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Mistaken for Prostitute

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Mistaken for Prostitute	comment	Sometimes, a good-looking person (most often a woman) in the "wrong" part of town will be accosted by someone who's looking for a prostitute and thinks he's found one. This is often Played for Laughs in fiction, but can be a real danger in Real Life. Police departments that are cracking down on the sex trade have been known to arrest women based on appearance profiling. When treated as comedy, whether the mistaken-for person decks the accoster or flees there will always be a followup scene where that person asks if she really dresses like a sex worker. The answer is always Yes. Don't be surprised to find some Values Dissonance or Unfortunate Implications here, in the form of "nice girls don't wear _____". It doesn't necessarily have to be clothing items either; this is one area where Makeup Is Evil isn't a Forgotten Trope. A variation is when a woman is nice to a nerdy male who assumes she must be a prostitute looking for work because why else would any woman be nice to a nerdy male? Compare Mistaken for Gay, Mistaken for Pregnant and pretty much every other trope in the Mistaken for Index. A female subject is often wearing Stripperiffic fashions, males have some more flexibility on the trope dress code. Compare Need a Hand, or a Handjob? where an actual solicitation is mistaken for something non-sexual.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_10bc0a19	comment	"Seamstress" is the accepted euphemism in Ankh-Morpork. In Night Watch Discworld, Dr Lawn explains there was a certain amount of confusion when Sandra Battye arrived in the city hoping to work as an actual seamstress. Inverted when Vimes questions why she's still hanging out with the "seamstresses", and Lawn points out there are plenty of men who make the opposite mistake, and are genuinely looking for someone to darn their socks.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_13605458	comment	In Gate, some men think Yao Haa Dushi is a prostitute because of her good looks and Stripperific outfit and try to proposition her (2 men in the manga, several in the anime). She kicks the first few guys' asses and then makes the last one run away crying by claiming he has a Teeny Weenie.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The cops assume this about their Victim of the Week, given how she's dressed and the part of town she's in. They're confused when her autopsy shows her to be in perfect health and with good hygiene, something highly unlikely for a working girl and soon realize that she was just a typical college girl out for a night of partying. And her killer didn't mistake her for a hooker either—it was her boyfriend whose sex games got too rough. Happens again in another episode with another girl who is assumed to be a hooker—but who is actually a Teen Genius whose killer is a jealous classmate.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_16b97fcd	comment	Inversion on The Bob Newhart Show: Bob is outside a Bulls game trying to sell an extra ticket and gets mistaken for a john by an undercover lady cop.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_1abd98ae	comment	Done subtly in Endless Frontier, when Haken introduces Kaguya to his father, John Moses:
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_1b2ba8c6	comment	Male variation in Hivefled; trolls don't make a gender distinction in the promiscuity stigma. Eridan, when he joined the fleet, slept with anyone who looked at him in a desperate attempt to fit in, and rumours of him committing theft got mixed up with stories of him fucking everyone and got him arrested for illegal prostitution.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_1b386512	comment	In the Ranma ½ fanfic "Sauce", this happens to Shampoo, who is for plot-related reasons on a "date" with an ugly nerd, a passerby offers her "double" to go with him instead.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_1b7190c7	comment	Jack Reacher: Jack meets a woman named Sandy at a bar, but doesn't tell her his name to remain undercover. When she invites him to drive with her, he tells her "I'm sorry I can't afford you." She gets offended and defends herself by saying that she isn't a hooker and that she works at the Auto Parts Store. When Jack says that that means he really can't afford her she gets even more offended, and Jack laments that an actual hooker would have gotten the joke.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_1fa37285	comment	In Stand on Zanzibar, Bronwen is almost denied entry to Yatakang because of her microsari and the fact that her passport says she's a widow. In Yatakangi, the word "widow" is a common euphemism for "prostitute".
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_2212773a	comment	In Angel, Cordelia is handing out business cards for their business with the ambiguous slogan "We help the helpless". One of the guys she hands them to assumes she is a hooker and Doyle is her pimp.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: The team assumed a victim was a prostitute due to the combination of what she was wearing, the fact that she could unhinge her jaw, and having been killed in an apartment she kept separate from her husband for "work purposes." It didn't help that her husband mentioned watching her "make a footlong disappear" during the interview. When Sweets outright calls her a prostitute, the husband takes offense and corrects them. She competed in eating contests, and she kept a private apartment for training because she needed complete concentration and her husband found it gross watching her practice scarfing down food so quickly.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_230ec9cf	comment	In Skins, Alex gets mistaken for a prostitute.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_2342a881	comment	Mission Hill: In "Kevin vs. The SAT", Posey starts a massage therapy business, but a misprint in her print ad promised customers "healing release" instead of "healing relief", so everyone that arrives expects to be having sex with her. Not helping is that if you check the other ads around hers, they're all for sex hotlines and other equally naughty things. Eventually this ends up getting her and Andy into trouble with a pimp who thinks she's cutting in on his territory.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_24ffd341	comment	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Dee is mistaken for a prostitute in the "Mac Is A Serial Killer" episode. The writers may have been trying to go farther than the more common version of the trope, since the man who talks to her is a caricatured pimp rather than a mere would-be client. In another episode, Dennis is mistaken for a gigolo while lounging around a country club. Subverted since his father Frank had set it all up.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "Mobile Homer", a Turkish sea captain said Marge "dressed like a Lebanese Prostitute".
