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Platonic Prostitution

885 statements
171 feature instances
108 referencing feature instances

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Platonic Prostitution	label	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution	page	PlatonicProstitution
Platonic Prostitution	comment	Suppose you have a Hooker with a Heart of Gold. She's probably had a world's worth of men, ranging from unsavory to less savory. But sometimes, either to her relief or to her profound annoyance, she meets one of these. These men — and they're almost always men — visit prostitutes not to have sex with them, as one would expect, but for some other purpose. Perhaps he's religious and trying to reform her. Perhaps she's too young for the business and he wants to get her out of it. Perhaps he just wants conversation and can't think of another way to get it, or he wants his friends to think he's more promiscuous than he really is. Perhaps he wants information concerning one of her clients. Perhaps he's Transgender or a Sweet Polly Oliver, and doesn't want her to discover this. Perhaps he needs a grunt for something and figures, "If you'll have sex for money, there's not a lot you won't do for money." Perhaps he's a widower who misses the warmth of a woman sleeping next to him. If other characters find out, they will rarely believe that he's not in it for the sex. This is Truth in Television — in real life, surprisingly common and known as "emotion work." In Japan there exists an industry called "hostess clubs" where they pay for conversation rather than for sex. See also Enjo Kosai. May be a consequence of the customer being asked Need a Hand, or a Handjob?. Shady Lady of the Night is a closely related trope, where sex may or may not be involved, just usually not with the original commissioner (if there is one). Examples
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Platonic Prostitution / int_10bc0a19	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_10bc0a19	comment	Seamstresses have been challenged by this for at least 30 years. In Night Watch a rather embarrassed older gentleman called on a young Miss Palm with something he just hasn't been able to do since the missus died: a bag of socks that needed mending. Luckily, her roommate is a needlewoman. Calling themselves "seamstresses" is probably the root of the problem. In a later book it's mentioned that brothels keep a seamstress on staff so that men can get their socks darned while they "get their socks darned".
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Platonic Prostitution / int_14365438	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_14365438	comment	In Saxondale, an old mate of Tommy's who he's reunited with hires a couple of prostitutes for an evening. Whilst Tommy's mate receives the standard service, Tommy himself is in a happy, stable relationship and unwilling to risk it, with the result that he and the other prostitute end up in her room sitting on the bed making awkward conversation. Much to his bemusement, she ends up giving him some useful pointers on how to help improve his fading vision without resorting to his glasses; turns out she's an optometry student.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_1463a028	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Subverted once: Another episode featured a man who claimed that he deliberately sought out prostitutes who resembled his late wife, but didn't have sex with them, instead just wanting to lay in bed with them. In Season 14, it's revealed that Cragen has been hiring escorts to have dinner and talk with. This is due to both loneliness and the horrific crimes he sees. Unfortunately, this is then used against him when he is framed for killing a prostitute. A number of them claim that he did sleep with them, and that it was all violent sex.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_14650467	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_14650467	comment	In The Killing of John Lennon, Chapman hires a prostitute for company on the night before he pulls off his plan, in an attempt to recreate a scene from The Catcher in the Rye.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_17af7793	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_17af7793	comment	Inverted somewhat by the movie Trading Places. Dan Aykroyd's character never actually hires Jamie Lee Curtis' but he enjoys her "services" all the same. They then begin a purely business relationship where technically she is his sponsor. Played straight when Beeks hires Ophelia to pretend to be Louis' girlfriend at the police station.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_1a5d84af	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_1a5d84af	comment	Kenji does this in 20th Century Boys in order to gain access to Professor Shikijima's daughter.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_1a80880b	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_1a80880b	comment	In the young adult novel Bloody Jack, the protagonist is a Sweet Polly Oliver in her early teens who hasn't had any older female confidantes in the past few years, and winds up hiring a prostitute once she's on shore leave to fill her in on what is going on with her body (because of course, she can't ask the ship's surgeon).
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Platonic Prostitution / int_22046752	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_22046752	comment	On Borgen, Katrine and Hanne have figured out that someone set up the foreign minister by hiring a male escort to seduce him. They hire the escort themselves, so they can pump him for information about the blackmail scheme.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_22211d68	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_22211d68	comment	Booth from Bones was mistaken for "one of those guys who only wants to talk" when he needed to interview a call-girl as part of a case.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2275c659	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_2275c659	comment	Played with a bit in House, where House hires hookers for various non-sex reasons (like pranking his team or making sure he doesn't stop breathing) — but then has sex with them too. One episode had House auditioning girls after his regular tells him she's leaving the business. Skills he's interested in are fixing home appliances and tuning pianos. Why? He says he wants to get something out of them for the remaining 57 minutes of the hour he pays for.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_22a69b0b	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_22a69b0b	comment	Parodied on MADtv, where a guy hires a prostitute to verbally abuse him, just like his ex-wife used to.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_230ec9cf	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_230ec9cf	comment	JJ in Skins, largely because he'd been dragged to the brothel against his will (by Cook).
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Platonic Prostitution / int_248a0d14	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_248a0d14	comment	In an episode of Lie to Me, the team discovers that a politician regularly visits a prostitute, but not for sex. She turns out to be his daughter.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_261c8d3f	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_261c8d3f	comment	In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer is taking Santa's Little Helper out for a last night of debauchery before having him neutered, which includes hiring a canine prostitute for him. Homer asks the bitch's owner, who is also a prostitute, if she's up for some air hockey while they wait. She tells him she's $350 an hour, to which he replies "You're on!" and rushes into the nearby arcade while the prostitute drags her feet to stretch the time.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2622861c	comment	In The Painter from Shanghai, the eponymous heroine, while working as a teenage prostitute, is sent as a good-will present to a local official. But said official is a principled man and, although he keeps her for the night, he doesn't do anything with her. Ultimately he falls in love with her and takes her up as a concubine.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_27831967	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_27831967	comment	In Parks and Recreation, Leslie gets a "Babe Lincoln" male stripper for a party, but ends up using him for labor when she realizes how ill-advised her scheme to bury Native American artifacts on a plot of land she wanted to protect was. For the duration of his paid time, he's made to dig with Leslie and her friends to find the arrowheads she seeded, with him getting reminded that they paid for his time there.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_28724fb2	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_28724fb2	comment	In Titanic (1997), Jack Dawson's drawings of nude women are of French prostitutes acting as models. Which isn't to say he might not have had sex with them, too, it's just not the main reason he hired them.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2a04d32b	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_2a04d32b	comment	Milk Money: A group of young boys try to hire a prostitute to let them see her body.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2a9edae	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_2a9edae	comment	Parodied in an episode of The Kids in the Hall, where a nice man offers to take the prostitute away from her life of prostitution, and ends up marrying and having kids with her... and then the money runs out and her pimp (now an old man) comes to hassle the guy.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle: Played for laughs when Richard hires a High-Class Call Girl who may have potentially useful information in solving that week's murder solely because it'll be an easier way of finding her than the police department's method of tracking her down via her offshore-based website. As soon as she turns up for their "date", Beckett intercedes. Same prostitute, different client: The Victim of the Week apparently hired the call girl mostly to talk, due to his career leaving him little time to actually date (though she did specify mostly, so they did still have sex). It then turns out that he had taken over the whole prostitution organization from its previous pimp, and used the call girl to run the day-to-day operations. While she was a model rather than prostitute, he also arranges a date with a young woman he meets during a case. A playdate, that is: she used to babysit his daughter for him and he thinks having Alexis around will help keep the model out of trouble.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2bf58725	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_2bf58725	comment	In the I, Richard Plantagenet Series, a quite young Richard is taken to a brothel by his mentor/older cousin Jockey so Richard can loose his virginity. The prostitute recognizes Richard doesn't want to be there, so they play chess and talk all night. Richard later has a few pre-marital liaisons, but he's never comfortable in brothels.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2e7ed09c	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_2e7ed09c	comment	A variant: on Special Unit 2, Nick goes to a strip club and pays to have two twin strippers alone in the private room for an hour. His partner Kate is rather annoyed, until she realizes they're actually supernatural creatures (the politically-correct term is "Links", thank you very much) he needs to interrogate for the latest case.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2f879a72	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_2f879a72	comment	Red Ears: Parodied. A hooker is approached by an unknowing John in a bar and gives him an offer of "anything he wants" if he can express it in three words only. He ponders for a moment before replying "paint my house". Another strip had an insomniac hire a streetwalker to read him a bed-time story. She obliges, but is rather nonplussed. One strip featured a truck driver paying a ridiculous sum at the local brothel for "the ugliest prostitute you have, wearing a bathrobe, no make-up and flip-flops, calling me an asshole while I eat a grilled cheese sandwich and drink beer in front of the TV". No sex. The woman he hired is naturally curious what's up, so he admits that he's just homesick.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_2fa6ae81	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_2fa6ae81	comment	In Blade of the Immortal, Magatsu hides out at a brothel occasionally, since he's a wanted man, and befriends one of the girls there. However, while he does share a bed with her, he refuses to touch her out of respect, even though O-Ren makes it clear she loves him and wants them to have sex.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_32c541e6	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Everybody just chalks Colonel Roy Mustang's frequent visits to Madame Christmas's place up to Handsome Lechery. They are wrong, he's actually nice inside. The proprietor is his aunt and adoptive mother, and he uses the girls as an information network.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_343830b9	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: Chapter 7 of the original features Kyril visiting the Rosie and its mistress Shani, who is said to have connections with one of Alicia's wayward knights. Rather than for sex, he's here to gather the intelligence needed to strike back at Arc Villain Beasley and his forces, as well as to get a place for his apprentices to rest at (that is, to sleep under a blanket).
