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Simply put, this is a character who has been [[Made a Slave]] for the sexual desires of others. This happens especially often in [[Dystopia]], [[The Empire]], and the darker versions of [[Fetish Fuel Future]], either to [[Crapsack World|show how much the world sucks]], or, well, [[Romanticized Abuse|just because]]. In the former kind, the [[Sex Slave]] is rarely a protagonist. At best, she's a [[Damsel in Distress]] for the hero to rescue. At worst she only exists as a narrative tool to show the audience that this is indeed a [[No Woman's Land]]. In the [[Romanticized Abuse]] kind, however, she ([[Lady Land|or]] [[Equal Opportunity Evil|he]]) is usually the protagonist. In that case, expect [[Property of Love]] and [[Freedom From Choice]] to come along with [[Happiness in Slavery]].

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.

* Hana Katsuragi from ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]'', though is should be pointed out the one she's a slave to gave her a potential out early, she walked into the deal knowing what would result, and now she couldn't be [[Happiness in Slavery|happier.]] In fact, she even gets to invert the trope and have her own slave in the second season.

* In ''[[Berserk]]'', this happened to both Guts and Casca in their childhoods. Guts was sold by his adoptive father Gambino to the mercenary Donovan for one night for three silver coins, leading to his traumatic rape. Casca was sold by her parents to a noble who wanted a new serving girl, only for it to turn out that this was what he wanted her for. She was saved by Griffith before the bastard could rape her, but Griffith made her [[Accidental Pun|finish him off herself.]] {{spoiler|Unfortunately, the very same Griffith would later rape her himself after getting hooked on [[The Dark Side]].}}

* Askeladd's mother in ''[[Vinland Saga]]''.

* 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.

** 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.

* [[Ax Crazy|Legato]] [[The Dragon|Bluesummers]] from the ''[[Trigun]]'' manga was revealed to have been one in his past... until Knives happened upon the town Legato was in and massacred everyone. Legato managed to use his strings to stop Knives from killing him at the same time, and then said he was going to let him go, so he could kill him if he wanted, but please don't. Knives decided he was interesting, and asked [[The Nameless|his name]], and [[Mad Love|the rest is history]]. This notably explains Legato's insane loyalty in the face of Knives' indifference and cruelty in really depressing terms: Knives isn't ''good'' to him, but he's better than anyone else ever was.

* Underclassmen at Garderobe Academy in ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' are given to the [[Onee-Sama|Onee-samas]] as "room attendants." One student states, when explaining the system, that the kohai ''could'' be made to do [[This and That]] for the [[Onee-Sama]], complete with [[Imagine Spot]].

* ''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]]''.

* ''[[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]].

* In ''[[Legend of the Blue Wolves]]'' Captain Continental has many sex slaves and tries to make Jonathan into one as well. Jonathan refuses so Captain Continental rapes him.

* ''[[Manga/After School Sex Slave Club|After School Sex Slave Club]]''. The girls don't seem to mind.

== Fanfic ==

* A good chunk of the plot to the Care Bears fic All Good Things Start Somewhere.

* Take virtually any pairing where there is [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] and there will be a story about one of the two involved in the relationship making a bet where if the other loses they have to be their slave, often times a sexual slave. This is a quick and easy way of getting rid of the tension and making them an official couple in the story.

* Most ''[[Glee]]'' slash fiction involving Kurt features this theme (with Kurt being the slave in question.)

* In the ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' fan fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5386469/1/Personal_slave Personal Slave]'', [[Complete Monster|Vegeta]] gets in a space ship, goes to Earth, and abducts Gohan for the sole purpose of being his personal sex slave. And he destroys Earth so Gohan will have nowhere to go even if he did escape. The one person that could stop him (Goku) is conveniently dead (died fighting Frieza) and the Dragon Balls no longer exist. And to make sure Gohan can't defend himself against Vegeta's advances, he had his personal scientists make [[Slave Collar|"Ki bonds"]] that control how strong Gohan can become. In the beginning, it's just Gohan being abused and constantly raped by Vegeta, but later, [[Stockholm Syndrome|Gohan begins to ENJOY the treatment he gets from Vegeta]], and actually likes being his slave... even the sex part.

* Several ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fanfics use this trope liberally.

** ''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.

* 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...]]

* 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.

** Averted in the prequel trilogy and [[The Clone Wars]] with Aayla Secura, a female Twi'lek Jedi.

* ''[[The Street Fighter]]'': Because the guy who hired him didn't have enough money to pay him for the job he did for him, Terry sent the guy out the window and then sold the guy's sister into sexual slavery. It's quite the dick move on Terry's part, cementing him as a ''very'' dark antihero, and when the sister gets out of this, she is very much pissed at Terry and goes after him for revenge.

* Some of the replicants in ''[[Blade Runner]]''.

* The "Furniture Girls" in [[Soylent Green]]. The one owned by the murder victim even becomes the love interest of Ty Thorn.

* In ''[[Taken]]'', the [[Papa Wolf]] main character must pretty much race against the clock to make sure his kidnapped daughter won't be sold into sex slavery. {{spoiler|He's too late to save the daughter's best friend, but ''does'' manage to save his child.}}

* Three or four unfortunate young blondes are locked in an attic as forced prostitutes in ''[[The Sinful Dwarf]]''.

* This is the whole premise of the film ''[[Human Trafficking]]'' - the trafficking happens only to get sex slaves.

* The heroines of ''[[Sucker Punch]]'', in two of the film's realities.

* ''[[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.

* 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.

** And in "The People of the Black Citadel" Yasmina is forced to [[Break the Haughty|remember]] past lives of this:

{{quote| ''She reeled naked and bleeding over burning sands, dragged at the slaver's stirrup, and she knew the grip of hot, fierce hands on her writhing flesh, the shame and agony of brutal lust.''}}

* [[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.

* 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.

* In ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', this is the Count's cover story for Haydee's presence. It also helps him to justify why a man of his standing isn't courting women.

* 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.}}

* 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."

* The Red Temple in Fred Saberhagen's ''[[Books of Swords]]'' series is known to use sex slaves among its prostitutes, and the Silver Queen sells her own daughter into slavery to the Red Temple for this purpose. Arian is rescued by Baron Doon and his party before she actually gets to the Red Temple or is raped, [[It Got Worse|but....]]

* The plot of Season 2 of ''[[The Wire]]'' kicks off when a shipping container full of dead Eastern European sex slaves are found on the Baltimore docks.

* Orion slave girls from ''[[Star Trek]]''.

** 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.

* 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.

* 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.

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Fallout 3]]'': Alejandra, one of the Temple Of The Union residents, is a former sex slave Crimson and Clover are current sex slaves (the Lone Wanderer can even buy the latter, but [[Celibate Hero|nothing sexual]] comes out of it), and Red becomes a sex slave if you send her to [[Non-Indicative Name|Paradise Falls]].

* This is the entire point of the ''[[Slave Maker]]'' flash game series.

* {{spoiler|Keristrasza}} becomes Malygos's unwilling consort in ''[[World of Warcraft|Wrath of the Lich King]]'', which is essentially this, but said in a more Safe For Work kind of way.

** Fenris is implied to have been one, as well as a slave [[Super Soldier]]. [[Word of God]] has confirmed this.

* This is what the protagonist of ''[[Virgin Roster]]'' [[Complete Monster|Kengo Inui]] trying to make out of the heroines of the game. [[For the Evulz]].

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[Collar 6]]'' has the main character as one of these in a future where BDSM lesbian harems seem to be the norm.

** 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}}.

* 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].