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_2a4c791e	comment	Ah! My Goddess - Tabula Rasa. In this reboot Keichi assumes the exotically dressed woman offering him any wish he desires must be an escort.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_2c15b0d3	comment	Batgirl (2000): A supporting character sees Cassandra Cain meeting with Alfred, and interprets it the wrong way, despite Cass's attempts to correct her.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_2c9a932f	comment	The first issue of Vampirella Lives combines this trope with Mugging the Monster. The eponymous character and her guide are accosted by a group of ravenous vampires who assume she is a prostitute because of her attire. She proceeds to slaughter them all with the help of her ally.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_2f3162e4	comment	Sex and the City: Carrie is at a cheap motel, waiting for her married lover to secure a room for their liaison. Another man talks to her, mentioning that he's seen her at the motel before, and asks her "How much?", having assumed she's an escort.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V has Tonya (an actual prostitute) believing that her childhood friend Franklin has become a rentboy due to vaguely sourced gossip. It's true in that Franklin has been hanging out with a rich white guy, but only as his protégé as a professional criminal, nothing more.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_3667c500	comment	Happens to Princess Solange in Code of Princess because of her Stripperific outfit. An enemy soldier thinks she looks familiar, like "that girl on the street corner," Jade or Jasmine or whatever. His comrade eventually points out that she's the princess they're after and had encountered earlier.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_379c9a85	comment	Taken to horrific levels in All My Children. After being scarred in an accident, Julia Santos runs away from home and takes refuge in a seedy part of town with a local hoodlum. In a cruel irony, he treats her perfectly decently, but one of his associates assumes that she's a hooker and shows up at the apartment one night looking to make use of her supposed services. Despite her repeatedly telling him "no" and that she's not a prostitute, he ignores her protests and rapes her.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_3cd90f30	comment	Inverted in Arrested Development: Michael finds a woman named Nellie, who he assumes is his sister, when she is actually a prostitute that George Sr. uses every once in a while.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_3eacc2fd	comment	Inverted in Corner Gas, Davis mistakes a policewoman undercover as a prostitute for a ticket scalper. His ambiguous wording when trying to buy "merchandise" causes her to arrest him for soliciting.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_3f0ccb87	comment	At the end of 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns, Holmes is settling into Amy's house and proceeds to describe the young woman waiting across the street whom he is certain is his next client. He deduces that she is a prostitute because no decent young woman would be wearing such a revealing outfit which he then describes. Amy gently corrects him, telling him that what he just described is the uniform of a 49ers cheerleader.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_43394c76	comment	Played with in Love and Rockets. This trope happens to Maggie three times as she wanders alone through Texas. The first time, just after her breakup with Hopey (Maggie still clad in the slinky party dress she was wearing at the time), a man propositions her at a bus station. Penniless and wanting to make her way home, she accepts, for three hundred dollars. The second time, in another town, everyone at the local motel assumes this about her, including an actual prostitute who assaults her for invading her turf. The thoroughly demoralized Maggie, noticing a security guard eyeing her, invites him to her room for sex. When she awakens, she finds he's left her money; she doesn't return it. Played straight the third time as, having returned to the town, patched things up with the prostitute and just about to be reunited with Hopey, one of the motel owners slaps her in the face after a regular blames her for breaking up his marriage,note even though it was entirely his idea to leave his wife for Maggie whereupon yet another man propositions her. This time, she responds by beating him up.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_43dfe888	comment	Rats, Bats and Vats: When Fitzhugh strands General Cartup-Kruetzler and his secretary/mistress Daisy outside of the command center as they engage in some horse-themed sexual exploits, Daisy is mistaken for a prostitute and propositioned by the military police when they try to get back in.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld In Men at Arms, Angua finds a notebook in Captain Vimes' quarters with a list of women's names and dollar amounts. Having spent most of the book with a rather low opinion of Vimes, she naturally assumes they're prostitutes. They're widows and orphans of Watchmen. "Seamstress" is the accepted euphemism in Ankh-Morpork. In Night Watch Discworld, Dr Lawn explains there was a certain amount of confusion when Sandra Battye arrived in the city hoping to work as an actual seamstress. Inverted when Vimes questions why she's still hanging out with the "seamstresses", and Lawn points out there are plenty of men who make the opposite mistake, and are genuinely looking for someone to darn their socks.