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Platonic Prostitution / int_3501cc23	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_3501cc23	comment	Gentleman Bastard: Locke Lamora tries to hire a prostitute for the normal purpose in the first book, but ends up just getting conversation and a massage because his pining for his true love prevents him from, er, performing.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_3558eaa2	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community Inverted in the episode "The Politics of Human Sexuality", in which Pierce is in a non-business relationship with Doreen. Initially. Doreen also describes how, contrary to opinion, this sort of thing is actually what she spends most of her "dates" doing, her clientele generally being of an age where they want to be with a woman they can converse with as well as find sexually attractive.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_35822bc0	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_35822bc0	comment	In Irma la Douce, Nestor creates an alter ego, a British nobleman named "Lord X", to become the sole client of the eponymous prostitute he's infatuated with so she can't have sex with anyone but him, and "Lord X" in turn does nothing but play cards with her.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_391b22c9	comment	In one of the side stories written for Emma: A Victorian Romance, a prostitute propositions the lonely-looking young opera singer protagonist at the pub. He spends a pleasant evening with her — by buying her dinner and having a nice chat.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the friendly, hedonistic Iron Bull takes a shine to the human-shaped spirit Cole. In a possible conversation between the two, Bull tells Cole he's hiring him a prostitute for the night in hopes of seeing Cole act more like a "person". In their next conversation, Bull asks Cole if he had a fun night, and Cole happily reports that "she danced... then I untangled the hurt that made her angry at her mother! I helped her write a letter to send home". Bull is chagrined.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_3afcdfbb	comment	In The Sun Also Rises the main character hires a prostitute, but as he is impotent from an injury sustained during World War I, he just hangs out with her and compensates her for her time.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_3ccddc64	comment	Virtuosity: Sheila 3.2, a virtual reality sex doll whose function is to deduce your psycho-sexual needs and fulfill them, is also said to be very skilled at chess by her creator.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: Michael unknowingly hires a prostitute for his entire staff, but everyone just uses her as a shoulder to cry on. Of course, he later gets a call stating that she's "blown them all away," which he notes kept forgetting to include the "away". It's also shown that while she was frequently hired by Michael's womanizing father and brother, both also used her as a "shoulder to cry on" rather than for sex. She ends up being a Hooker with a Heart of Gold, saving the company by spending money in a secret account inside the company to benefit the workers in order to avoid embezzlement charges.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_3e4a348a	comment	In the Town of Salem Affectionate Parody series Town of Salem IRL, the Escort and Consort distract their targets by playing video games with them.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_3f633fb4	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked features an article about how easy it is to accidentally pick up a prostitute.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_40438f71	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_40438f71	comment	While she's not a prostitute, in Black Knight (2001), Jamal asks for Victoria to be brought into his chambers, so he could talk to her about him not wanting to kill the king (Victoria being a member of La RÃ©sistance), since the king did allow him to sleep with any woman in the palace. She initially assumes he just wants sex and shows up wearing nothing but a bedsheet. He explains he just wants to talk, but he knows the guards outside the door will be listening, so he has her make the appropriate sounds in-between whispers.
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Black Knight (2001)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_40438f71
Platonic Prostitution / int_4139b0e7	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_4139b0e7	comment	In Unforgiven, the protagonists are working for some hookers and while the others are taking part of their pay in sex, Clint Eastwood's character is having heart to hearts with the one who got cut up.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_42bf13c9	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_42bf13c9	comment	In Dirty Work, Mitch gets back at a jerkass owner of a used car lot by hiring a bunch of prostitutes to get in the trunk of his cars and pretend to be dead during the broadcast of a live television commercial. Later in the film Mitch hires the same prostitutes to act as security while getting revenge on the Big Bad.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_42bf13c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Dirty Work	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_42bf13c9
Platonic Prostitution / int_43da6f7f	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_43da6f7f	comment	In Memento, Leonard hires a prostitute to trick his future self for a moment into thinking that his wife is still alive.
Platonic Prostitution / int_43da6f7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_43da6f7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Memento	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_43da6f7f
Platonic Prostitution / int_444f7f18	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_444f7f18	comment	The Adepts of Eglantine House in Kushiel's Legacy. In addition to being Servants of Naamah (i.e. prostitutes) they're all trained as actors, acrobats, musicians, dancers and the like and are frequently employed as such.
Platonic Prostitution / int_444f7f18	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_444f7f18	featureConfidence	1.0
Kushiel's Legacy	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_444f7f18
Platonic Prostitution / int_45d098f8	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_45d098f8	comment	Get Medieval: After being asked if he'd Need a Hand, or a Handjob?, Asher ends up paying Belle just to listen to him talk.
Platonic Prostitution / int_45d098f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_45d098f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Get Medieval (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_45d098f8
Platonic Prostitution / int_45e003dc	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_45e003dc	comment	In the movie Rat Race, a character is hired to pretend to do this as the result of a bet to see how much money the hooker would request. He asks that instead of having sex, they both get naked, get into a jacuzzi filled with Pepto-Bismol while wearing nothing but sailor hats, and he clips her toenails while she shaves his buttocks.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_45e003dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Rat Race	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_45e003dc
Platonic Prostitution / int_468bebb0	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Sourcery, Seriph Creosote of Al-Khali doesn't do much with the women in his seraglio but have them tell him stories and use them as an audience for his dreadful poetry. In Monstrous Regiment, a veteran Sweet Polly Oliver passes on the tip for a woman-playing-a-man-in-uniform to visit the camp followers every once in a while, just to keep up appearances. She says she always brought a book and told the other girl to take a well-earned break. It also mentions that the ladies in question are familiar with the type of customer who hires them to preach at them. In Guards! Guards!, Carrot is offered a place to stay at Mrs. Palm's house of very good repute after he rescues one of her â€œdaughtersâ€�, Reet. As he writes back to his parents, Reet woke him up during the night to ask him if there was anything he wanted, but they didn't have any apples. So he stays. And pays for the first month up front. Because he thinks it's a boarding house. Many people are surprised and rather impressed to learn that he stays there every night. Carrot ended up being an unwitting bouncer when "The daughter's unruly gentlemen callers" get too rough. Seamstresses have been challenged by this for at least 30 years. In Night Watch a rather embarrassed older gentleman called on a young Miss Palm with something he just hasn't been able to do since the missus died: a bag of socks that needed mending. Luckily, her roommate is a needlewoman. Calling themselves "seamstresses" is probably the root of the problem. In a later book it's mentioned that brothels keep a seamstress on staff so that men can get their socks darned while they "get their socks darned".
Platonic Prostitution / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_468bebb0
Platonic Prostitution / int_468c2a7a	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_468c2a7a	comment	Judge Dee: The Judge repeatedly runs into prostitutes, but never takes anything more than a cup of tea from them. On occasion a High-Class Call Girl will try to get her hooks into him, but fortunately he manages to avoid them (and keeps one from getting married to his colleague Lo, who has more than eight wives). In "The Coffins of the Emperor", he accompanies a low-class prostitute home, and gets her to talk for a while. He learns that her quasi-husband is going to be executed for murdering a fellow officer's wife, and she was whipped for providing him with a false alibi. She thinks the judge is scorning her for her scars, in fact he's thinking about the irregularities involved in the judgement. Thankfully he's able to find out that the murderer was the dead woman's husband, who was in love with the other officer and pulled a If I Can't Have Youâ€¦. In "The Chinese Bell Murders", the judge hires two young prostitutes, ostensibly as concubines. His subordinates are rather pained at the brutality with which he brings them into his household (not to mention his wives), but he later explains everything (the girls were bait to expose a long-running religious scam that provided women with male heirs via rape and blackmailed them into paying for it). At the end the girls hope he will marry them, but he sends them back to their home province with a large reward so they can find good husbands. Subverted with the judge's lieutenants Ma Jong and Tsiao Tai, who regularly visit brothels and sometimes get useful information out of it as a bonus.
