what is it like to visit a high class escort

It's not enough to just look expert. She needs the amuse and talent to back up her beauty.

"Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?" ^notation French: "Would you like to get to bed with me tonight?"

— Lady Marmalade

She'southward expensive; she charges hundreds per hr (or whatever the local equivalent is). She's fashionable; she wears the finest silk stockings and looks keen in a court wig and robes. She'southward cultured; she speaks several languages, knows her claret from her Beaujolais, and can carry on a chat with anyone from the blossom vendor to the Queen.

She's non a barrister or a solicitor (though she could just be putting herself through schoolhouse and might be arguing cases in a few years yet). In simplest terms, she's a prostitute, simply that label fails to accurately capture the full latitude her occupation.

The High-Class Phone call Girl - also known equally an escort or "courtesan" if yous're feeling fancy - occupies the highest tier of her profession, which is usually safer, pays more than, and is seen as more than glamorous than brothel workers or street walkers. On screen, it allows for highly attractive actresses to look convincing as prostitutes and exercise enough of fanservice, while non raising besides many of the more than worrying aspects of prostitution. She moves through elite circles, and her clientele will mostly exist men in the upper echelons of society (expect at least one of them to be a politician, particularly i who is e'er publicly stressing good old fashioned conservative Family Values). Having said that, if these girls are anything similar their historical and real-life counterparts, they cater to a loftier-course clientele considering they themselves are often classy, well-educated, and genuinely smart. The nature of this clientele may also lead to them condign involved in a Hookers and Blow situation.

Due to her background and greater financial independence, she is far likelier than other kinds of prostitutes to be an Ethical Slut, and to appoint in Simple Prostitution. She might not even accuse for sex, instead billing the customer only for her companionship, and whether or not sex happens at all is between them. She's also probable to be a Hooker with a Heart of Gold, or to become a Miss Kitty when she's older.

Compare and contrast Dominatrix and Silk Hiding Steel. Compare Golden Digger. If they limit themselves to one client, they are The Mistress.

See Up Marketing for other examples of selling to the well-to-do.

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    Anime & Manga

• In an episode of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, Itoshki briefly overcomes his pessimism and resolves to become The Hedonist. This includes hiring a high-class prostitute.
• Nokaze in Jin is the nearly famous courtesan in 1860s Edo. The fourth dimension-traveling title character gets the special deluxe treatment from her.
• The Wano arc of One Piece introduces "Komurasaki" (real name Kozuki Hiyori), who is an oiran, the highest rank a courtesan in Wano tin hold, and considered the most beautiful woman in the nation. She also doubles equally a Heroic Seductress past fooling several rich men through fake promises into bankrupting themselves paying for her visitor, while secretly giving the money they pay her back to the poor. She also uses her role to get shut to Shogun Orochi (the man who murdered her parents), who is deeply enamored with her, to gain information to assistance the alliance.
• Yumi Komagata from Rurouni Kenshin was an oiran (a high-form courtesan). Also, despite non being a bad person, she was far more cynical and emotionally broken than the standard thank you to some extreme dick moves on the part of The Government. The prequel Master of Flame is dedicated to Yumi and shows how her pre-Shishio life was, mentions how she became a call girl and shows how she and Shishio met in the luxurious brothel she worked for.
• Great Teacher Onizuka - Principal Daimon financed her revenge scheme by being a hostess in a seedy bar.
• Gender-Inverted Trope: Souma from Sakura Gari volition let anyone slumber with him as long as there is something for him to gain from them in return. Ane of the detectives even remarks on it, saying that even back when they were investigating his pace-mother's suicide, he had the optics of a prostitute.
• Another Gender-Inverted Trope: Sakuya Ookuchi, the male atomic number 82 from Sensual Phrase.
• We encounter 2 in Wicked Metropolis. They're both demon women sent to act as Honey Traps, and ane of them really becomes a major antagonist since she doubles equally a Nighttime Action Daughter.
• What Suzu'south former mistress Riyo used to exist in The Twelve Kingdoms.
• Anita in D.Grayness-Human being, could authorize equally both this and Miss Kitty. She runs the biggest and most fancy brothel in China, so information technology is probably the most expensive that only the upper-classed men could beget. When dressed upwardly and running her brothel, she wears very elegant clothing and a fancy headdress. She seems to get nothing but respect from people and has her own send, with a crew who respects and obeys her every give-and-take; thus, she as well has a cognition of sailing. She meets the Exorcists in People's republic of china just speaks Japanese, which is good since only ane person in the group of 4 speaks Chinese. Her lover, Cross Marian, who has a good share of other lovers himself, says that she was a strong and adept woman, after finding out she's been killed. She also has a big burly female person bodyguard named Mahoja who also works as a bouncer for her brothel, almost likely to make certain the men won't abuse her or any of the other women, as information technology's been said Anita has no tolerance for hateful people. And then, if y'all're going to be with her or anywhere almost her or her brothel, you'd better be well-mannered. She'southward a prostitute, just she has standards and will NOT take patience if yous pause them.
• In the jousei manga Oiran Chirashi, the Naïve Everygirl Haru becomes a Fish out of Temporal Water as she falls into the Yoshiwara of pre-Meiji times. She's taken in by the cynical regent of a high-form brothel and, to survive in such a Crapsaccharine World, she accepts to re-invent herself as Ayame, one of her "girls".
• Yugiri from Zombie Land Saga was a legendary oiran when she was alive during the Meiji Restoration (while in the present day, she's a zombie who'south been revived to be office of an idol group). Episode 2 shows that she's very good at playing the shamisen, which is but one of many skills oiran were expected to learn. In Episode 10, she also reveals that she had preparation as a Geisha.