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_4691b320	comment	Ichaicha Suru to Okane ga Waichau Futari no Hanashi: Haru is heading to lunch with her friend Natsuki, but realizes she's forgotten her wallet. She sees Hojo, and runs into an alley with him, then emerges with money.note There's a weird phenomenon where money appears out of thin air when the two of them are affectionate towards each other. It's not hard to see how Natsuki gets the wrong idea.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_4a47d090	comment	The White Lotus: The hotel's lounge singer mistakes Mia for a prostitute and straight up asks her how much she charges. In his defense, Mia herself had commented earlier that her outfit and makeup did made her look like a prostitute. It's somewhat understandable as she came with her friend Lucia, who is a prostitute. Further, as she does have sex with people to get jobs they aren't that far off.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_4f069988	comment	In the second episode of Comic Girls, Ruki's classmates wonder if she is in a "shady profession" owing from her being chronically underslept. This is because she's a Sequential Artist, not than anything else.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_504bb54c	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Carina Smyth introduces herself as a horologist (someone who studies time), but the others think it means whore.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family: Before becoming an office worker at city hall, Yor Briar's job involved men meeting her for "massages" at hotels, causing her gossipy coworkers to suspect the worst. As sketchy as it sounds, it was actually a cover for her to commit assassinations.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_5488f282	comment	Water (1985): The governor and his wife go to meet the famous movie star filming a Spenco advertisement at the well. The actor, assuming she's the hooker he demanded, slings her over his shoulder and proceeds to carry her off to his trailer.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_5562da6a	comment	3rd Rock from the Sun: In an episode, Dick is convinced that he's about to be recalled to the home planet and is worried about what will happen to Mary without him. When they're at a bar, he tries to find a man to set her up with. They're thrown out after being mistaken for a pimp and hooker. In another episode, Nina thinks that she's been mistaken for being a prostitute, but actually Harry was just trying to play the role of the tooth fairy. It Makes Sense in Context.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick has a joke where Roy finds his sister, Julia after her kidnapping, and assumes from her dress sense that she had been subjected to Go-Go Enslavement.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_57b6a595	comment	Played intentionally in Copperhead by Bronson, who strips down to infiltrate a brothel and take one of the clients hostage.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_5e1213a8	comment	In the novel Neverwhere, Richard initially thinks that the master bodyguard Hunter is a prostitute based on a combination of how she dresses and the fact that she advertises that she supplies "personal physical services" (which is actually a non-sexual Unusual Euphemism).
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_5ec920a5	comment	In Aztek, while waiting for Curt Falconer for their date, nurse Joy Page gets bothered by a guy thinking she's "hustling".
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_5ff059fa	comment	Viper gets hit with this trope in The Wolverine. Being who she is, this goes badly for the potential John.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_60b9f111	comment	Wynonna Earp: When Doc Holliday first meets Wynonna in Shorty's, he assumes she is a prostitute. It is only when she mentions her name that he realises that she is a descendant of his old partner.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: In "Adventures In Hayleysitting", Steve and his friends sneak off to a party while Hayley is supposed to be watching them. Hayley catches them, but gets drunk at the party. Steve is forced to drive home, since they just learned that their parents will be home early. Steve gets pulled over by a cop, who assumes Hayley is a prostitute that the boys have hired. Hayley doesn't take offense to this and instead seemed flattered.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera: Happens briefly in Captain's Fury. Isana (who, as a powerful watercrafter, looks younger than she is) is mistaken for a prostitute by two policemen while she is hanging around outside a building in the upper-middle-class Craft Lane. Apparently it is not uncommon for wealthy students at the Academy to pay a prostitute to meet them closer to the school, then to not show up for various reasons. Unlike most examples of this trope the two policemen are relatively polite about the matter given the social norms, especially since Isana quickly realizes their mistake and manages to convince them that it would be unwise of them to make an issue of the situation (though not explicitly stated, the implication is that they believe she is a Lady incognito for some reason). They quickly leave her in peace, much to Isana's relief since she was in fact acting as a look-out while Kitai robbed the place. At least it provided a built-in excuse for her to hang around in the street...