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Judge Dee	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_468c2a7a
Platonic Prostitution / int_46a4b34d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_46a4b34d	comment	Sparhawk uses the spying variation a few times in The Elenium. There's one particular girl he visits, who consistently tries to seduce him because she has a sense of professional integrity about her job.
Platonic Prostitution / int_46a4b34d	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_46a4b34d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elenium	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_46a4b34d
Platonic Prostitution / int_46f891d5	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_46f891d5	comment	In Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune, one of the prostitutes Eliza travels with has a client who visits her just to talk, because he likes her that much. They end up getting married. There's also a scene where Tao Chi'en visits a prostitute for information.
Platonic Prostitution / int_46f891d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_46f891d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Daughter Of Fortune	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_46f891d5
Platonic Prostitution / int_4a453e0d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_4a453e0d	comment	Used in the Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay movie. Kumar first hires some prostitutes (on Neil Patrick Harris's dime) for regular reasons, but ends up just spilling his guts about how much he misses his ex-girlfriend to them.
Platonic Prostitution / int_4a453e0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_4a453e0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_4a453e0d
Platonic Prostitution / int_4a48e278	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_4a48e278	comment	Horrific: In Terror Vision, Dr. Jordan hires a male prostitute to be the subject of his perception experiment. However, he soon becomes a Disposable Sex Worker.
Platonic Prostitution / int_4a48e278	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_4a48e278	featureConfidence	1.0
Horrific	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_4a48e278
Platonic Prostitution / int_4f7a49d9	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_4f7a49d9	comment	Attempted and questionably successful in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. At the Border Crossroads Inn, George and John need to get some information from a waitress. While she's not willing to go up to their room with them to have sex, she agrees to come when they explain they just want information and will even pay her. However, for a complicated reason, another woman is sent along with her, and the woman is a known tattler who will immediately report any shenanigans to the persons currently running the inn. So George has to have sex with the tattler to distract her, while John, who can't have sex with human women any more, has to fake it while he telepathically interrogates the waitress. Hilarity Ensues.
Platonic Prostitution / int_4f7a49d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_4f7a49d9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Keys Stand Alone (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_4f7a49d9
Platonic Prostitution / int_5015f4	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_5015f4	comment	In The Best of Times, Robin Williams hires a prostitute, to talk about the big game he blew in high school. She cuts him off when his credit card maxes out. (It wasn't the first time.)
Platonic Prostitution / int_5015f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_5015f4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Best of Times	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_5015f4
Platonic Prostitution / int_514489e5	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_514489e5	comment	In Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov visits Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sonya at first to voice his problems with the suffering she accepts as necessary and finally out of a need to verbally expunge himself of his murderous guilt
Platonic Prostitution / int_514489e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_514489e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Crime and Punishment	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_514489e5
Platonic Prostitution / int_51fbebc1	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_51fbebc1	comment	The protagonist of The Hills Run Red, in his quest to find a lost horror movie of the same title, sets out to speak to the director's daughter, seemingly the only person connected with the film who hasn't disappeared. He finds her working as a stripper, and gets a private dance from her so he can talk to her alone, but because the room is being watched through the security camera, she has to keep dancing.
Platonic Prostitution / int_51fbebc1	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Hills Run Red	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_51fbebc1
Platonic Prostitution / int_5261d625	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_5261d625	comment	In an episode of Samurai Champloo, The Stoic Jin falls for a girl when he sees her standing on a bridge and discourages her from jumping (characteristically enough, he does this by informing her that the water is too shallow and the drop too short — she'd most likely just wind up breaking a leg). He later finds out that she was contemplating suicide because she'd been sold to a whorehouse to cover her husband's gambling debts, and after shaking down Mugen for cash, he buys his way in to see her — in order to try and convince her to leave her husband and run away. They eventually do end up having sex, but only after it becomes clear that she's fallen for him as well.
Platonic Prostitution / int_5261d625	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_5261d625	featureConfidence	1.0
Samurai Champloo	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_5261d625
Platonic Prostitution / int_55f41ce9	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_55f41ce9	comment	In the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "The Car Pool Lane", Larry picks up a prostitute just so he can use the high-occupancy-vehicle lane to get to Dodger stadium in time for the game (being Larry, he then haggles over the amount she charges him based on the number of blowjobs he believes she could fit into the same amount of time).
Platonic Prostitution / int_55f41ce9	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_55f41ce9	featureConfidence	1.0
Curb Your Enthusiasm	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_55f41ce9
Platonic Prostitution / int_589cb8a	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_589cb8a	comment	Henri from Savage Messiah (1972) hires prostitutes both for the usual purpose and to serve as models for his art.
Platonic Prostitution / int_589cb8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_589cb8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Savage Messiah (1972)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_589cb8a
Platonic Prostitution / int_5921531c	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5: Sadayo Kawakami, one of Joker's potential NPC allies, moonlights as a "health delivery" girl, where she is basically paid to talk with clients with a stereotypical Meido personality, along with some actual maid services like cleaning and cooking. She does say that she offers "other" services, but as the PC is a minor (and her student!) she says he'll have to wait until he's older for those. It's never made explicitly clear if her services extend to prostitution, but it rubs shoulers with the industry either way to the point where the risk of her getting blackmailed is prevelant on top of her already being blackmailed for a separate incident. The blackmail becomes so much that she mentions that she might have to transfer to the maid service's sister company, implied to be straight up prostitution.
Platonic Prostitution / int_5921531c	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_5921531c	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona 5 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_5921531c
Platonic Prostitution / int_5dbd6bc5	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_5dbd6bc5	comment	In most versions of The Threepenny Opera (play, novel, films, etc.) Mack the Knife is seen visiting a brothel, but he mostly just chats with the prostitutes a bit and sings about the time he dated one of them. Several other men (in some versions prominent characters in the story) can be seen lounging around the brothel, reading the paper or getting a foot massage. Of course, it's still heavily implied that Mack has sex with the prostitutes, but Brecht's point was to show that the habit of visiting a brothel every week was a symbol of the decadence of the bourgeoisie, and therefore more condemnable than the actual sex act. Also, the prostitutes selling their own skin are meant to represent the result of a capitalist system in which, as Marx and Engels stated, the common worker is robbed of the ownership of his tools and forced to sell himself on a daily basis to fit into the fascist ideology or a two-class society.
Platonic Prostitution / int_5dbd6bc5	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Threepenny Opera (Theatre)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_5dbd6bc5
Platonic Prostitution / int_5dcdb826	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_5dcdb826	comment	Happens in Texhnolyze when Yoshii gets a prostitute who starts acting like a Dominatrix, he stops her and tells her he just wants to talk. We soon find out he killed her after getting information.
Platonic Prostitution / int_5dcdb826	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_5dcdb826	featureConfidence	1.0
Texhnolyze	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_5dcdb826
Platonic Prostitution / int_60f02ddb	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_60f02ddb	comment	A variation occurs on American Dad!, when Stan goes with his co-workers to a strip club despite being very uncomfortable. He winds up giving health advice to one of the strippers and hiring several of them to work at a laundromat he wanted to start up.
Platonic Prostitution / int_60f02ddb	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_60f02ddb	featureConfidence	1.0
American Dad!	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_60f02ddb
Platonic Prostitution / int_630755ab	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_630755ab	comment	In Codex Alera, Tavi is known to visit a whorehouse outside the army camp ... to get a hot bath all alone, his clothes washed, and check on his spy network. Which is implied to be why Kitai doesn't kill him for it.
Platonic Prostitution / int_630755ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_630755ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Codex Alera	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_630755ab
Platonic Prostitution / int_6895f35f	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_6895f35f	comment	Road to Perdition: One story has Michael O'Sullivan visiting an underage prostitute named Juana who he wants information from concerning his nemesis Connor Looney. For obvious reasons, he doesn't do anything with her, but instead gets the information that he needs from her and leaves her with enough money to leave if she wants to.
Platonic Prostitution / int_6895f35f	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_6895f35f	featureConfidence	1.0
RoadToPerdition	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_6895f35f
Platonic Prostitution / int_6b18e18f	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_6b18e18f	comment	Inverted on MA Nswers, where asking streetwalkers to do some paid nude modeling is suggested. The inversion is that it's a ploy to determine if they're undercover vice cops (who wouldn't accept such a legal proposition) before actually offering them money for sex.
Platonic Prostitution / int_6b18e18f	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_6b18e18f	featureConfidence	1.0
Manswers	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_6b18e18f
Platonic Prostitution / int_6c1d09b2	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_6c1d09b2	comment	Fallout 2 has the Cat's Paw brothel in the city of New Reno. While the main attraction is very much in line with what you'd expect, there is also something called the "Kesting Special" where the customer can just talk to the prostitutes. It actually gives the Player Character a temporary bonus to his or her speech skill, and the girls apparently provide great insight on human nature.