    Comicbooks

• I volume of The Boys has a superhero party chosen Herogasm, where the majority of the country's heroes get together and have wild sex with each other and the high-grade call girls there. At one indicate, The Homelander attempts to apply one of these girls to distract his uber competent Magnificent Bounder boss from Vought American.
• Katchoo was 1 during her years in LA in the history of Strangers in Paradise. She looks dorsum on this fourth dimension with nostalgic fondness and love, simply also with horror, disgust, and revulsion. It was during this time that she met Emma, the get-go person to really exist nice to her except for Francine, and the woman who took her off the street, gave her a place to live, and whom Katchoo eventually roughshod in love and escaped with, but Emma is also the one who introduced her to the world of prostitution and, more chiefly (And traumatically), Darcy Parker, whose psychotic tendencies and obsessions drove Katchoo to potable, abuse drugs and endure from crippling emotional problems for years.

  Emma: Nervous? Well, don't exist. You'll practice fine. Human activity shy but interested. They honey that. And don't fidget... they detest it if you lot're nervous. Aw, c'monday, love... it'due south not like it'southward gonna kill y'all!"

• Sin City: While it's not outright stated, the girls of Former Boondocks are implied to have a broad range of prices. One story explains that y'all can see limos parked aslope old pickup trucks in Old Boondocks. Gail, the madame, carries herself in such a fashion equally to imply that she is quite pricey. Not to mention nobody ever stiffs them - well, those who try don't alive to regret it.
• Trish from Knights of the Dinner Tabular array might not exist quite as high priced as some of the others on this page, but she is certainly classy, well-educated, and smart.
• A one-shot Punisher story had Frank using 1 of these as an accomplice to become close to some corrupt politicians/corporate goons in order to...well, practise what he does all-time.
• Carmine: Blood-red is descended from a high-class French courtesan that wore a red cape, which marked her equally off-limits for commoners and was reserved only for noblemen.
• Played with in a Cerise Ears comic. A john visits a dignified woman'southward lavish apartment, who is soon revealed to the reader to be a prostitute. Looking effectually the identify while she changes into a nightgown, he realizes that she's very cultured, intelligent, and rich. She but chose to be a hooker considering she likes information technology.