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_63213484	comment	Persepolis: This happened to Marjane when she recounts her only meeting with a Kuwaiti refugee from The Gulf War where he is driving a nice car and accosts her while she is walking the street drinking soda. He harasses her asking "How much? How much" before she splashes her drink in his face in anger.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_638624c8	comment	In the Slayers Special OVA, Lina and Naga the Serpent are hired by a woman who wants to make her son Jeffrey into a man... which the two interpret as the woman trying to hire Naga to sleep with him. Lina has to explain to the woman that even though Naga's outfit is Stripperiffic, the two of them don't do that sort of thing. Turns out she just wants to hire them as bodyguards.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_6873fde2	comment	A male case occurs in Doctrine of Labyrinths — due to his unusually bright clothing and lack of directional sense, Felix gets mistaken for a prostitute by a group of opportunistic thugs. Luckily, a real prostitute smoothes things over for him.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_696b75c2	comment	In A Brother's Price, Jerin manages to be mistaken for a whore (a female whore, that is; male prostitutes are never out on the streets unguarded) for a short period of time, but the disguise, consisting of makeup and a feather boa, doesn't fool the villains.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_69eca61f	comment	In Prime Suspect 1, as soon as DCI Jane Tennison sits to have a drink in a pub with two prostitutes she's questioning, a man asks her for 15 minutes in his van parked outside.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_6c6852c9	comment	Yakuza 5: In one of Shinada's substories, he meets a sweet young woman named Miki who works at the batting cages. He previously heard his debt collector Takasugi talk to her over the phone about having her work at a bathhouse to pay off her debt, and to stop complaining about her aching jaw. Shinada jumps to the obvious conclusion, but when he eventually asks her about it, it turns out Takasugi has her working as a janitor, cleaning a public bathhouse at night. Her aching jaw was due to temporomandibular joint disorder, and she's in debt to cover the money she borrowed for her medical treatment.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_6ea7c33b	comment	Altered Carbon: Takeshi Kovacs' first instinct upon seeing that Poe brought a well-dressed woman to his room is to think she's a hooker (in fairness, he did ask Poe to arrange such services in the previous episode). She's actually his employer's attorney, who is unimpressed at this demonstration of an Envoy's legendary observational skills.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7149a731	comment	Wonder Woman (2017): Discussed when Steve is concerned that Diana walking around London with him in her very revealing getup is going to get him arrested for solicitation.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7183cbff	comment	In Blessed with a Hero's Heart, a group of thugs who run into Kyouya's party mistakes Aqua and Clemea the Thief for prostitutes, due to the way they're dressed.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_72a1ac51	comment	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has Kendl wearing nothing but shorts and a tied up shirt, making herself quite revealing. Her brother, Sweet, scolds her for how she dresses and tells her that she looks like a hooker, but she brushes it off as her brother being paranoid and overprotective. Later on, Kendl runs to CJ complaining about how a bunch of construction workers were hitting on her and trying to show her "a good time". CJ gives payback by killing all the workers and pushing the port-a-potty with the foreman inside down a pit and filling it with cement. Grand Theft Auto V has Tonya (an actual prostitute) believing that her childhood friend Franklin has become a rentboy due to vaguely sourced gossip. It's true in that Franklin has been hanging out with a rich white guy, but only as his protégé as a professional criminal, nothing more.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_752075f	comment	Outlander: In the very first episode, Black Jack and the Highlanders all think Claire might be a prostitute because her (quite modest) 1940s white dress looks like underwear to them-and because she's brash and unafraid to swear. Claire is later mistaken for a prostitute by other prostitutes in a brothel, though its understandable as she came down from the upstairs room which Jamie rents after having had sex with him. When Brianna first approaches him, Jamie mistakes her intentions as a proposition, telling her that he's married.