Platonic Prostitution / int_6c1d09b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_6c1d09b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_6c1d09b2
Platonic Prostitution / int_73d7930f	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Gul Dukat is shown doing this during the occupation, making Bajoran women sit and listen to him talk about how he's really a nice guy rather than a bloodthirsty Cardassian overlord.
Platonic Prostitution / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_73d7930f
Platonic Prostitution / int_75a502ab	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_75a502ab	comment	Leo the Last: When Salambo becomes a prostitute, Leo pays to have sex with her, then begs her to let him help her. He buys her from her family and moves her into his mansion so she can save herself for her boyfriend Roscoe, who is currently in jail. Salambo is very confused and wonders when they're going to have sex.
Platonic Prostitution / int_75a502ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_75a502ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Leo the Last	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_75a502ab
Platonic Prostitution / int_75f553ac	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_75f553ac	comment	The Deuce: An elderly client of Darlene's has her come over just to watch television in bed with him - no sex.
Platonic Prostitution / int_75f553ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_75f553ac	featureConfidence	1.0
The Deuce	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_75f553ac
Platonic Prostitution / int_7647201e	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_7647201e	comment	Two examples in Subnormality. In the first, the trope is played with (the "prostitute" in question seems to specifically cater to this type of customer) and played straight in the second.
Platonic Prostitution / int_7647201e	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_7647201e	featureConfidence	1.0
Subnormality (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_7647201e
Platonic Prostitution / int_76686539	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_76686539	comment	The Asari consort in Mass Effect notes that the services she and her acolytes provide aren't always sexual. Her reward to Shepard for helping her with a diplomatic tangle is a gift of words and a MacGuffin (OK, and an Optional Sexual Encounter if Shepard isn't satisfied). In fact her sexual offerings are rare enough to cause serious frustration to some of her customers, who end up actually falling in love to her (one-sidedly, of course). Sex is on the menu only if the Consort both considers her client in need of it and deserving of it.
Platonic Prostitution / int_76686539	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_76686539	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect (Video Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_76686539
Platonic Prostitution / int_7680545c	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_7680545c	comment	On an episode of The Nanny, Fran and Max are at the police station. While they're there, Niles pays a hooker who was there to pretend she was an old friend of C.C. (who he hates.)
Platonic Prostitution / int_7680545c	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_7680545c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Nanny	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_7680545c
Platonic Prostitution / int_769da46e	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_769da46e	comment	In Monstrous Regiment, a veteran Sweet Polly Oliver passes on the tip for a woman-playing-a-man-in-uniform to visit the camp followers every once in a while, just to keep up appearances. She says she always brought a book and told the other girl to take a well-earned break. It also mentions that the ladies in question are familiar with the type of customer who hires them to preach at them.
Platonic Prostitution / int_769da46e	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_769da46e	featureConfidence	1.0
Monstrous Regiment	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_769da46e
Platonic Prostitution / int_78b89075	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_78b89075	comment	In the God, the Devil and Bob episode "Bob's Father", Bob hires a prostitute in an effort to summon the Devil to take him to Hell. The two just sit around in a dingy apartment waiting, with her reading a magazine and charging him extra for him apparently wanting to bring someone else in. Bob eventually realizes that the Devil isn't interested in hanging out somewhere he's already corrupted, so he dismisses the prostitute and goes to a Habitat for Humanity site instead.
Platonic Prostitution / int_78b89075	featureApplicability	1.0
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God, the Devil and Bob	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_78b89075
Platonic Prostitution / int_7a380f3b	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_7a380f3b	comment	On General Hospital, Lucky hires a prostitute so that he can unleash his lustful feelings on her rather than on his girlfriend, who's recovering from a rape (and was a virgin before this) and is therefore uncomfortable about sex. He ends up changing his mind because he doesn't want to cheat on her and ends up confiding in the woman about his situation. The hooker in question fell into this role for several of the men on the show.
Platonic Prostitution / int_7a380f3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_7a380f3b	featureConfidence	1.0
General Hospital	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_7a380f3b
Platonic Prostitution / int_7b87c908	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_7b87c908	comment	In one episode of Hotel Babylon a man staying in the hotel hires some prostitutes to play Scrabble with.
Platonic Prostitution / int_7b87c908	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_7b87c908	featureConfidence	1.0
Hotel Babylon	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_7b87c908
Platonic Prostitution / int_7c6f5e19	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_7c6f5e19	comment	In a more family-friendly version, an episode of The Red Green Show revolved around a bachelor auction. After Harold gets picked and all the women leave, Dalton ends up buying both Winston and Mike for $10 to help him with some painting.
Platonic Prostitution / int_7c6f5e19	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_7c6f5e19	featureConfidence	1.0
The Red Green Show	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_7c6f5e19
Platonic Prostitution / int_7f39a041	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_7f39a041	comment	Gintoki in Gintama is maneuvered into this situation with Tsukuyo. (To make a long story short, he was promised free drinks.) Tsukuyo assumes that she's supposed to sleep with him to pay him for saving Yoshiwara. Gintoki is appalled at the suggestion. It would have been a nice, friendly evening after that except for Tsukuyo's alcohol intolerance and subsequent violent behaviour.
Platonic Prostitution / int_7f39a041	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_7f39a041	featureConfidence	1.0
Gintama (Manga)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_7f39a041
Platonic Prostitution / int_82439e64	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_82439e64	comment	They hired a stripper (not a hooker) for Bob Vance's bachelor party in The Office, but then she ended up doing office work after no-one wanted a lap dance.
Platonic Prostitution / int_82439e64	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_82439e64	featureConfidence	1.0
The Office (US)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_82439e64
Platonic Prostitution / int_85a246b3	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_85a246b3	comment	Titans (2018). In "Home", a guilt-ridden Jason Todd goes to a sex club and gets the working couple there, who are normally paid to have sex with the client watching from a booth, to pose as Dawn and Hank so he can apologise for killing the latter. The man refuses to play along and walks out, but the woman tries to give Jason some good advice before his time runs out.
Platonic Prostitution / int_85a246b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_85a246b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Titans (2018)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_85a246b3
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Platonic Prostitution / int_86772227	comment	Knights of the Dinner Table: Chad had a girlfriend whom he hadn't told about his roleplaying hobby out of fear of ridicule. But when Patty and the other members of his groups harp on him about telling her the truth, he finally relents and offers to invite her to a game. Instead, he hires an escort for an hour to show up and pretend that she's his girlfriend. Turns out that Trish loves roleplaying games and lets him have an extra forty-five minutes free before she gets called away. After she leaves, though, Patty lets Chad have it, having seen right through the charade (for one thing, her hair was the wrong color). In a follow-up strip, Tank ends up spending over two hundred dollars to have Trish on a date and play Battleship for a few hours.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_86db94a1	comment	While making Bloodrayne, Uwe Boll infamously hired actual Romanian prostitutes to play... well, prostitutes. Why? They were cheaper than hiring extras, who would have to be paid SAG minimum. Which is... unusually ingenious of him.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_87cc6185	comment	Johanna Mason: They Will Never See Me Cry: Plutarch and Fulvia purchase time with Finnick and Johanna as part of the victor prostitution ring, but don't have sex with them and covertly recruit them to the rebellion. Plutarch does have Johanna strip to her underwear, stand near the window, and then get in bed with him (while he remains clothed), but just to throw off any potential security agents watching the Capitol for signs of treason.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_880276e0	comment	In Taxi Driver, Travis hires an underage prostitute, Iris, but only because he wants to talk to her and convince her to give up that life.
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Taxi Driver	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_880276e0
Platonic Prostitution / int_88f11ba5	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_88f11ba5	comment	Dreamless: In this strip, Takashi is given a free night with a prostitute as a birthday present by his buddies. But instead he just goes to sleep to achieve onirical contact with the girl he loves. Later, Takashi tries going back to Maiko for relationship advice. Maiko rightly points out that Eleanor will be upset that he's visiting a prostitute, regardless of purpose.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_8ae8bad8	comment	Strong Medicine: Clinic receptionist Lana is stunned to see a local minister approaching a prostitute and handing her money before they walk off together. She confronts him when he shows up at the hospital with another hooker, only for him to explain that he's counseling these girls and gives them money so that they aren't anxious about losing income in the time they spend talking to him.
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Strong Medicine	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_8ae8bad8
Platonic Prostitution / int_8b483877	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_8b483877	comment	This is the only trope played completely straight (the premise, even) in the Deuce Bigalow movies. The titular Deuce was prostituted by a pimp to pay for a very expensive aquarium he broke in the first film, and to help lure out a serial killer that was killing male prostitutes in the second film. He does not have sex with the women who hire him, instead he talks with them and offers emotional support and helps them solve their problems. The only time he has sex with anyone is with his love interest at the end of each film.
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Deuce Bigalow	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_8b483877
Platonic Prostitution / int_8c9f7023	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_8c9f7023	comment	Sort of happens in Eyes Wide Shut. Bill wants to sleep with the prostitute, but his wife calls him and he has to leave. He pays the hooker anyway.