    Film

• The various picture show versions of La dame aux camélias/Camille all feature this trope in the tragic courtesan heroine Marguerite, most famously portrayed by Greta Garbo in Camille (1936).
• Sophia Loren, beingness every bit arrestingly sexy as she was, got cast in this part more than than once. In Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, she is an expensive phone call girl who is and then hot that the divinity student adjacent door decides to leave the priesthood to pursue her. In Marriage Italian Way, she'due south an expensive call daughter who eventually grows sad and disappointed that her wealthy long-time lover won't ally her and take her out of the life.
• Ginger in Casino is this before she gets married to Ace.
• In Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts' character substantially goes from street-corner hooker to this in i fell swoop.
• Satine from Moulin Rouge! is a courtesan in the high nightclub of Paris. Her whole storyline is clearly influenced by Camille.
• Gloria from Butterfield viii.
• Flowers Of Shanghai is nigh the life of loftier-form courtesans in 19th-century China.
• The eye segment of Three Times depicts the human relationship between a high-class Chinese courtesan and her favorite patron.
• Al Pacino'south character from Any Given Sunday gets approached by ane of these ladies 1 night in a bar afterward his squad suffered a bad loss, and he is besides drunk and depressed to have her up on her offer.
• Lynn Bracken from L.A. Confidential is part of a stable of high-class call girls who are fabricated to look like movie stars.
• Take hold of Me If You lot Tin. Frank meets one in a hotel, enjoys a night of sex, so non simply gives her a simulated check but scams her into giving him $400 change for the fake check. He recognizes her as a model, so it's not quite articulate if she'due south a full-time prostitute or if she was simply tempted by his rich guy persona.
• Bree Daniels in Klute.
• Severine in Belle de Jour.
• Chelsea in The Girlfriend Feel. Offers low v figures for the titular experience, and finds her clients are starting to get wary given the economical crisis. Bonus points for existence played by a pornstar.
• American Psycho Several times, forth with numerous Streetwalkers he kills, in many different means.
• Liz Blake in Dressed to Impale, who's on the phone with her broker between johns.
• Memoirs of a Geisha is ready in Japan near a girl named Chiyo, who trains to become the esteemed Geisha Sayuri. She is primarily an creative person but is required to sell her virginity to become official. Geisha are in fact distinct from prostitutes, as Chiyo's sister is sold to a brothel.
• Sylvia, the Italian courtesan, in Brotherhood of the Wolf.
• Rosie in Payback.
• Dangerous Beauty is a bio-moving picture of Veronica Franco, who was a Real Life Venetian courtesan, or high-class prostitute. At i point in the movie, she — [ahem] — "persuades" the king of French republic to lend Venice the warships needed for state of war with the Turks. In Real Life, she did have a liaison with King Henri Iii, just information technology probably wasn't of quite that much diplomatic importance.
• Miss Trixie from Newspaper Moon, though she doesn't have the refinement or discretion typical of the trope.
• "Shanghai Lily" in Shanghai Express (Marlene Dietrich) is a hooker and apparently a very expensive one, traveling in the outset-class auto of the train, and wearing a serial of very ornate dresses. She has a travelling companion Hui Fei, who similarly appears to be expensive; a scene shows them playing records in their motel, which by the standards of the Keen Low was to show them every bit extravagant (most people couldn't afford recorded music).
• In Diary of a Lost Girl, Thymian is pretty lost past the time she escapes from a women'southward reformatory and winds up as a high-class call daughter in a fancy brothel where champagne is quaffed and the customers wear tuxedos.
• In The Life of Oharu, Oharu does this, working in a high-class brothel for a while. But it's only ane step in her slide that started with a noblewoman and goes on to Streetwalker earlier catastrophe with the homeless wandering ragamuffin.
• Boxing of the Bulge: Full general Kohler sends a ridiculously attractive "courtesan first class" to Col. Hessler's room. Hessler, existence a no-nonsense hardass, sends the telephone call girl on her way. In point of fact, the indicate when he sends her packing is the moment she mentions his married woman confirming his suspicion she knew total well that he was married and is implying that he has a reputation for adulterous on his wife, which he very much doesn't and won't do.
• Gigi: The title character's Aunt Alicia is an aged and successful cocotte with an expansive prepare of jewels, a butler, and her own private residence. She trains Gigi to follow in her steps, just this is of course in vain.
• Three Seasons: Lan, the Vietnamese prostitute who primarily caters to wealthy foreigners. She opens her purse and information technology'due south full of crisp American $50 bills, she dresses in classy (yet flashy) western styles, and is invited to spend the night in luxurious air-conditioned hotel rooms.
• Although it is never explicitly stated, this is Jenny Wren'southward occupation in The Phantom of Crestwood. She plans to blackmail her clients for enough coin to retire to Europe.
• Hush-hush Heat. Muddied Harriet law officeholder Cindy Hannen (Athena Massey) goes undercover in a high-class whorehouse to grab a murderer. She discovers the fake clients prepare for her cannot exist relied upon and when faced with real tricks decides to stitch her "Wild oats" and enjoy a sexual adventure as a real prostitute, transforming from tomboy into Fair Cop via a Girliness Upgrade, essentially Becoming the Mask. Also played with when she does a roleplay every bit a Dominatrix cop for 1 of her unwitting clients and indulges in A Three Some Is Hot with an attractive married couple.
• In The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Colina, Kissey Hill, the daughter of a notorious madam in 19th Century London, follows in her late female parent'due south footsteps with prostitution in catering to dignity and royalty.
• A Score to Settle: Afterward getting out of prison house, Frankie gets involved with Simone; a high-class call daughter who charges $chiliad an hour.
• In The Loft, Anne Morris is a very expensive prostitute who unremarkably serves a paid consort to a urban center councilman.
• Belle Starr from Zachariah is non just expensive simply likewise picky and hands bored, and only accepts the most interesting, accomplished men.
• Spears has the pocket-size character Ashaki, who's implied to be expensive - given that Jeff knows her, and he'southward not the type to pick up a Street Walker. She'south hired to aid them catch an enemy by seducing him in a nightclub.
• The World of Suzie Wong downplays it, since Suzie does have to choice clients up at a bar, but considers herself higher class than street walkers. She likewise makes plenty to briefly support Robert financially. She also has an Unlimited Wardrobe of fancy cheongsams. The book clarifies that she did used to be higher class, working at a dance hall and having rich businessmen as clients. She merely had to stop working there when one of them got her pregnant and decided not to marry her.