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Outlander	hasFeature	Mistaken for Prostitute / int_752075f
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2, a female Shepard has this exchange with a Batarian recruiter on Omega, who uses the trope as an insult.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7680545c	comment	The Nanny: In "Where's The Pearls?", Fran gets amnesia and mistakenly thinks she's Maxwell's wife, until he tries to set things straight.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_76db0ea5	comment	Power Girl was suspected of being a prostitute by an alien magistrate who thought her attire was too indecent, having "unacceptable levels of cleavage". He got his brains blown out by Harley Quinn, who was accompanying her at the time.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_76dcbaa7	comment	Subtly done in Under Night In-Birth, when Akatsuki meets Hilda:
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms "Spin a Yarn" story from 2003:
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7884ec15	comment	Inverted in an episode of Seinfeld, where Kramer, dressed in the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, wearing a large fuzzy hat, and walking with a cane, tries to remove a prostitute from doing business in his car. A cop mistakes him for a pimp, and he's arrested.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7a2e12e5	comment	Spider-Man: Far From Home: With Peter Parker's constant appearances and disappearances, odd explanations when asked where he's been, and worthwhile physique, at least one of his classmates thinks he's a male escort. It doesn't help that at one point, Peter is caught changing his clothes in front of a beautiful woman.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7a380f3b	comment	General Hospital: As Tiffany waits for her friend Laura outside the strip joint The Paradise Lounge (Laura has gone inside to speak with the owner), a beat cop assumes she's a hooker waiting for a client simply because she's wearing a fur coat. The idiot fails to recognize her either as a local celebrity (she's a TV reporter), or as the police commissioner's (his BOSS) wife. After remembering that she'd been sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend, Karen Wexler donned a provocative dress and wandered through a seedy part of town, possibly deliberately trying to invoke this. Indeed, an actual hooker orders her to get off her turf, and two creepy guys follow her until she manages to ditch them.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7bc59b9a	comment	This is how D'Artagnan and Constance meet in The Musketeers.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7d2292c	comment	In ATOM GRRRL!!, Big E does not take kindly to a police officer trying to bribe sexual favors out of her.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_7ec653e7	comment	A Good Woman Is Hard To Find: Sarah gets hit on repeatedly by an older man who works in the market and believes she's working as a prostitute—he hints that he's interested, to her dismay.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_880e128d	comment	In Life in Pieces, Matt and Colleen try to have sex in his car by the side of a road because they can't find any other place to be alone. They're stopped by a cop who angrily mutters that prostitutes never learn that it's not a good idea to do so.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_8a6d835c	comment	Similarly, on As the World Turns, Emily sleeps with a man she meets in a bar. Only after he leaves her money does she realize that he assumed she was a hooker. She decides that she enjoys this and promptly begins a secret life as an escort. Not until she gets beaten up by a client does she realize how dangerous her behavior is.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_8dba224e	comment	In The Cleveland Show Halloween Episode "Escape from Goochland", Donna confiscates Roberta's hooker costume. Cleveland convinced Donna to wear it. Later, she got arrested for being mistaken for a real one. As she was thrown into the police van with actual hookers, she tries to tell the cops she's just wearing a costume, even the hookers believe she's one too and mock her denial.
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The Cleveland Show	hasFeature	Mistaken for Prostitute / int_8dba224e
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_90feccf9	comment	Latchkey Kingdom: In the side-story "The Toy", the titular Living Toy advertises himself as a "plaything for hire", drawing the ire of the local prostitution guild which doesn't like competition. After some explanations, he's hired into the guild's daycare to entertain the kids of guild personnel.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_96ed7c35	comment	The Logan Legacy: While trying to wind down at a goth club following the death of Wolverine, X-23 is approached and propositioned by a man at the club. It's subverted a bit in that at one time in her life, Laura was a prostitute, however she has long since retired. She explains the situation and otherwise lets him down gently (as well as saving the John's life when the club is attacked by a pack of nihilistic idiots with too much time on their hands). During the Songs of the Orphan Child arc of her solo series, Laura encounters a young girl named Alice who approaches her in a diner. After a brief Sherlock Scan Laura deduces the girl is an abused prostitute, causing her to flee and get into a car with her pimp. Laura follows, and when she finds that the man has murdered her, she kills him in retaliation. Later, she and Gambit are captured by Ms. Sinister with the aid of Alice's Body Backup Drive clone, who reveals that her other self was not a prostitute at all: She was one of several clones Claudine Renko gave to Malcolm Colcord in his attempts to grant a Healing Factor to another subject, and the injuries Laura assumed were inflicted by her pimp were actually the result of testing to see if her healing factor was working. It wasn't, Alice was deemed defective, and she was instead purposed in an attempt to kidnap Laura. The man who killed her was her handler, not her pimp.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_97a95fc8	comment	Sisters: Daughter Reed starts an escort service. When a man asks her mother Alex out on a date, she's shocked and horrified at the lewd advances the man makes, and even more shocked when he tells her that he assumed she was one of Reed's call girls, having seen the two together.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_986f25e0	comment	Murder in the Alps: In the chapter "Ladies of the Night", the heroine, Anna Myers, is writing articles on prostitutes and because she goes to a brothel to get her information, the owner indicates that clients who came to the brothel have assumed that she was a prostitute herself. Later, three men harass her under the same assumption, but not only does Max Frost come to her aid, she takes two of the men down herself while Max takes out the third! The trio wisely bolt rather than get another beating.