Female sex workers in SF
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Characters whose work explicitly involves sexual behavior or sexual performance. Includes people who provide sexual services for money or professionally, e.g., whores, prostitutes, streetwalkers, escorts, courtesans, callgirls; sex performers; and people who do sexual performance for money or professionally, e.g., strippers, actors, lapdancers, nude or pinup girl models, etc.
See also List of non-female sex workers in SF and Index to female characters by occupation
List of works
- Brian W. Aldiss. "Lambeth Blossom" in Strange Bedfellows: Sex and Science Fiction, edited by Thomas N. Scortia (1972). © 1967.
- Central protagonist; other side characters. Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale. Forced prostitution by the handmaids; and houses of ill-repute secretly provided for the bigwigs.
- Lois McMaster Bujold. Vorkosigan books. LPSTs on Beta Colony (Licensed Practical Sexual Therapists) of both sexes.
- Phedre no Delaunay - Jacqueline Carey. Kushiel's Dart (2001) & sequels - Series focuses on Phedre no Delaunay, a female courtesan, but society includes sex workers of both genders.
- Melissa Kwasny. 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.
- Mercedes Lackey. The Gryphon books and other Valdemar series books include the "kestra'chern" profession; a sex-worker that is respected ins ociety and is a combination therapist, sex therapist, and masseur. They come in both sexes. One of the Gryphon books focuses on Amberdrake, a male kestra'chern.
- Donna McMahon. Dance of Knives (2002) (major character was previously a sex worker; sex workers are common in the society)
- Charles Oberndorf. Sheltered Lives (1992). After the spread of "hives," a deadly STD, the government sets up shop with licensed sexual service workers of both sexes.
- Protagonist in J. Neil Schulman. The Rainbow Cadenza. All women are required to spend several years in "the Service" - prostitution.
- Protagonist in Sarah Waters. 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. The butch woman is passing as a man when she is selling blow jobs on the street.
- Inara Serra, a companion in Joss Whedon. "Firefly" - A "Companion" is a registered multi-talented professional who at least sometimes includes sex in her services. Although Companions are respected in the inner worlds, they may be treated as common whores in the outer worlds (see Serenity movie), and Inara is regularly described as a whore by her romantic interest, series protagonist Mal. See also episode "Heart of Gold", which features a former Companion who is now a madame of a house of prostitution.)
- Gene Wolfe. Free Live Free
- "Alias"
- episode 2x11 (#35) "Phase One" Sydney undercover as an escort
- episode 2x21 (#43) "Second Double" Sydney undercover as a dominatrix
- "Battlestar Galactica (1978)"
- Cassiopeia was a "socialator", basically a courtesan or call-girl
- "Heroes - Niki Sanders (played by Ali Larter) was an online performance sex worker