    Literature

• The nearly famous high-class courtesan in all of literature is probably Marguerite Gautier, the tragic heroine of La dame aux camélias (improve known in English-speaking countries as Camille), past Alexandre Dumas fils. She was inspired by the famed Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis, with whom Dumas fils had a brief love affair (and whose other lovers included Franz Liszt) before she died at age 23.
• Francesca in The Heirs of Alexandria. Goes on to become an imperial advisor and The Mistress.
• The James Patterson novel Sail.
• In Robert B. Parker's Spenser series, recurring character Patricia Utley runs a whole enterprise of this sort. She takes very, very expert intendance of her girls.
• In the Kushiel's Legacy serial, prostitution is a sacred calling. The protagonist, Phedre no Delaunay, is an extremely high priced prostitute, who, as well her innate craving for pain, is a trained spy, speaks thirteen languages, and is quite mostly regarded equally the all-time in the business concern by human and woman alike. She also becomes active in court politics equally a confidante of the Queen and earns a noble championship, making her loftier-class in every respect.
• Haruki Murakami wrote Trip the light fantastic Dance Trip the light fantastic toe which had a network of these.
  • Kafka on the Shore describes one, a philosophy major, on the job.
• The story "The Whore of Mensa" in Woody Allen'southward book Without Feathers features a call-girl agency where the girls discuss high literature with the customers (and do nothing else).
• Madame Ahnzhelyk Phonda runs this sort of institution in the Safehold series, catering to the needs of the various priests and bishops of the Decadent Church. She uses this part to act as a spy.
• In Colette'south Chéri and La Fin de Cheri novellas, Lea de Lonval is a retired kept woman.
• Servilia in the Emperor books ensures that her brothels are staffed entirely by girls like this. She herself also qualifies and is and then successful that she tin influence the senate.
• Thaïs of Athens stars the (in)famous Greek hetaera of the championship as the protagonist. There is besides her best friend Aegesichore.
• Discussed in The Wise Man's Fear: Denna rescues a runaway girl forced to play prostitute to make ends encounter from a violent customer, then has a long talk with her virtually how if she doesn't desire to render home she can at least make herself 1 of these. The glamor only goes and then far, though: Denna compares a High-Form Telephone call Girl to a normal prostitute by comparing a lord's well-kept horse to a shabby, run-down steed - including the office where at the finish of the twenty-four hours they both go ridden.
• Mona Sofia from Federico Andajhazi'southward The Anatomist is the most beautiful, cynical, and expensive prostitute in the whole Venetian Democracy. A whole affiliate of the book is dedicated to the extremely squicky (and not exactly believable) circumstances backside her success. She meets an anvilicious and tragically ironic end, due to contracting syphilis.
  • Likewise Ines de Torquemada, later on being emotionally broken. She doesn't terminate upward much ameliorate.
• The In Death series: Charles Monroe is definitely a Loftier-Grade Call Boy. Eve is friends with him, even though his profession bothers her. There is this one High-Class Phone call Girl who ends upwards murdered in Indulgence in Decease.
• La Señora from Eva Luna has several of these girls working for her in her brothel. They're described rather sympathetically: they're pretty, and rather kind girls who dote on teen!Eva and just happen to be atop of the local sex industry.
  • Also, Tránsito Soto from The House of the Spirits. She doesn't actually start as such, though: past the time she's in her 30s/40s, however, she has become this thanks to difficult piece of work, growing into her looks and showing off lots of smarts and charisma.
• Prostitution is considered a sacred profession by the Summer Islanders of A Song of Water ice and Fire, being adept fifty-fifty by the dignity. Chataya, a Summer Islander, runs a high-class brothel in King's Landing that caters to nobles and wealthy clients.
  • Some other example is provided past the courtesans of Braavos, who are famed throughout Essos and Westeros and who enjoy a practically revered status. Whilst all of them bask high status, each owning their own river barge and servants to crew information technology, one of them, the Nightingale, is so revered that the bravos that wander the street, looking to duel and evidence off their swordsmanship, will challenge anyone who does not concord that she is the most beautiful woman in the world.
• Fortunato in Wild Cards runs an agency of these, and makes information technology very clear that the actress air of form means that they are non whores. He prefers to telephone call them "geishas" in deference to his Japanese mother (which is a little iffy, historically speaking, but whatever).
• In the James Bond novel Dr. No, Love Ryder says she plans to become one of these with the money she's going to get by collecting rare seashells.
• The Reynard Bike: Defender of the Crown features Precieuse, who is a temple prostitute and companion to the King. Even his mother approves.
• The temple prostitute Shamhat from The Epic of Gilgamesh. Temple prostitution was office of the duties of some priests and priestesses of that time and place, and thus it was seen as a sacred and respectable human activity.
• Chandramukhi from Devdas was this and in fact the richest and most popular of all the prostitutes, at least until she gave upwardly her "profession" to marry the eponymous Devdas, who is always indomitable past his feelings for his babyhood friend Paro (who has been married off to someone else).
• Luphera from The Iron Teeth web serial. Blacknail wanders into her room, while she happens to be naked. She'southward an incredibly beautiful and sensual woman. Her room is also luxurious, tasteful, and filled with a flowery aphrodisiac scent.
• Kestel Falke in The Dominant Kingdoms Saga has a backstory as a highly sought-afterward courtesan in the royal court of Donderath. This was really a cover for her real task every bit a hired spy and assassin; she ends up in the Penal Colony of Velant after being caught at the latter.
• Lightly implied to be Lady Meserole'south former (?) profession in the Discworld novel Nighttime Watch: she asks if Vimes thinks she's an "old seamstress" ("seamstress" being an Unusual Euphemism for "prostitute") and he says, "Actually I was thinking bespoke tailoring." She also goes by "Madam" and there'due south some uncertainty nearly whether information technology's a job title or more than of an honorific.
• The Danielle Steel novel The Duchess has the championship character, the heroine, actually running a brothel full of these.
• Anyone trained by the Bene Gesserit in Dune, every bit they learn certain, ah, marital arts alongside many other things. Case in point, Lady Jessica, a concubine for a powerful and influential Knuckles who helps out a lot in managing his household. The whole functioning is a cover for the BG's secret breeding plan.
• The Web Serial Novel The Comfortable Courtesan centres effectually Clorinda Cathcart, a high-class courtesan in Regency England. Partway through the story, she enters a Spousal relationship of Convenience with a gay and dying aristocrat and is able to retire, although she notwithstanding discreetly sleeps around a lot for fun.