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_98f68ac6	comment	Inverted in Once Upon a Crime, where a jaded housewife meets a man in a casino who gives her a valuable chip. She assumes he thinks she's a prostitute and becomes deeply offended... because she was willing to sleep with him anyway to spite her husband. He explains that the chip was simply her share of his winnings for calling the right roulette number.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_99102298	comment	A rare gender inverted example in The Two Ronnies serial "The Worm That Turned", but then it does take place in a female supremacist dictatorship where all gender roles are inverted.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_9a09fed9	comment	In The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior, a couple of guards think Layla is a wayward concubine when she attempts to distract them.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_9aab7b0a	comment	In Swamp Thing, when Abby skips bail after being charged with crimes against nature for her relationship with the title character, she flees to Gotham, stops to ask some prostitutes to recommend a place to stay, and gets picked up along with them in a police sting.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_9aac0273	comment	In Men at Arms, Angua finds a notebook in Captain Vimes' quarters with a list of women's names and dollar amounts. Having spent most of the book with a rather low opinion of Vimes, she naturally assumes they're prostitutes. They're widows and orphans of Watchmen.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_9caa9883	comment	Knight Bewitched: In Gabenport, the party talks with a girl offering her services in an inn, Gwen is pretty eager to accept it, up until she realizes the woman is actually tickling people and nothing more.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_9ce851a3	comment	Lois in Malcolm in the Middle gets a rather trashy makeover that she has to wear for her job. When a stranger assumes she's a hooker, she is outraged... then she thanks him and drags him into her boss's office to convince him to let her go back to her old look. Though it was also because the man she brought in happened to be her boss' brother-in-law.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_9d7264f	comment	One episode of CSI: Miami had a living victim who had been drugged at a hotel. She was a prostitute at the time, but explains that it started due to this trope. She was having a drink at the hotel's bar, started flirting with a man, and wound up booking a room to sleep with him. After they finished up, he said "I know we didn't discuss price, but this should cover it," dropped $500 on the bed, and left. She was stunned, but rather than get offended, she went "Hey, money is money," and decided to make a career out of it.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_a03656d	comment	A Brighter Dark: Corrin assumes Kagero is a prostitute in their first encounter (though knowing this version of Corrin, she could have been joking).
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_a9ad40a8	comment	The Commish: A prostitution ring is uncovered when a businessman orders a blonde dressed as a police officer, and runs into a Hot Cop in the hotel lobby. She's a brunette but he's too excited to care. He asks to be arrested as part of the roleplay. She happily obliges.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_ab853f65	comment	In the Song of Songs, the Shulamite worries that her Beloved is going to see her as "one who veils herself", which in Biblical times is usually the sign of a prostitute.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_ac955237	comment	In Demon Knights, a young girl sees Exoristos and says she "dresses like a tart" and Exoristos not only thanks her but asks if it's some sort of pastry.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_aff70040	comment	Biggie Shorty in Pootie Tang dresses skimpily and likes to stand on the street (usually listening and dancing to Pootie's music). However, when two guys roll up in car and ask how how much she would charge to do them both, she starts physically assaulting them, pointing out that she's not a hooker. When one of them weakly tries to tell her that anyone would get the wrong idea based on how she looks, she increases the beating.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_b0869b12	comment	In Ashes to Ashes (2008), DI Alex Drake arrives in 1981 dressed as a prostitute, and the entire station thinks she actually is one until she produces her warrant card.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_b1170177	comment	L.A. Confidential: While investigating a ring of movie-star lookalike call girls, the detective mistakes the actual Lana Turner for a hooker. While she's hanging out with her mafia boyfriend.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_b36b5e78	comment	Hers: A mother and two daughters are rendered homeless when the tiny kiosk they have been living in is hauled away for demolition. At one point, when Mom is standing vigil outside the mayor's office demanding help, daughters Ariunaa and Barchimeg get a room in a flophouse hotel. They are promptly swept up in an anti-prostitution raid of the flophouse, and are arrested. They spend a traumatic night in jail before a friend shows up and gets them out.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_b60b7a6b	comment	In The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), a naked Supergirl wanders confused into an alley, having just woken up from her rocket, and is spotted by three workers. One of them mistakes her for a prostitute and decides to play Lothario only to have his hand crushed and be slammed through a wall. The second tries to help his friend. The third wisely proclaims he's not with the other two and offers her his coat.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_b61bbe0a	comment	Modern Family: In "Written In The Stars", Jay and Gloria go to a restaurant for Valentine's Day, where they roleplay as a client and a prostitute. Unfortunately, their act is too convincing and the manager asks them to leave.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_b6f0e9c4	comment	Happens quite a lot to The Princess in A Dance with Rogues.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_b8abf9b6	comment	A short story within the Triptych Continuum series centers on this. Twilight, upon noting how bad Ponyville winters are, decides to make some extra bits teleporting others so they need not deal with the weather. Unfortunately, her familiarity with academic and technical terminology leaves her putting up flyers for Twilight's Escort Service.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_b9cf766a	comment	Impractical Jokers: Played for Comedy in the episode "Scarytales". Q is punished by being forced to portray a children's book author with a story the other guys wrote for him, entitled "The Remarkable Misadventures of Q the Dung Beetle", which he shows to a group of children and parents. The book itself features a fight between Q the Dung Beetle and his wife, who storms out. The next page is just her walking by a car which features another male dung beetle who asks "How much?" Q's response?
