History Main / DenOfIniquity

* ''Film/TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas''trope codifier.

* ''Series/Angel'', the title character twice finds himself visiting supernatural brothels in the episodes 'War Zone' and 'Couplet', scripted to find former [[FairCop]] Kate Lochley working there.

* ''Film/Wild Orchid; 2 Shades of Blue'', a young girl is left destitute after the death of her heroin addict musician father but is taken in by a high class bordello where she works under the pseudonym "Blue".

* ''Series/Angel'', the title character twice finds himself visiting supernatural brothels in the episodes 'War Zone' and 'Couplet', scripted to find ex-[[FairCop]] Kate Lochley working there.

* ''Film/UndercoverHeat''. DirtyHarriet police officer Cindy Hannen (Athena Massey) goes undercover in a high-class whorehouse to catch a murderer. She discovers the fake clients set up for her cannot be relied upon and when faced with real tricks decides to sew her "Wild oats" and enjoy a sexual adventure as a real prostitute, transforming from tomboy into FairCop via a GirlinessUpgrade, essentially BecomingTheMask. Also played with when she does a roleplay as a (dominatrix-y) cop for one of her unwitting clients and indulges in AThreeSomeIsHot with an attractive married couple.

* The opening song in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' (yes, the Disney version) has the protagonist in a place with some scantily clad harem girls, who clearly know who he is. (Far from the only example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar here.)

Often populated with the PaidHarem and BodyguardBabes. The Den Of Iniquity isn't restricted to "evil" characters (as MissKitty can usually attest), but most [[IncorruptiblePurePureness heroes will simply find it beneath them]].

* The opening song in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' (yes, the Disney version) has the protagonist in a place with some scantily clad harem girls, who clearly know who he is. (Far from the only example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar here.)

'''[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Castiel]]:''' [Strip club] is a den of iniquity. I should not be here.\\

* In ''Literature/{{Caliphate}}'', Castle Noisvastei is a bordello operating under a fundamentalist Islamist state. Even though prostitution is punishable by death in states like Taliban, its tolerated under Islamist-controlled Germany where female Christians are kept as {{sex slave}}s, but Muslims can also be sent there if their husbands divorce them. It gets much worse when there are also women brainwashed with mind-controlled devices to be used as cheap pleasure for the costumers.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' sees Dean haul the angel Castiel to a brothel the night before said angel [[MustNotDieAVirgin expects to perish in a confrontation with the archangel Raphael]]. The incredibly straightlaced Castiel reacts predictably.

* ''{{ComicBook/Hellblazer}}'': In "Mortification of the Flesh", we learn that the Vatican has one, specifically, a room enchanted to be hidden from the eyes of God so that whatever is done in there isn't a sin. Built by Pope Alexander VI, who you may know better as Rodrigo Borgia. And the room certainly lives up to its reputation, having seen theft, fornication, murder, demon summoning... in that chapter alone.

* The opening song in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' (yes, the Disney version) has the protagonist in a place with some scantily clad harem girls, who clearly know who he is. (Far from the only example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar here.)

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' has the audience chamber in Jabba's Palace, with musicians, live dancers, chained slave girls, and a rancor pit where unsuspecting victims were thrown in for the audience's amusement.
* Thulsa Doom's orgy chamber in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Goes from creepy to horrifying when you notice [[ImAHumanitarian exactly what's on the menu]] in there.
-->'''Subotai:''' So this is paradise.

* Tony Stark's jet is a PG-rated version in ''Film/IronMan1'', complete with drinks, stripper pole and lascivious dancers.
* The hideout of the Foot Clan in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'' contains a room where underage teens smoke and gamble.

* In Kim Newman's ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'', Professor Moriarty has his apartment and criminal base in a building which has as its first floor a brothel, and his number two, Colonel Moran, often indulges himself with the "other employees." Moriarty himself seems to have no sex drive.
* The term "Den Of Iniquity" first appears in Creator/RobertEHoward's story "Texas John Alden".
* In the book ''Third And Indiana'', several of Diablo's hideouts are dens of iniquity.

* In the ''Literature/StarTrekATimeTo...'' series, The pirates at Rashanar have one inside a derelict spaceship.
** The ''Literature/StarTrekVanguard'' ExpandedUniverse series has one aboard the Omari-Ekon, the Orion ship under registry to Ganz.
* Qibbu's Hut from the ''Literature/RepublicCommandoSeries'' of books.

* In ''Literature/BeingAGreenMother'', we find that Satan runs Mock Hell, where all types of sin can be indulged in, for "merely" a percentage of evil on your soul. Of course, when you get over 50%, you go to Hell for real. And it's no picnic. Of course, Satan being Satan, the pleasures [[spoiler:aren't real]], but the evil on the soul is.

* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', Chinatown is a popular hangout for villains. Heroes stay away by truce.
* In ''Literature/TheLettersFromNicodemus'' Herod is throwing a birthday party. [[BibleTimes Yes, that Herod]]. Booze pours like rain and shameless women dance all night long in the Den of Iniquity Herod's palace becomes.