    Live-Activity TV

• Buffyverse: Darla was unsaid to have been one when live, as she was "a whore" (in her words) simply too "a adult female of some property" according to the Master, and had some servants whom she dismissed from her deathbed when the Chief showed up.
• Joanie Stubbs in Deadwood. At the beginning of the series she has graduated from High-Class Call Girl to Lesser Girl and manages the other whores. She goes on to open her ain brothel staffed exclusively by High-Class Call Girls. It doesn't piece of work out.
• Game of Thrones: Ros is the go-to prostitute for blue-blooded men in Winterfell and later works her fashion up to the Red Keep.
• Belle de Jour from Secret Diary of a Phone call Girl. Based on a True Story.
• Sam's not-girlfriend, Laurie, from the first season of The West Wing (yes, the one played by Lisa Edelstein) is probably the highest class of high-course call girls, being that she provides her service for some of THE most powerful men in the state. She'due south actually codified almost perfectly, as she's actually a concluding year police force student (later graduate) from Georgetown University paying her way through college.
• Leanne Battersby briefly works as a phone call girl in Coronation Street.
• Torchwood: Phenomenon Day has a daughter like this, who was hired past Jilly upon Oswald Danes' request. However, when she arrives, he actually asks her to make it sort of a engagement, to what she replies that she's gotten her hands dirty for politicians, famous stars, and the similar, merely he shouldn't forget what he is (a child rapist, that is).
• Multiple murder victims on CSI are those.
  • As is recurring character Lady Heather, though she doesn't run a brothel, merely an S&1000 social club.
• A professional person hitwoman becomes one of these in an episode of Life in order to get close to her victim.
• In an episode of White Collar, Diana poses as one to get to the guy the FBI is investigating, who's in the business of prostitution, and Neal pretends to be a "costumer". Their interactions are more than amusing.
• Brenda's friend Melissa in season ii of Six Feet Under.
• Companions in Firefly. They are seen equally loftier-class citizens, and Inara gets bizarre looks when she steps outside the send on backwater planets. Contrast that to the unlicensed brothel in the episode "Center of Gold"; the workers there are seen equally trash.
  • When the crew gets interned by an Brotherhood Cruiser, the officer interrogating them is rather surprised to find a preacher and a Companion on board, implying that Companions have at least equal social standing to that of the clergy. At one betoken, Inara uses her status as a Companion to browbeat a state sheriff into letting Mal and Zoe out of jail. Information technology's likewise mentioned or unsaid several times that Mal originally allowed Inara to rent one of his shuttles because she would requite his "enterprise" an air of class and sophistication and that her presence would ensure that his transport could land fifty-fifty in "respectable" ports.
• In the Australian direct-to-cablevision Idiot box series Satisfaction, one of the primary protagonists is an independent call-girl of this nature who gets work through the brothel the serial focuses on.
• The women (and men) of Dollhouse are this, and much, much more. Since they're actually "bare slate" bodies with personalities downloaded into them meeting the clients' verbal requirements, the Dollhouse caters exclusively to the super-rich. Prostitution is pretty mutual, but inappreciably the limit of what they're capable of being. In the airplane pilot, Echo is sent out to deed the part of a hostage negotiator.
• The episode "Pleasance is My Business" of Criminal Minds had a high-priced call girl who moonlighted as a Serial Killer.
• Blair's new friend Brandice turns out to exist this on Gossip Girl.