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Eyes Wide Shut	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_8c9f7023
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Platonic Prostitution / int_8ce76aec	comment	In Three Seasons, a bicycle cab driver in Vietnam uses the money he won in a race to spend the night with a prostitute he has a crush on, but all he does is watch her sleep.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_8d4db1f8	comment	Cheating Death: Those That Lived: A variant occasionally occurs when Finnick gets pumped out. A very, very small number of the people who purchase him from Snow merely want to be seen in his presence and kiss him (and one teenager is too shy to even do that) and don't make him have sex with them.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_8d817ccb	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_8d817ccb	comment	In a flashback from the fourth episode of Lost, John Locke converses with a phone sex operator as if they share a relationship. He tries to get her to accompany him to Australia but she completely dismisses him as merely a customer. Later revelations about Locke's character make it seem like he was looking for a Replacement Goldfish for ex-girlfriend Helen.
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Lost	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_8d817ccb
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Platonic Prostitution / int_8d81bb26	comment	In the NCIS episode "Guilty Pleasure", the Victim of the Week is backtracked to a motel in which he'd been having a regular liaison with a call girl. Turned out he was a reporter working on a story about prostitution, and she was just one of his sources. Made funnier by the fact that they first hear this from the man's wife, whom they assume is kidding herself. Then they learn that that actually is what he was doing. In the Back Door Pilot for NCIS: New Orleans, Gibbs and Pride interview a prostitute who was the last person seen with the murder victim. She claims that they talked for a while. When an obviously skeptical Gibbs asks if that's all they did, she replies, "Sometimes talking's all they want to do."
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NCIS	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_8d81bb26
Platonic Prostitution / int_8dfbdff2	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_8dfbdff2	comment	When detectives in the various Law & Order series need to talk to hookers, they're generally nice enough to pay the girls for their time.
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Law & Order	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_8dfbdff2
Platonic Prostitution / int_8ecb86b	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_8ecb86b	comment	In Redeeming Love, Michael spends all of his savings this way in order to get the townâ€™s most sought-after "soiled dove," Angel, alone long enough to propose marriage to her. Repeatedly. All of his visits are rather awkward and vitriolic, since Angel is definitely not a Hooker with a Heart of Gold. (He is ultimately successful in marrying her, but not via this trope.)
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Platonic Prostitution / int_90e2f673	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_90e2f673	comment	Seen in the BattleTech novel Close Quarters. Cassie Suthorn, properly paranoid scout for the mercenary regiment Camacho's Caballeros with some deep-seated psychological issues of her own, is looking for information for anything suspicious that might be going on around the city where their latest employer is paying them to stay and among other things ends up chatting amiably enough with a trio of prostitutes she's paid the going rate for their time. Then their pimp shows up, takes exception, and generally makes an ass of himself...so she kills him and takes over his job, at least temporarily. (The women aren't then actually seen again for the rest of the book, but her comrades don't miss the opportunity to comment on it.)
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BattleTech (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_90e2f673
Platonic Prostitution / int_924bb56e	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_924bb56e	comment	Dollhouse is largely similar to this trope: the Dolls are often imprinted for sex, but can take on any number of legal or illegal jobs, and even romantic engagements can be about more than sex or no sex at all (for example, Joel Maynard having Echo imprinted with his dead wife, or another man getting his dead wife imprinted to help him take care of the couple's baby). Lampshaded when Topher imprints Sierra for his birthday. He doesn't want her for sex, he just wants a friend to help him celebrate.
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Dollhouse	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_924bb56e
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Platonic Prostitution / int_92a56bcb	comment	In the Masters of Horror episode "Imprint", Christopher hires the disfigured prostitute for the night to learn more about what happened to Komomo, not to sleep with her. He makes it clear that her face doesn't frighten him, but he turns her down when he discovers that Komomo has recently died and is too distraught about it.
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Masters of Horror	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_92a56bcb
Platonic Prostitution / int_9353169	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_9353169	comment	Angels 2200: There is a male-featured Sex Bot for the all-female crew's use, but nobody ever uses him for his intended purpose, because he's viewed as a communal dildo. Most of his sex-related programming was replaced with other ways for him to help the crew.
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Angels 2200 (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_9353169
Platonic Prostitution / int_941d5784	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_941d5784	comment	In Strong Female Protagonist, a lonely supervillain fulfills his need for human contact without forming personal relationships by hiring sex workers to perform non-sexual acts of phsyical affection such as backrubs.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Conversed in Dishonored during a mission that takes place in a brothel. The player can overhear a conversation between a prostitute and the madam about how one of the clients regularly pays big money for one of the highest class girls but never has sex with her. The madam says that it just happens sometimes and agrees that it's odd, but figures that some men just really enjoy the company and it's not her business what clients choose to spend their money on as long as the girls aren't hurt. In the same mission, you're pursuing the twins Custis and Morgan Pendleton, two targets who are attending the brothel. While they are both hedonists, Custis is more interested in companionship and political gossip (and is apparently notorious for "unusual requests"), while Morgan is entirely depraved. The madam gets the twins mixed up in one permutation of the level — She presumes the one taking the soundproof ivory room is Morgan, while Custis is relaxing in the smoking room. In truth, Custis is using the ivory room to speak openly about sensitive politics, while Morgan just wanted to smoke during the act. Alternatively, Custis can be located in the basement steam room, again indulging in gossip with one of the escorts.
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Dishonored (Video Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_95bd5a8e
Platonic Prostitution / int_9a0712b0	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_9a0712b0	comment	In Ino-Head Gargoyle, when Saejima's feeling really depressed, he calls up his regular, the "Little Grey Alien", just to hug and comfort him.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_9d47a2a2	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: One of Daenerys' eunuch soldiers is murdered while on his way to a brothel. When she wonders aloud what use a eunuch would have for a brothel, her captain responds that "even those who lack a man's parts may still have a man's heart" — the eunuch paid the women to "lay with him and hold him." It's something of a Tear Jerker. After Tywin explicitly tells Tyrion he can't bring Shae to court, Tyrion keeps her safe in an undisclosed location that can be reached via a tunnel connected to a brothel. Tyrion visits Alayaya, the prostitute whose room connects to one end of the tunnel, pretending to stay the night but instead sneaking off to be with Shae. Alayaya says she likes the alone time a lot and has been using it to teach herself to read. Of course, Cersei then has her whipped because she fell for the bait.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_9e876c22	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_9e876c22	comment	A minor character in Good Omens is Madame Tracy, a middle-aged prostitute and part-time medium "whose gentlemen callers called as much for a cup of tea and a nice chat as for what little discipline she was able to extract."
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Platonic Prostitution / int_9ed8d169	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_9ed8d169	comment	The Wolf Den Trilogy: Pliny the Elder hires Amara for a week. Rather than sleep with her, he asks her to read to him while he takes notes and otherwise treats her as a guest.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_a13a0bb0	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_a13a0bb0	comment	Nina, the Heartrender, in Six of Crows works in a brothel in Ketterdam... in order to help people suffering from strong grief or other troubles, as she is able to somewhat influence their emotions. She doesn't even keep a bed in her room, as she doesn't want men to "get ideas".
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Six of Crows	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_a13a0bb0
Platonic Prostitution / int_a144cb39	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_a144cb39	comment	Inverted in Moral Orel. Orel creates a service setting up appointments for the people of Moralton to witness to sinners. Most of the sinners are prostitutes, most of his customers are men, and Orel never realizes that very little witnessing is really going on.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_a2c37f38	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_a2c37f38	comment	In Planescape: Torment, "The Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts" caters specifically to this sort of customer. This is very fortunate for The Nameless One, what with his fetish for talking everyone's ears off. Morte, the floating skull, can trade insults with one of the prostitutes (it makes his combat taunt ability more powerful). He would LIKE to do more, but having a lack of body means all he gets is buffed (no, literally just polished) and a kiss.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_a94fc74e	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_a94fc74e	comment	Lethal Weapon: Martin Riggs does this once. After a conventional "john picks up hooker" scene, they watch The Three Stooges.
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Lethal Weapon	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_a94fc74e
Platonic Prostitution / int_aa5b7cc2	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	The NSFW Oglaf strip Babes of the Abyss starts with a nerd who makes a Deal with the Devil to have sex with demon girls, and is told that the price is to be turned into a devil girl when he dies to have sex with nerds like him. After the nerd realizes that the devil girls are former nerds, he invites them to paint miniatures, and they all have nerdy fun together. One of the devil girls comments on how much of an Unishment it all feels like.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_ab1b9a46	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ab1b9a46	comment	In the Bill Murray movie What About Bob?, Murray's character hires a hooker to telephone his psychiatrist's answering service and pretend to be the psychiatrist's sister.
