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These are women, usually addicted to some form of illegal drugs, who stand around on street corners in run-down areas. Their [[Hollywood Dress Code]] (usually much nicer than what actual crackwhores wear) includes tiny skirts, six-inch plastic heels, [[Pretty in Mink|rabbit]] /[[Fur and Loathing|fake fur jackets]], a gallon of makeup, and crop tops, even if it's freezing outside.
Among the various forms that prostitution can take, streetwalking is easily among the most
Particularly likely to be the [[Disposable Sex Worker]]. Also very common setups for a [[Dirty Harriet]] scenario.
Contrast [[High
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* Meg from [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] started out as one.
* [[The Kids in The Hall]] features a streetwalker duo and their softhearted pimp as recurring characters.
* Occasionally are featured on ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'', sometimes as a [[Disposable Sex Worker]], sometimes as [[The Informant]].
* Patty The Daytime Hooker on ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''
* Inara Serra, the "Companion" on ''[[Firefly]]'', is pitied and insulted in her personal life despite the fact that Companions in ''Firefly'' seem to be very high-status people and actually bring respectability to the ship.
** The pilot episode lampshades the trope:
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'''Inara''': Just one. I think I'm losing my touch. }}
** One ''[[
* The first season of ''[[CSI]]'' has Nick falling for a hooker, who is indeed killed by her pimp. Her pimp claims she was going back to school to ''recruit'' for the job and leave him. She is, of course, incredibly beautiful and doesn't suffer from abuse or drug addiction, unlike most real-life prostitutes.
** A rather similar thing happens to Warrick in the eighth season.
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* "Slow Down" by Brand Nubian is a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] directed at the speaker's ex-girlfriend, who has been selling her body to pay for her crack habit.
* "Tomorrow We'll See" by Sting is based on a documentary on teenage transvestite streetwalkers in Brazil.
* The music video for "''Prayer''" by [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', NPCs like this (labeled "Harlots") are found in the Hive. The Nameless One cannot purchase their "services", even though [[Non-Human Sidekick]]n Com Morte]] [[Dirty Old Man| will ask him to do so.]]
== [[Web Original]] ==
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