• Ted believed that the appointment Barney got him for an award ceremony was one in How I Met Your Female parent. The series of Accidental Innuendos didn't help. She really was a paralegal.
• In Community episode The Politics Of Human Sexuality Pierce's girlfriend Doreen is an escort. Curiously (because this is Pierce we're discussing), he doesn't have to pay for a date with her. At least initially.
• Rachel from Houseof Cards U.s. is a prostitute for congressmen, politicians, and the similar… until she gets caught in the center of the Underwood's schemes, that is, by existence with congressman Peter Russo the night he's arrested. Everything goes downhill for her from at that place onwards.
• Reed from Homeland, who is office of sheik'due south harem. One grapheme calls her a hooker, another a paid girlfriend.
• In flavor iii of Boardwalk Empire Gillian Darmody opens a high-course brothel but she fails to concenter the right clientele and information technology struggles financially. Past the end of the season, it is taken over as headquarters for Rosetti'southward mobsters and it quickly devolves into a depression-course institution that the mobsters are more familiar with. Gillian was not a prostitute herself before this, merely in flavour iv she becomes a low-course one in guild to support her heroin habit.
• The Contessa ran an entire house of these in Copper.
• Guilt: Roz and Amber (forth with Molly when alive) work every bit these in an sectional lodge patronized by the rich and powerful, including Prince Theo. It turns out that Grace signed up too, simply backed out.
• Mitt of God: Tessie, who is a very sophisticated and educated adult female with high-cease clientèle, such as Pernell.
• Motive: A high-class call girl was the last person to see the Victim of the Week alive in "A Bullet for Joey"; conducting 'business' with him in his office. Initially a suspect, Angie and Oscar dismiss her from their inquiries once her excuse checks out.
• Law & Social club: Criminal Intent: The Victim of the Week in "Rispetto" is a young call girl who poses equally a higher student and advertises on a website headed 'Generous Gentlemen Simply'. The detectives find $5000 in cash and a rack of high-stop designer dresses in her flat.
• Meg Yen Women: Shin regularly visits an escort who works in a brothel where rooms are nice and take their own bathtubs. In addition one of his mysterious housemates runs an escort agency in which the just shown escort is a young, famous popular star.
• Sisters. Reed, the daughter of oldest sis Alexandra, runs an escort service full of these, leading to her ain mother being Mistaken for Prostitute when they're seen hanging out.
• In Death in Paradise, Carlton Paris is a male version who caters to the wealthy and powerful women of the island: his domicile is filled with expensive wearing apparel and artwork, and he extensively researches his clients' interests so he tin can hold up his terminate of a conversation. Existence a noted Pretty Boy doesn't hurt either.
• Endeavour: In "Muse", Morse has to locate, and protect, a loftier-class call girl (and artist'south model) named Eve Thorne who seems to exist the only connexion in a serial of murders. When Morse says she is nothing more than a common prostitute, Eve retorts that there is nil common about her.
• Betty: Indigo decides to become 1 after learning she tin make a lot of coin that way, going on "dates" with rich men.
• The Professionals
  • In "The Female person Gene", the Victim of the Calendar week is a high-class prostitute who 'commits suicide' after trying to contact Ray Doyle (whom she knew when he was in the Drug Squad) later finding her long-lost daughter is existence used for a badger game.
  • In "The Untouchables", CI5 are looking to fix an Arab diplomat with a liking for leggy blondes, so hire an escort who's and so high class, she turns out to exist the daughter of a Whitehall standard mandarin friend of Cowley'southward!