* In ''Literature/{{Caliphate}}'', Castle Noisvastei is another bordel operating under a fundamentalistic religious state like Gilead, except its Islamic in nature. Even though prostitution is punishable by death in states like Taliban, its tolerated under Islamist-controlled Germany where female Christians are kept as {{sex slave}}s, but Muslims can also be sent there if their husbands divorce them. It gets much worse when there are also women brainwashed with mind-controlled devices to be used as cheap pleasure for the costumers.

* Captain Pike's fantasy-planet in the original ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'''s "The Cage."

* In ''Series/{{Eagleheart}}'', a bizarre bylaw makes it legal to do ''anything'' in the sky. Everything goes, up to and including murder. Naturally, a crime baron sets up a blimp as his base of operations where every type of crime is indulged and encouraged (except smoking, because of the hydrogen)
-->'''Chris Monsanto:''' So what you're saying is that everything is legal in the sky, and there's a huge crime blimp floating around? I wonder how I missed that.
* ''Series/TheKnick'' features an opium den and a brothel, each of which ensnares various characters to greater or lesser degrees.

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Gomorrah, run by The Omerta. It also serves as a MinigameZone.
** Before that, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Den]] in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', and Dukov's Place in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''.
* The Temple of Depraved in VideoGame/WarriorsOfMightAndMagic. They're mainly demons worshippers and, for some reason, Gnolls and Ogres.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** The Den of Mortal Delights in the Black Temple raid instance in has parks, fluffy pillows, fountains, hookahs, silk curtains, nubile dancing blood elves, [[HornyDevils succubi and other female demons]] in stark contrast to the rest of the temple.
** Sunwell Plateau has a zone ''called'' the Den of Iniquity but it's empty and wrecked.
** In Talador, part of the city has Legion demons called "Concubines of Lust" and "Nefarious Madams", along with many mortal Legion members. It's pretty obvious what the purpose of the place is.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' showed a low-key example of this in the fourth season, a room inside the Monarch's cocoon where his minions would quietly gather for drinks on their downtime.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Kit Kat Club in "Tin Pan Alley Cats" (1943) is deemed a den of iniquity by the pastor of Uncle Tomcat's mission. He pleads the cartoon's protagonist not to go in "or you will be tempted by wine, women and song." The little guy's response: "What's de mattah wit' dat?!"

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Kit Kat Club in "Tin Pan Alley Cats" (1943) is deemed a den of iniquity by the pastor of Uncle Tomcat's Revival. He warns the cartoon's protagonist not to go in "or you will be tempted by wine, women and song." The little guy's response: "What's de mattah wit' dat?!"

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Kit Kat Club in "Tin Pan Alley Cats" (1943) is deemed a den of iniquity by the pastor of Uncle Tomcat's Revival. He earns the cartoon's protagonist not to go in "or you will be tempted by wine, women and song." The little guy's response: "What's de mattah wit' dat?!"

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The Kit Kat Club in "Tin Pan Alley Cats" (1943) is deemed a den of iniquity by the pastor of Uncle Tomcat's Revival. He earns the cartoon's protagonist not to go in "or you will be tempted by wine, women and song." The little guy's response" "What's de mattah wit' dat?!"

* The opening song in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' (yes, the Disney version) has the protagonist in a place with some scantily clad harem girls, who clearly know who he is. (Far from the only example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar here.)

* In ''L'épée de cistal'', there is one that is also a "stock exchange of sins": the minions shout the name of one of the seven DeadlySins, and by that means influence people all around the would to commit those sins.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' has ''The Ragged Flagon'', where the Thieves Guild hang out in-between jobs, located in the Ratway underneath Riften.

* ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' has Jezebel's, one of the few establishments left in Gilead where prostitution is permitted, but only to entertain the men. It passes itself off as a SmokyGentlemensClub to make itself seem respectable in the face of the country's own moral hypocrisy as a supposedly "God-fearing" theocratic state.

* In ''l'épée de cistal'', there is one that is also a "stock exchange of sins": the minions shout the name of one of the seven DeadlySins, and by that means influence people all around the would to commit those sins.

** Sunwell Plateau has a zone ''called'' the Den of Iniquity but its empty and wrecked.

* In the Literature/BookOfJeremiah (of Literature/The Bible), God condemns the Jews for treating His Temple like "a den of robbers" by breaking all the commandments except for "keeping the Sabbath holy" (by implication), declaring that "we are delivered" so that they can continue doing their abominations. (The same description is used by Jesus in the Gospels when He goes into the Temple to clean it out of the marketers and money-changers violating her sanctity -- an image made much more vivid in the theatrical and stage productions of ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar''.) In the apocryphal [[Literature/BooksOfMaccabees book of 2nd Maccabees]], the Temple is actually reduced to this with the introduction of pagan revelry by Antiochus Epiphanes, including sex workers and roasting abominable meats.