History Main / PlatonicProstitution

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* While she's not a prostitute, in ''Film/BlackKnight2001'', 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 LaResistance), 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 [[ImmodestOrgasm appropriate sounds]] in-between whispers.

* In ''Film/IrmaLaDouce'' the protagonist plays cards with the eponymous prostitute.

* While making ''Film/{{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... [[ActuallyPrettyFunny unusually ingenious of him]].

* The NSFW ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' strip Babes of the Abyss starts with a nerd who makes a DealWithTheDevil to have sex with demon girls, and is told that the price is [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie 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.

* While she's not a prostitute, in ''Film/BlackKnight'', 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 LaResistance), 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 [[ImmodestOrgasm appropriate sounds]] in-between whispers.

* In Creator/GregEgan's short story “The Moral Virologist” ([[http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_11/11_moral.htm Link]]), a religious fundamentalist regularly pays prostitutes to try and tempt him to "sin," just to test his resolve. (In an inversion, one of the prostitutes ends up lecturing ''him'' about morality.) After he [[spoiler:creates a SyntheticPlague and makes himself the TyphoidMary for it]], his motive shifts to [[spoiler:surreptitiously infecting "sinners" with it]].

* In ''Series/TheITCrowd'', Moss accidentally tells a crowd of people about how he and his fellow [[HeterosexualLifePartners 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.

* In one of the side stories written for ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'', 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.

** A large number of [[TheOldestProfession women in the trade]] ''can'' and ''will'' spend time with their clients [[TruthInTelevision in other ways beside sex]]-going out, escorting and so on. [[DontTryThisAtHome It takes mutual trust, sympathy and luck. True, not faked]].

* Holden Caulfield of ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' does this, sort of. He hires her for sex, but gets uncomfortable and ends up turning her down. Mark David Chapman, who sought to be a real-life Caulfield, did the same thing just before killing Music/JohnLennon, except that he never had any intention of having sex with the prostitute. One can only imagine that it was an extremely uncomfortable night...

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', 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 "It's a deal!" and rushes into the nearby arcade while the prostitute drags her feet to stretch the time.[[note]]Homer is getting horribly ripped off, btw. $350 is a competitive rate for a call girl (middle class prostitute) in 2018; a {{Streetwalker}} (lower class) in 2003 wouldn't have a rate anything near that. Maybe she just hates air hockey.[[/note]]

These men -- [[AlwaysMale 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 [[AmateurSleuth wants information]] concerning one of her clients. Perhaps he's {{Transgender}} or a SweetPollyOliver, 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.

* While spying on a target in "Comicbook/WelcomeBackFrank" story arc, Comicbook/ThePunisher 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.

* In ''Film/TheKillingOfJohnLennon'', Chapman hires a prostitute for company on the night before he pulls off his plan, in an attempt to recreate a scene from ''Literature/CatcherInTheRye''.

* In one documentary about the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, also known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Army the Ghost Army]], one soldier named Victor Dowd spent his time in a Parisian brothel [[https://ghostarmy.com/gallery/f/Art/42 sketching the ladies]], and says he wouldn't have had to pay if he had given her the drawing he had made of her but he decided to keep it.

* The titular ''Film/DeuceBigalow'' 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 DesignatedLoveInterest at the end of each film.

* Rasputin. Yeah, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin THAT Rasputin]] reportedly would hire prostitutes, have them strip naked in front of him, stare at them for a while, and then dismiss them, after which he would walk the streets berating himself for his lustful thoughts. ItMakesSenseInContext, as Rasputin was part of a small group of Christians who essentially believed in deliberately sinning so they could then receive forgiveness from God.