Female sex workers in SF

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  • Aldiss, Brian W. "Lambeth Blossom" in Strange Bedfellows: Sex and Science Fiction, edited by Thomas N. Scortia (1972). © 1967.
  • Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Forced prostitution by the handmaids; and houses of ill-repute secretly provided for the bigwigs.
  • Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan books. LPSTs on Beta Colony (Licensed Practical Sexual Therapists)
  • Carey, Jacqueline. Kushiel's Dart (2001) & sequels
  • Carr, Jayge. Leviathan's Deep (1979). Not a major theme, but there are definitely whores -- they're male. The society isn't primarily capitalist, so it may be that they are fulfilling religious service more than for money.
  • Kwasny, Melissa. Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West (Spinsters Book, San Francisco, 1990). A small Wyoming town is infested with quirky lesbians, ghosts, and politics. One of the ghosts -- a leading town-mother -- was the town madame / hooker.
  • Lackey, Mercedes. One of the Gryphon books have a sex-worker as a protagonist; these particular sex-workers are respected in society, and are combination therapist / sex therapist / masseur, and are of both sexes. Examples of that profession crop up in other of her later Valdemar works.
  • McMahon, Donna. Dance of Knives (2002) (major character was previously a sex worker; sex workers are common in the society)
  • Oberndorf, Charles. Sheltered Lives (1992). After the spread of "hives," a deadly STD, the government sets up shop with licensed sexual service workers.
  • O'Driscoll, Mike. "The Future of Birds". Transsexual Latina MTFs are all the rage in the future.
  • Schulman. Rainbow Cadenza. All women are required to spend several years in "the Service" - prostitution.
  • Waters, Sarah. Tipping the Velvet (It's not fantasy/sf, but readers of fantasy might well like it; the London of the early 20th century is pratically fantastic. This is a lesbian picaresque novel & well worth reading.)
  • Whedon, Joss. "Firefly" (character of Inara is a Companion, a registered multi-talented professional who at least sometimes includes sex in her services; she is regularly described as a whore by major character Mal; in episode "Heart of Gold", a former Companion is now a madame of a house of prostitution)
  • White, Ted. "Welcome to the Machine." Amazing, June 1976. [bisexual male prostitute in the future]
  • Wolfe, Gene. Free Live Free
  • "Alias"
    • episode 2x11 (#35) "Phase One" Sydney undercover as an escort
    • episode 2x21 (#43) "Second Double" Sydney undercover as a dominatrix
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