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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 ''[[Firefly]]'' episode, ''Heart Of Gold'', is about an old colleague of Inara's asking for her help on behalf of her whorehouse (brothel of unregistered hookers) to protect an unborn "whore"'s baby from being kidnapped by its father. Despite the fact that they don't work the street, they are hardened in that they are determined to protect their establishment. {{spoiler|The madam is shot and dies at the end of the episode and the pregnant one kills the father of her son.}}
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* "Tomorrow We'll See" by Sting is based on a documentary on teenage transvestite streetwalkers in Brazil.
* The music video for "''Prayer''" by [[Disturbed]] has one of these that had recently been bought/used. The theme of the song is one of trial and tribulation, so her situation is made decidedly more tragic by images flashing on the screen showing her [[Children Are Innocent|as a little girl]], [[Break the Cutie|before she had to turn to her current life]].
== [[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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