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What About Bob?	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ab1b9a46
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Platonic Prostitution / int_ab3a6a48	comment	In Heavy Rain, the first time we see Scott Shelby is when he pays a prostitute so he can ask her about the Origami Killer (although, at one point, it does seem like he's there for some non-Platonic Prostitution).
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Heavy Rain (Video Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ab3a6a48
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Platonic Prostitution / int_abe51d98	comment	Real person Dave Attell did exactly this a couple times on Insomniac with Dave Attell. Not "prostitutes" technically, for obvious legal reasons, but escort girls. Much fun was had listening to them explain in graphic detail just how little shade of difference there was between the two, if any. He would then pay them to join him for some completely wholesome activity like bowling. Bowling while sloppy drunk at 3AM, but wholesome all the same.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_ad7edd1f	comment	In French series Kaamelott (episode "L'HabituÃ©" — "The Usual Customer"), we find that Perceval has been seeing the same prostitute for a long time now. What we hear him tell the prostitute is positive.
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Kaamelott	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ad7edd1f
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Platonic Prostitution / int_ae01886	comment	Looming Gaia: Skel visits a goblin bar wench once a month and pays him to pretend to be his slave, but in a completely non-sexual way. He tells him to do things like spin in circles and stand on his head, much like Jasenia and the Barhatian royals once did to him when he was their slave.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b0666b59	comment	The Neverwinter Nights games both feature the "Moonstone Mask" brothel, which was frequently emphasised not to sell sex, but "privacy", whatever that meant to the particular client. It might have entailed the usual stuff, but it might just as well have entailed anything else one does in a quiet environment, from massages to board games to a casual conversation. The mistress emphasizes that what your money buys you there is time with one of the employees, and anything more than that is a matter of negotiation between the client and the employee.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b0e165a7	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: "Emotional Stripper": "If you give me dollars, I'll bare my inner feelings." "Hey There": "I'm a reverse prostitute. My default behavior is to attempt to have sex with you. You pay for the opportunity to turn me down."
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b0e165a7
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b0fc9724	comment	A skit on Saturday Night Live has Alec Baldwin appearing to be one of these (even orchestrating a telephone reunion with her estranged mother), until he asked for a handjob, explaining that he "gets off" on getting personal with prostitutes.
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Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b0fc9724
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Due to being an Unsullied and therefore a eunuch, White Rat visits a prostitute only to be held and gently sung to sleep.
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Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b30ae4db
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b36a2228	comment	Enjo: Late in the film when his mental state is going downhill, Goichi visits a hooker in a brothel. All they do is talk for a while, with Goichi saying how lonely he is.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b39abbac	comment	In the Blood Bond, Blood Omen Series, one of Kim's previous incarnations would hire prostitutes to enhance her Sweet Polly Oliver disguise, then just sit with them for a while. The prostitutes were used to dealing with shy young boys trying to prove something (which she appeared to be), so they didn't mind, and few figured out what was really going on. In the modern era, Justine Flanner is fleeing from a secret base that was destroyed by an Unshaper attack, and ends up taking shelter in a Nevada brothel.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b55a60	comment	In Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, pious Henry Rackham visits the prostitute Caroline and just talks with her, much to her surprise. His motives are not altogether chaste, but he's so psychologically and sexually inhibited (and completely devoted to Mrs. Fox) that there is no chance he would ever solicit Caroline's services in earnest.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b660ef40	comment	In Dasepo Sonyo, Poor Girl's attempts to sell herself usually result in this. His first client is more interested in having someone to play videogames with, while Big Razor Sis only wants someone with whom she can be herself.
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Dasepo Sonyo	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b660ef40
Platonic Prostitution / int_b6b24d18	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_b6b24d18	comment	In The IT Crowd, Moss accidentally tells a crowd of people about how he and his fellow Heterosexual Life Partner ended up picking up some prostitutes but were too nervous to do anything with them. So they ended up going to a fairground. The end credits for the episode feature a slideshow of photos of all four at said fairground.
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The IT Crowd	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b6b24d18
Platonic Prostitution / int_b84de4b4	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_b84de4b4	comment	In Breakfast on Pluto, Kitten has a client at a peep show who doesn't want her to act sexual, but instead only wants to talk. Said client is Father Liam, who came to confess to her that he was her father, and to give her her long-lost mother's address.
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Breakfast on Pluto	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b84de4b4
Platonic Prostitution / int_b86b5220	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_b86b5220	comment	In Spartacus: Blood and Sand, the one time Spartacus actually requests the company of Mira (who's technically a slave, but one of those who are apparently lent periodically to Batiatus's gladiators as a reward), it's so he can talk her into helping with one of his schemes. They kiss passionately just long enough for the guard to leave. Mira, who is in love with him, only agrees to help him (which will put her at great risk) if he sleeps with her.
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Platonic Prostitution / int_b86b5220	featureConfidence	1.0
Spartacus: Blood and Sand	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b86b5220
Platonic Prostitution / int_b96adef8	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_b96adef8	comment	On Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Horace the Western Union Man was in love with Myra, one of the prostitutes at the local saloon, and she with him. He paid the saloon owner to spend time with her, and they just talked. After she left the biz, they got married.
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b96adef8
Platonic Prostitution / int_b9bb4183	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_b9bb4183	comment	Chloe: Initially, Catherine pays Chloe just to meet her husband at a cafe and see if he flirts with her. Later subverted, however it turns out Chloe's lying about having sex with him.
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Chloe	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b9bb4183
Platonic Prostitution / int_b9e56474	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_b9e56474	comment	In a fourth season episode of Californication: Hank asks Trixie (a call girl he was friendly with) if he could just pay her to be nice to him for a little while. He then apparently falls asleep with his head in her lap while she strokes his hair. When he wakes up, he finds that she's gone and had left the money he gave her behind.
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Californication	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_b9e56474
Platonic Prostitution / int_ba2df16b	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ba2df16b	comment	In Klute, one of call girl Bree Daniels' regular clients is an old man, who just wants companionship from her.
Platonic Prostitution / int_ba2df16b	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_ba2df16b	featureConfidence	1.0
Klute	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ba2df16b
Platonic Prostitution / int_bac8d0b6	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_bac8d0b6	comment	The Menu: Margot/Erin turns out to be a High-Class Call Girl whom Tyler hired so that he could keep his reservation at Hawthorne after his girlfriend broke up with him — even though he knew that the visit would end with the deaths of everyone involved. She's rightfully pissed about this.
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The Menu	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_bac8d0b6
Platonic Prostitution / int_bc22f487	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_bc22f487	comment	In Henry & Verlin, Henry goes to the prostitute Mabel for foot massages.
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Henry And Verlin	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_bc22f487
Platonic Prostitution / int_bee47cbe	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: Duane spends his time at the Nevergreen (if an entire circus accidentally got everyone in the brothel pregnant, this would be the result) reading scripture to the prostitutes, boring them into leaving or falling asleep. One of them complains to the madam about his â€œunnaturalâ€� tastes. Seeing as he's a reluctant and deeply religious lich, this is well-needed therapy to him. He's not even moralizing about their profession or anything, he just likes the prose.
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Unsounded (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_bee47cbe
Platonic Prostitution / int_bef18d87	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_bef18d87	comment	In Balls of Fury, Randy Daytona is given a courtesan of pleasure with which to spend the night, but all they do is play Boggle. The main reason why he restrains himself is that the 'courtesan' is Diedrich Bader.
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Balls of Fury	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_bef18d87
Platonic Prostitution / int_bf3a0285	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_bf3a0285	comment	In the Without a Trace episode "Where and Why" (a crossover with CSI), the kidnapper hires a prostitute to help pacify his son by doing domestic things like making them sandwiches.
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Without a Trace	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_bf3a0285
Platonic Prostitution / int_c0da5437	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_c0da5437	comment	The Punisher: While spying on a target in The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank story arc, The Punisher paid a prostitute two hundred dollars to eat lunch with him at the restaurant and forget the entire thing — he would have been too obvious if he had been there alone.
Platonic Prostitution / int_c0da5437	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_c0da5437	featureConfidence	1.0
The Punisher (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_c0da5437
Platonic Prostitution / int_c19424b6	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_c19424b6	comment	Brilliantly parodied and subverted in an episode of Black Adder, when Blackadder tries to pimp Baldrick out to sailors on the docks for money to pay off a Loan Shark. They are approached by a very large, very gruff sailor, who, it turns out, wants them to kiss him goodnight and read him a bedtime story, because he's missing his mother. Blackadder and Baldrick fulfill this innocent request, which he follows by asking...
Platonic Prostitution / int_c19424b6	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Blackadder	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_c19424b6
Platonic Prostitution / int_c1bf1af4	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_c1bf1af4	comment	While normally averted with Charlie on Two and a Half Men, right after he got out of his long term relationship with Chelsea, all he wants from his prostitute is for her to read a magazine and make small talk. He even outright rejects sex.