    Music

• Killer Queen past Queen pretty much defines this trope. ^note She's also Silk Hiding Steel.
• The album embrace for Shiina Ringo's Gyakuyunyū: Kōwankyoku has the singer herself dressed as an oiran.
• The Jad Wio anthology Sex Magik - Histoire de Lilith Von Sirius, specially the song "Das ist", is most Diana Orlow aka Lilith Von Sirius, a Real Life writer, poetess, dancer, costume designer, esotericist, and 'courtisane de luxe' (luxury courtesan) who died of uterine cancer at age 25.

    Tabletop Games

• The Vodacce courtesans in 7th Sea.

    Theatre

• Violetta in La Traviata, based on La dame aux camélias/Camille. The heroine's name is inverse from the original Marguerite, but her scandalous profession stays the same.
• Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann is another operatic courtesan, much less noble and tragic than Violetta.
• The Spanish courtesan Clementina in The Desert Song.
• Madame Leonora Armfeldt, of A Little Nighttime Music, is a prime example. She spent her days as a courtesan in the palaces of Europe, romancing princes, dukes, barons, and a few kings. After making several fortunes, she retired to her manor in Sweden, where she raises her granddaughter and laments most how "mod" women lack the skill, discretion, and passion for sex that her generation displayed. Madame Armfeldt even has an entire song, appropriately titled "Liaisons," in which she lists off her conquests.

    Video Games

• Planescape: Torment has two unlike classes of prostitutes who tin be solicited, the other group beingness very destitute.
• In Princess Maker 2, if the Daughter gets loftier Charisma/Glamour and Refinement and also has high Sin/Karma, she may be recruited by a handsome pimp who will put her in the path to condign one of these. In the catastrophe film, she's seen completely naked on a bed and giving a mischievous flash.
• Mass Issue: While Sha'ira the Consort and her Acolytes are technically more than prostitutes (one of the Acolytes' specialties is speech), the Consort's Chambers are located on the Presidium and opposite the Citadel Embassies.
• Invoked in Octopath Traveler. Primrose is sadly not the trope, but she enjoys the glamour and confidence of its image as much every bit anybody. One of the few happy moments in her story's get-go chapter is when she takes the opportunity to dazzle a young girl with her beauty.

    Webcomics

• Getter Must from Rasputin Barxotka and Rasputin Catamite officially works as a secretary, but really services high-end clients and strange dignitaries.
• Nyarai and the Whirlwind Crushers from Furry Fight Chronicles work every bit hostesses in Social club Nighthawk when not fighting every bit Combagals. As seen in Chapter half-dozen, it is a very bad idea to attempt anything on them as they are strong enough that they don't demand bodyguards.
• Debacle in the Insecticomics is a well-respected histrion and cultural icon, mainly due to her Debbie Does Daebola series. No one seems to have a problem with this, besides the local network executive (whose problem is mostly because she has no idea what the porn is about even after seeing it).
• Bridget O'Brian in Tales Of Gnosis College is a beautiful and talented college student who agrees to spend time in a sultan's harem — even going through a mock slave-auction to get there — partly in render for a hefty fee paid to her for her services, although she also claims to exist doing it every bit a mode of sociological research.

    Web Video

• Marion Lavorre, Jester's female parent from Critical Role, is a famous courtesan called the Ruby of the Sea. She resides in a high-class hotel, is known for her enchanting singing performances, and is paid large sums of money to provide escort services to wealthy and influential clientele.

    Real Life

• Mixing Web Original and Real Life, the Freakonomics blog features interviews with a real-life High-Form Call Girl using the pseudonym Allie. She was likewise interviewed for the Freakonomics books. Her discussions were informed by Allie's own rather thorough knowledge of economics as well as the insights from Stephen Levitt, a University of Chicago economist, and Stephen Dubner, his collaborator. In curt, Allie earned a high six-figure income from her work and suffered very few adverse events, including no significant run-ins with the police force. She also had to be extremely well-educated, refined, and careful about her piece of work. Her work called for the sacrifice of her personal life.

  Q. Do you feel that the inelasticity of demand for your services was because a higher price signaled a higher quality to the client or was information technology the case that your prior experience in your profession justified the raise or is there another explanation? Related to this, do you lot feel that a new escort could enter the market and charge the higher rates that you arrived at over many years? – Sam R
  A. I believe that a higher price does indicate a higher quality to clients, but many clients are well informed and decide on who they are going to see based on photographs and reviews. Many of these clients are not price-sensitive, and in those cases, I don't think a few hundred dollars would make a difference if they establish someone they wanted to encounter. I think in my case I was able to raise my prices because I was well-reviewed, and had clients already in my book that I had established a relationship with. I have no doubt that if a new escort marketed herself well, and treated her clients well, she could achieve and maintain a reasonable business organisation with these higher rates.