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_bbd25dac	comment	Friday picks up a guy for casual sex, then finds out afterwards that he's an Artificial Human like herself. She rushes to the transit station, and after futile hours of waiting and searching, she's politely asked to leave by a security official who assumes this trope. Friday realises the guy has long gone, so doesn't bother arguing and just leaves.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_c2374a54	comment	This happens to Red Sonja on a semi-regular basis; largely due to her habit of hanging around seedy taverns in her Chain Mail Bikini. Thus usually ends badly for the person making the mistake, although she always gives them the opportunity to apologise before kicking their ass. They seldom take it.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The End of the World", after the Doctor tells Plant Alien Jabe that he and Rose aren't married, she assumes that Rose is a prostitute. Rose is not amused.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_c9b98f4e	comment	Discussed in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Smurfed Behind: The Passion Of The Smurfs", where Smurfette through time travel meets with the real Mary Magdalene and assumes that she was a prostitute, only to learn that Mary was mistaken for one.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_ca5d97f1	comment	In a sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus, a Dirty Old Man mistakes several posted advertisements as stealth prostitution ads ("small white pussycat for sale" etc.) but none of them are - except one.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_cc1983ac	comment	Derailed (2002): When Madeline discovers Galina in the bathroom of Jacques' cabin, she assumes Jacques is cheating on her and that Galina is an escort.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_ccf4b55d	comment	Silent Witness: In "Finding Rachel", Nikki Alexander investigates a crime in Africa, and is warned against wearing her jeans for this reason.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_d4efb984	comment	The Golden Girls: In "Ladies of the Evening", the trio goes on a vacation in Miami but end up being arrested under the assumption they're prostitutes. Blanche (who is the one who got them in the mess in the first place) makes it worse with her flirty attitude.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_d80d2982	comment	This frequently happens to Kimmy on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_d81d22b5	comment	Karin had a hard time explaining that it wasn't what it looked like when Usui confronted her over this (having seen her embracing an older man in the park), since she couldn't exactly tell him that she's actually a vampire.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_d8811eb6	comment	In Captain SNES: The Game Masta, Marle attempts to deal with people on the street in Nexus the same way Crono does: staring at them until they give useful information. However, she's no longer in her RPG world, and most of the people she attempts to talk to aren't NPCs, so it doesn't go well. Most people clue in to the fact that she's an RPG character, against which there is a lot of bias in Nexus, but at least a few of them mistake her for a prostitute.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_db3b75ff	comment	In an episode of Barney Miller, Fish is dressed as a woman while out on purse-snatching detail and gets hit on by an old man who offers "her" money.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_dc757598	comment	In the Esther Diamond novel Unsympathetic Magic, actress Esther is playing a prostitute while filming on location in Harlem. After witnessing some terrifying magic late at night, she runs out into traffic screaming about zombies and men with swords. Unsurprisingly, the drivers who stop for her assume she's on drugs and either tell her to get out of the way or try to hire her.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_dcf7d02e	comment	In Private Actress, Shiho meets Mariko Soriarno when she's being accosted by Japanese guys who think she's a prospect hooker after catching her in Shinjuku. Mariko angrily tries to brush them off and then Shiho comes to her aid.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_dd8198f3	comment	Las Vegas: A meta-example in the pilot. Danny McCoy, the main character and Character Narrator for the first few episodes, is going through his work day and introducing the various supporting characters. After talking with his buxom colleague Mary, she walks off with one of her (older, male) clients, and Danny turns to the audience with "No, I know what you're thinking, and don't go there. Mary's not a hooker, she's our Special Events Director".