Platonic Prostitution / int_c1bf1af4	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Two and a Half Men	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_c1bf1af4
Platonic Prostitution / int_c5b9137b	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_c5b9137b	comment	In Dark City, J. Murdoch has lost his memory, and the only evidence of his past that he can find suggests that he was a serial killer who targeted prostitutes. He's convinced that this can't be true, so he goes home with a streetwalker, and only hangs around long enough to prove to himself that he doesn't feel any urge to kill.
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Dark City	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_c5b9137b
Platonic Prostitution / int_c715f539	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_c715f539	comment	This happens in Lord John and the Private Matter, a spinoff of the Outlander series. Lord John patronizes a prostitute, but not for her services. He wants information about one of the whorehouse's clients. Besides, he doesn't swing that way. He considers it for a minute, though, since the Scottish hooker's accent reminds him of someone else...
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Outlander	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_c715f539
Platonic Prostitution / int_ca07828e	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ca07828e	comment	Occurs at one time in The Unit with Jonas Blaine merely talking to a prostitute. Whatever the team do on missions — they do not cheat on their wives.
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The Unit	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ca07828e
Platonic Prostitution / int_ccf875f7	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ccf875f7	comment	On Criminal Minds, it's not unheard of for serial killers to hire prostitutes to serve as their victims. In some cases, it's because the unsub has a problem with prostitution (and is trying to either punish or "purify" the prostitutes). Other times, it's just because prostitutes are easy to get alone and vulnerable. They're considered High Risk targets for that reason. Of course, some don't even bother with the "hiring" part.
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Criminal Minds	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ccf875f7
Platonic Prostitution / int_cdae54af	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_cdae54af	comment	In Sourcery, Seriph Creosote of Al-Khali doesn't do much with the women in his seraglio but have them tell him stories and use them as an audience for his dreadful poetry.
Platonic Prostitution / int_cdae54af	featureApplicability	1.0
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Sourcery	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_cdae54af
Platonic Prostitution / int_ce15336	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ce15336	comment	Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye does this, sort of. He hires her for sex, but gets uncomfortable and ends up turning her down.
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The Catcher in the Rye	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ce15336
Platonic Prostitution / int_ced066dc	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ced066dc	comment	iCarly (2021): Played for Laughs in the episode "iGot Your Back". Spencer tries to set Freddie up on a date with a friend of his. But when the friend cancels at the last minute, Spencer hires a prostitute (he thinks she's an actress at first until Carly sets him straight.) to pretend to be her. Although Freddie goes on multiple dates with her, with each date costing Spencer more and more money, the two never have sex nor does Freddie find out that she was a prostitute.
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iCarly (2021)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ced066dc
Platonic Prostitution / int_cfc77a15	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_cfc77a15	comment	The ABCs of Death: In the "P" segment, the john hires the main character to crush a kitten beneath her high heel shoes while he films it. None of the other hookers he approaches will touch the job.
Platonic Prostitution / int_cfc77a15	featureApplicability	1.0
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The ABCs of Death	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_cfc77a15
Platonic Prostitution / int_d4fdfff4	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_d4fdfff4	comment	Inverted on ER, when Dr. Kovac is heard talking to someone extensively, ostensibly a therapist, about his depression and loneliness, but as the scene concludes, it's obvious that the woman is in fact an escort. Although the scene ends with them starting to have sex, an alternate version did in fact have them continuing to talk as the evening progressed.
Platonic Prostitution / int_d4fdfff4	featureApplicability	1.0
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ER	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_d4fdfff4
Platonic Prostitution / int_d52ea5cc	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_d52ea5cc	comment	Marina in Pericles sort of enforces this on her clients. They come in intending to pay for sex, and leave talking about going to church. She's so good at converting the clients (and thereby staying a virgin) that she bankrupts the brothel.
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Pericles	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_d52ea5cc
Platonic Prostitution / int_d62bbf7a	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_d62bbf7a	comment	In Assassin's Creed II, it's possible to hire prostitutes to distract guards.
Platonic Prostitution / int_d62bbf7a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_d62bbf7a
Platonic Prostitution / int_d72face7	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_d72face7	comment	In The World According to Garp, Jenny has a feminist discussion with a prostitute, and pays her for her time.
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The World According to Garp	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_d72face7
Platonic Prostitution / int_d7626bdd	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_d7626bdd	comment	Deadpool: Wade initially hires Vanessa to "put balls in holes," aka play Skee-Ball at an arcade. At the end of the night, he cashes in his tickets for a Voltron ring that he then trades to Vanessa for another few minutes... wherein they do have sex.
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Deadpool (2016)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_d7626bdd
Platonic Prostitution / int_d7765410	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_d7765410	comment	At one point in "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe" Ford Prefect is approached in the street by a girl who asks him if he's rich and says she provides special services to rich people. While Ford initially assumes the obvious, she clarifies that she "explains to them that it's okay to be rich". Apparently she has multiple degrees in economic theory but they can't get her a regular job. When Ford leaves later, she's in a client's car, explaining basic financial models.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_d7765410
Platonic Prostitution / int_d8bda674	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_d8bda674	comment	X1999: Seiichirou Aoki met Karen Kasumi during her workshift. Rather than asking for erotic service, he interviews her. They become good friends afterwards. At the end of the anime, Seiichirou visits Karen's grave together with his family.
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X/1999 (Manga)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_d8bda674
Platonic Prostitution / int_da861da1	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_da861da1	comment	On Veronica Mars, Keith goes to see a prostitute, but to get her to provide an alibi for Abel Koontz that he was 'elsewhere' on the night of Lily Kane's murder.
Platonic Prostitution / int_da861da1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Veronica Mars	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_da861da1
Platonic Prostitution / int_dac7c837	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_dac7c837	comment	In the first novel of A Wizard in Rhyme, two of the supporting characters are a wayward priest and a local whore who is secretly a sex-powered witch. Everyone in the village knows the priest is sneaking off to the brothel, so there's a series of reveals around the fact that it's platonic, and why: 1) He's too devout and has barely started to touch her when guilt sets in; 2) he spends a lot of time trying to convince her to abandon her ways, with some success; and 3) they are both in love with each other. Oh, and, 4) He's a werewolf, but this is somewhat unrelated.
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A Wizard in Rhyme	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_dac7c837
Platonic Prostitution / int_db0d488	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_db0d488	comment	Ichimatsu from Samurai Gun is one of these. To the frustration of the lady, since she's in love with him and would actually like to sleep with him, especially after he rescues her from the whorehouse and gets her a proper job.
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Samurai Gun (Manga)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_db0d488
Platonic Prostitution / int_dd246c83	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_dd246c83	comment	In Madam Secretary season 2, Dmitri Petrov, Henry's mole in the Russian Army, hires a prostitute so he can use her room as cover to send information to Henry. The prostitute is actually pretty sympathetic.
Platonic Prostitution / int_dd246c83	featureApplicability	1.0
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Madam Secretary	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_dd246c83
Platonic Prostitution / int_ddd4b174	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ddd4b174	comment	Travel writer Tim Moore did a Monopoly board tour of London for the book Do Not Pass Go, looking into the history and character of the places used in the standard UK version of the game. At his first stop, King's Cross station, he experiences the area's seedy underbelly by hiring a Brazilian transgender person to play a game of Monopoly.
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Monopoly (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ddd4b174
Platonic Prostitution / int_e2d4248a	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_e2d4248a	comment	The film version of Perfume has Grenouille hire a prostitute when he is testing if he can capture the scent of a human being by enfleurage. When she finds it creepy that all he wants to do is wrap her up in lard-covered bandages, she attempts to leave but he kills her to continue his experiment.
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Perfume	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_e2d4248a
Platonic Prostitution / int_e356cbe8	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_e356cbe8	comment	Shoot 'Em Up features a prostitute hired by the main protagonist to nurse a baby. The "platonic" part is dropped after they have sex (without him paying her) and before that it's clear they have a mutual attraction to each other.
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Shoot 'Em Up	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_e356cbe8
Platonic Prostitution / int_e3c4fe80	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_e3c4fe80	comment	In RPG World, Hero "hired" Diane because he had no idea what she was offering. He thought she was an adventurer looking to fight monsters. Turns out that it was all for the best regarding both characters.
Platonic Prostitution / int_e3c4fe80	featureApplicability	1.0
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RPG World (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_e3c4fe80
Platonic Prostitution / int_e5fd2cef	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_e5fd2cef	comment	In Gray Lensman, it's implied that the hostesses at the space-dive Kinnison is infiltrating are prostitutes. Asteroid miner "Wild Bill" (Kinnison) pays them well... to dance with him while he's on his drunken bender.