  • And so viciously inverted when the same book analyzed the adverse events, risks, and living conditions of low-course prostitutes in Chicago. Fifty-fifty when presented through the fairly sterile lens of an economist, it'south a bit of a painful read.
• The Butterfly Girls of early 20th century Chicago were beautiful, bright, and earned the modernistic equivalent of over $400,000 per yr.
• Ashley Dupre, the telephone call daughter who brought down former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, is at present an advice columnist for the New York Post.
• Sydney Biddle Barrows, "The Mayflower Madam", and her employees.
• Courtesans the world over, including regional variations like oiran in Japan and hetaera in aboriginal Greece.
• The oiran of Japan were the High-Class Call Girls of their time and culture. The most beautiful, near high-ranked oiran were of high demand and charged accordingly, and their job, along with the laying downwardly role, consisted of partying with their clients. Geisha, high-class entertainers sometimes mistaken every bit prostitutes, were oft chosen to entertain both the oiran and her customers.
• Empress Theodora of the Eastern Roman Empire was non an example of this. She was an actress and borderline prostitute who worked her manner up to a higher course of clients, including somewhen becoming the mistress of the future Emperor Justinian and having him overturn many laws on Marriage for prostitutes to higher form Romans. Belisarius, the top General of the Emperor, however, was and so free to marry his own high-class prostitute mistress.
  • Theodora'south sister, Comito, was, even so, one of the leading courtesans of the menstruation.
• Heidi Fleiss, the "Hollywood Madam".
• Phryne, a hetaera from aboriginal Hellenic republic, was so beautiful that she may have been the model for multiple statues of Aphrodite and eventually grew so rich that she offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes so long every bit the words destroyed past Alexander, restored by Phryne the courtesan were inscribed on them. Coincidentally, she was a native of Thespiae, where Eros, the god of love/sexual desire, was the near worshipped deity.
  • She is also famous for being acquitted afterwards taking off her apparel before the jury. It Makes Sense in Context: in Ancient Greece, Beauty Equals Goodness because information technology was a sign of beingness blessed by the gods, and Phryne's alleged crime was blasphemy.
• Aspasia, who is believed to take had a major influence on Pericles'due south opinions and oratory. Yet, historians now disagree as to whether she really was a courtesan; on one hand, it's recorded in several sources, but on the other hand, several of these were basically Aboriginal Athens' equivalent of stand up-upward comics making jokes about her lover Pericles, and so it might simply have been Memetic Mutation. She may well have been a madam: as a metic—that is, a free Greek resident alien in Athens (she was specifically from Miletos)—she was expected to have some kind of trade. Equally an unmarried just wealthy woman, running a firm hiring out hetaerae would have been a likely—although inappreciably certain—business (prostitution was ane of the few areas of work open to free, unmarried, foreign women, and she didn't become Pericles' So correct when she arrived in Athens).
• The originally anonymous author of Belle de Jour wrote a memoir about her experiences as a telephone call girl, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl. In a story that made newspapers, the mystery surrounding her true identity eventually led Dr. Brooke Magnati to reveal herself to the public.
• It'due south adequately mutual for famous porn stars to also work as escorts, charging a lot of money for a date and being very conscientious in their selection of clients.
• An commodity in the Hollywood Reporter states that these are common forth the French Riviera during events like the Cannes Picture Festival and the Monaco M Prix, which are among the biggest paydays of the year for European prostitutes. Many models, and even actresses in career downturns, as well flock to the region to work as "yacht girls", existence paid thousands of dollars to hang out on the yachts of wealthy clients in arrangements that, while they don't explicitly mention sex, are more often than not understood to include it. Roger Ebert noted it on a trip to Cannes in 2010, tweeting that the prostitutes were "the ones who are well-dressed and not smoking." Unsurprisingly, the region is also a hub of man trafficking, the subject of the article being a Lebanese businessman and acquaintance of Muammar Gaddafi who ran a "modeling agency" before he was busted in 2007.
• In The Roaring '20s, María Calvo Nodarse, better known every bit "La Macorina", chose her clients among the most select circles of Cuban guild, befriending ex-president José Miguel Gómez. She got enough coin that, by her retirement in 1934, she endemic several cars, houses, racehorses, furs, and jewelry. Her beauty was the discipline of the verse form "Macorina", after turned into a vocal past Chavela Vargas.

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