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_df424ee8	comment	In a bit of Chapter 26 of Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun that was animated as a part of episode 9, Out-of-Context Eavesdropping about Miyako asking Maeno on the phone to "call again at night" made her colleagues wonder if she's living "a degenerate lifestyle" that involves "transactions at night." Miyako is actually a Sequential Artist and Maeno is her editor.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_e036ebd3	comment	There's an episode of Happy Endings where Alex is mistaken for a prostitute. Specifically, she's wearing an old-fashioned sexy fur coat draped over a tight red dress on Valentine's Day, and she waves over a car, leans into the window and asks the driver if they're looking for a party — because she was lost.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_e0af40c5	comment	Reigning Passions: Inverted in Xenia's first episode. When she tells the heroine that she needs her to "play a role for [her]" (posing as a princess, as she is soon to clarify), the heroine thinks she's being solicited.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_e22b4ac3	comment	On 2 Broke Girls, Max and Caroline thought Sophie was a prostitute when they first met her, due to her short, cleavage-barring clothes and a poor choice of words to describe the maid service she runs.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_e4b92885	comment	In Bells Are Ringing, Inspector Barnes suspects Susanswerphone of being a prostitution front. Some unfortunate remarks made by Ella nearly land her and the other employees in the Women's Detention Home; it doesn't help that one of their subscribers is named Madame Grimaldi, and Ella gets highly offended when she suddenly realizes that Barnes was assuming that kind of Madam.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_e4cdebd9	comment	In Pandora's Tale, Pandora is assumed to be sex worker by a visitor to the club, based solely on the fact that she's a Helper.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_e764d136	comment	In So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Ford makes the logical assumption when he meets a woman on the streets of a Wretched Hive who tells him she has a special service she performs for rich people. It turns out she's a social economist who is paid to tell them it's okay to be rich.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_e927cf1f	comment	Michelle constantly gets this in the sleepy small town of Paradise in Bunheads. She may have been a Las Vegas dancer, but it was always above board and she gets offended when she gets accused of doing worse.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_ea3a10ed	comment	In 12 Monkeys, when Dr. Railly takes Cole into a rundown hotel, the desk clerk, who would get a cut from the local pimp, calls the pimp to report a prostitute not giving him the kick-back.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_ead7c180	comment	Rachel Morgan, the heroine of The Hollows series, is noted for having unfortunate dress sense. Because of the way she is dressed, she is mistaken for a hooker in the first scene of the first novel. It remains a Running Gag for the first few books; Vampiric Charms, her Occult Detective agency, even gets listed under Escorts in the phone book.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_ef57d399	comment	The Mountain and the Wolf: One of the Norscans tries to buy Melisandre, despite not speaking the language. The Wolf thinks it's hilarious, but it turns out he's wearing a torc that cancels magic, meaning he saw through Melisandre's glamour and thus saw only his henchman trying pay a hideous old crone for sex.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: Happens twice to Robin. She goes on a date with a nerd to prove something to Barney and he assumes she is a hooker. The next time happens when she sneaks into a prom by pretending to be another nerd's date. Earlier there is the episode "Mary The Paralegal" where Barney tells Ted he's getting him an escort for the night but he reveals to the others that she isn't. The trope is played straight at the end of the episode because Ted doesn't know. Zoe, Ted’s season 6 girlfriend, first met him when he mistook her for a drag queen prostitute, to be fair he was propositioned by one a few moments before meeting her.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_f3ebb71e	comment	Masquerade of the Red Death: At one point, Dire McCann returns to his hotel room with both of his vampiric bodyguards ...both of whom are female and wearing tight clothing. The hotel security guard immediately makes this assumption, and has to be hit with vampiric Domination to avoid problems.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_f5c28dbb	comment	Happens in 1634 The Galileo Affair with Giovanna at a fancy dress party. Made awkward by how everyone wants to make clear that there's nothing wrong with prostitution per se. Then we learn that this is a recurring problem for Venetian Jews, who are required by law to wear yellow hats or veils in public — the same colour as prostitutes.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Phoebe, who is a legitimate massage therapist, gets called into work while her half-brother is visiting and invites him to come along and get a massage from one of the other masseuses. Thanks to Frank being a horny idiot he assumes Phoebe works at the Happy-Ending Massage kind of "parlor" and hits on his masseuse. Jasmine corrects him by throwing him in a wristlock and marching him back to Phoebe. In season four Rachel's boyfriend is housesitting for his parents who come home early and find Rachel in the living room wearing her lingerie. Joshua's mother stammers out that the money they left him was to buy groceries and not anything else, implying that she thinks Rachel is a prostitute he hired.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_f76b14b4	comment	The Quick and the Dead: When Lady first arrives at the saloon, the bartender tells her "Whores next door" without turning around. She quickly corrects his misapprehension by kicking the chair he is standing on out from underneath him.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_faeae075	comment	In God Bless America, a pedophile mistakes Roxy for a child prostitute and Frank for her pimp.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_fb83eb7b	comment	In the first book of The Sword of Truth, Richard and Kahlan enter an inn in a Wretched Hive. Kahlan is immediately mistaken for a whore. Not wanting to cause bloodshed, she merely pretends to have a day off with Richard being hired by her.
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Mistaken for Prostitute / int_fe4dc9c6	comment	The Chronicles of Dorsa: Tasia is disguised as a baker's girl in the city, but one of the guards who rescue her see through her disguise quickly, thinking she's a prostitute instead. He thinks he's owed free sex as a result, and nearly attempts to rape her before Tasia gets away.
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