Platonic Prostitution / int_e5fd2cef	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lensman	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_e5fd2cef
Platonic Prostitution / int_e7e37776	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly Inara isn't just a prostitute, though sex is usually included as part of the "Companion" package. Nevertheless a few clients (like Atherton Wing) hire her for a primary role other than sex (though it was implied that sex was in the offing, at least before Mal went and got himself into a duel with Atherton). In "Jaynestown", a governor hires Inara to "make a man" out of his son. Being more simple than her usual clientele, he gets angry when she doesn't immediately sleep with the boy but starts with a tea ceremony and a conversation. She does sleep with the son eventually but only because she happens to like him. The Companions only accept offers from people they like. The show portrays a clear distinction between Companions (basically, a courtesan with a high social status) and regular prostitutes. In "Heart of Gold", a local ruler's primary use for a prostitute is to conceive a male heir. Even his wife is relieved upon hearing the news that the girl is pregnant with her husband's son.
Platonic Prostitution / int_e7e37776	featureApplicability	1.0
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Firefly	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_e7e37776
Platonic Prostitution / int_ea4f62db	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In one musical number, Brian tells the shut-in Pearl just what she missed in the thirty or so years she's lived alone. In explaining how Las Vegas became more family friendly, we see a man pay a prostitute, who goes down on her knees to give lollipops to the man's two children. In another episode, Peter and his friends hire a prostitutes to tend goal as they kick soccer balls her way. When she asks if they can switch positions, Peter states that since they hired her, she has to play goalie the whole night.
Platonic Prostitution / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Guy	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ea4f62db
Platonic Prostitution / int_eb3f769d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_eb3f769d	comment	Stephen Maturin of the Aubrey-Maturin book series routinely stays at brothels when on expedition to distant cities, only as lodging. It is cheaper and less conspicuous than a boarding-house, and (more importantly) it allows him to meet with and question sailors from Spain and France for his espionage work. Since he also routinely runs into sailors from his own ship, however, stories have spread among Aubrey's crew about his surprising wealth in being able to whore and drink night after night on shore.
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Aubrey-Maturin	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_eb3f769d
Platonic Prostitution / int_edbc9738	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_edbc9738	comment	Transmetropolitan: The series has a rather strange but heartbreaking example. Spider solicits two young boys who are prostituting themselves on the street, paying them with food for an interview about their "business". The heartbreaking part comes in when one of the boys asks if they can go to a restaurant that has toys.
Platonic Prostitution / int_edbc9738	featureApplicability	1.0
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_edbc9738
Platonic Prostitution / int_ef3e1baa	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_ef3e1baa	comment	In Girl House Loverboy buys private cam time with Kylie but only wants to get to know her
Platonic Prostitution / int_ef3e1baa	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_ef3e1baa	featureConfidence	1.0
girlhouse	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_ef3e1baa
Platonic Prostitution / int_f15f622e	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_f15f622e	comment	In the MacGyver episode "The Assassin", the eponymous assassin would hire call-girls to do small errands for him, such as picking up a suitcase in the park. He would later kill them.
Platonic Prostitution / int_f15f622e	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_f15f622e	featureConfidence	1.0
MacGyver (1985)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_f15f622e
Platonic Prostitution / int_f17eb992	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_f17eb992	comment	In Lynn Flewelling's TamÃr Triad, on Tobin's birthday his cousin Prince Korin insists on paying for a prostitute so Tobin can lose his virginity. Tobin, who is not all that into women, ends up bouncing on the bed with the prostitute, moaning and shouting "Yes!" for the benefit of Korin in the next room.
Platonic Prostitution / int_f17eb992	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_f17eb992	featureConfidence	1.0
Tamir Triad	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_f17eb992
Platonic Prostitution / int_f61ea51b	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): While alive, Louis de Pointe du Lac regularly employed the services of a high-class prostitute named Lily so he could be seen having a relationship with a woman. Once in her room, though, he just talked to her, using her as some kind of a therapy session. However, when the two are alone with Lestat de Lioncourt in his living room, Lily does give Louis fellatio until Lestat makes her go to sleep.
Platonic Prostitution / int_f61ea51b	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_f61ea51b	featureConfidence	1.0
Interview with the Vampire (2022)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_f61ea51b
Platonic Prostitution / int_f71897ca	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_f71897ca	comment	My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To: Dwight has sex with Pam, but he primarily seems to be paying her so that heâ€™ll have someone to talk to outside his family. That sharpens the sting when Jessie kills Pam to feed Thomas and snaps out her gold tooth.
Platonic Prostitution / int_f71897ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_f71897ca	featureConfidence	1.0
My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_f71897ca
Platonic Prostitution / int_faf84cd	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_faf84cd	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: Not prostitution per se, but David Hatter is a regular at Velvet Velour's strip club, where he mostly just talks to the dancers about his stories and his dream of becoming a professional writer. Zig-zagged since he does hire a local escort for unspecified services involving Noodle Implements.
Platonic Prostitution / int_faf84cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_faf84cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Video Game)	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_faf84cd
Platonic Prostitution / int_fcf34eec	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_fcf34eec	comment	Near the end of Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid, SÅ�suke is approached by a prostitute who looks almost exactly like Kaname. Since he's deep in the throes of a Heroic BSoD, he lets her pick him up as a client, but he's only really interested in talking through some of what's on his mind. When she tries to initiate sex with him, he freaks out and leaves.
Platonic Prostitution / int_fcf34eec	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_fcf34eec	featureConfidence	1.0
Full Metal Panic!	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_fcf34eec
Platonic Prostitution / int_fe5f7909	type	Platonic Prostitution
Platonic Prostitution / int_fe5f7909	comment	In Guards! Guards!, Carrot is offered a place to stay at Mrs. Palm's house of very good repute after he rescues one of her â€œdaughtersâ€�, Reet. As he writes back to his parents, Reet woke him up during the night to ask him if there was anything he wanted, but they didn't have any apples. So he stays. And pays for the first month up front. Because he thinks it's a boarding house. Many people are surprised and rather impressed to learn that he stays there every night. Carrot ended up being an unwitting bouncer when "The daughter's unruly gentlemen callers" get too rough.
Platonic Prostitution / int_fe5f7909	featureApplicability	1.0
Platonic Prostitution / int_fe5f7909	featureConfidence	1.0
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_fe5f7909

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Platonic Prostitution	processingCategory2	Friendship Tropes
Platonic Prostitution	processingCategory2	The Oldest Profession
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Texhnolyze / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Red Ears (Comic Book) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Knights of the Dinner Table (Comic Strip) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
From Hell / Comicbook / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters (Fanfic) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Chloe / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Dasepo Sonyo / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Deuce Bigalow / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Enjo / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Frankie & Johnny / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
girlhouse / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Irma la Douce / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Jeune & jolie / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Klute / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Lethal Weapon (1987) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Lévy and Goliath / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Memento / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Mr. Turner / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Olsen-banden / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Paris, 13th District / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Paris, Texas / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Porky's / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Pretty Baby / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Safe (2012) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Savage Messiah (1972) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Shame / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Shoot 'Em Up / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Taxi Driver / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The ABCs of Death / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Best of Youth / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Big Short / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Book of Eli / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Killing of John Lennon / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Machinist / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The World of Suzie Wong / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Unforgiven / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Young & Beautiful / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Full Metal Panic! / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Asian Saga / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Bloody Jack / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Brig Scarlet Flamingo / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Crime and Punishment / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Doctrine of Labyrinths / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Full Metal Panic! / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Gentleman Bastard / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Guards! Guards! / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Harrison Bergeron / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Judge Dee / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Kroniki Drugiego Kręgu / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Kushiel's Legacy / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Mission Earth / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Monstrous Regiment / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Redeeming Love / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Catcher in the Rye / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Confusions of Young Törless / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Elenium / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Kept Man of the Princess Knight / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Kiss Quotient / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Liar (novel) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Painter from Shanghai / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Sun Also Rises / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Wolf Den Trilogy / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Volle / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
HookerVerse	seeAlso	Platonic Prostitution
Blade of the Immortal (Manga) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Gintama (Manga) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Ino-Head Gargoyle (Manga) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Jin (Manga) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (Manga) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
AquÃ no hay quien viva / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Baptiste / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Behzat Ç / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Borgen / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Curb Your Enthusiasm / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Harlots / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Insomniac with Dave Attell / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Interview with the Vampire (2022) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Kaamelott / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Lexx / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Masada / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Nathan for You / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Neighbours / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Pose / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Ripper Street / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Snowpiercer / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Bill / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The IT Crowd / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Dust: A Tale of the Wired West (Video Game) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
KGB (Video Game) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Neverwinter Nights (Video Game) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Video Game) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Rebuild (Video Game) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Jerkcity (Webcomic) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
A Softer World (Webcomic) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Angels 2200 (Webcomic) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Get Medieval (Webcomic) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Strong Female Protagonist (Webcomic) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Subnormality (Webcomic) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Unsounded (Webcomic) / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution

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