kyri because she's a higher animal and one customer doesn't want her slaughtered yet].
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