History Main / PlatonicProstitution

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': While alive, Louis regularly employed the services of a high-class prostitute named Lily [[TheBeard 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 in his living room, Lily does give Louis fellatio until Lestat [[ForcedSleep makes her go to sleep]].

** One of [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask 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 TearJerker.

* The same thing happens in ''TheOrphanOfAnyang'': A worker hires a prostitute to look after an abandoned baby he came across.

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** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Carrot is offered a [[NeedAHandOrAHandjob place to stay]] at Mrs. [[ADateWithRosiePalms Palm's]] house of very good repute after he rescues one of her “daughters”, 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.

* In the first book of Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[=SERRAted Edge=]'' series, the protagonist hires a runaway teen prostitute specifically to get her off the streets. In the end, after saving her and some of her friends/coworkers from an [[FairFolk Unseelie]] plot, he is able to get her off the streets and back to her parents.

* ''Fraternity of the Stone'', by David Morrell. The protagonist spends the night with a prostitute to avoid sleeping in a hotel, as he's on the run from people who have already gone to great lengths to track him down and kill him. However he has trouble convincing the woman he doesn't want to sleep with her ([[HeelFaithTurn he's a monk]]), yet isn't planning something nasty instead. They do share the bed; he pretends this is out of a desire to just hold her for comfort, when actually it's to [[ProperlyParanoid ensure she can't sneak out of the room without waking him up]].

* In one of Leonard Tourney's Elizabethan mysteries, the hero (an amateur detective) visits a particular prostitute to question her, and naturally the receptionist, and the prostitute at first, think he's there for sex.

* ''Deceiver'' has this in the crucial flashbacks.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' music number, Brian is telling 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.

** 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]].

* Accidentally happens in [[http://notalwaysright.com/fortunately-for-us-both-i-like-crazy/22447 this]] Website/NotAlwaysRight story: A client calls a phone sex hotline, asks the girl to [[GeekyTurnOn call herself Cortana]]... and she turns out to be a ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' fan herself, so they talk about video games for three hours instead.

* ''VideoGame/{{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.

* ''Webcomic/{{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 “unnatural” tastes. Seeing as he's a reluctant and deeply religious lich, this is well-needed therapy to him.

->'''Tommy''': How can I fulfill your fantasy?\\
'''Sheila''': Go paint my house.

* Near the end of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid'', Sōsuke is approached by a prostitute who looks [[IdenticalStranger almost exactly like Kaname]]. Since he's deep in the throes of a HeroicBSOD, 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.

* ''VideoGame/{{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.

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': While alive, Louis regularly employed the services of a high-class prostitute named Lily [[TheBeard 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, the two are alone with Lestat in his room Lily does give Louis fellatio until Lestat's [[ForcedSleep made her go asleep]].

** In another episode, eater 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.

* Another phone sex operator variant in [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02112010.shtml this]] unspeakably depressing ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' strip. [[spoiler:Context: Erik is working as a gay phone sex operator to an old man who mistakes him for his former lover, Marvin.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/TownOfSalem'' AffectionateParody series ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay6z5vDuFig Town of Salem IRL]]'', the Escort and Consort distract their targets by playing video games with them.
* This appears in the Batman fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29300952 transaction]]'', where a very young, neglected, and touch-starved Tim Drake pays a young Jason Todd (working as a prostitute shortly before being adopted by Bruce Wayne) for hugs. He apparently continues to pay the younger prostitutes for hugs after Jason is adopted.

* Done twice in the ''Pocket Men'' collection. A man, unhappy with his wife, approaches a hooker to take home, only to be revealed that he wants someone to taste his wife's LethalChef concoctions. Another strip has a man approached by a streetwalker, thinking about his loving wife, realizing his wife loves to chat, and bringing the hooker home to have a conversation with her while he enjoys some sleep.

* ''Webcomic/{{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. Seeing as he's a reluctant lich, this is well-needed therapy to him.

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* Attempted and questionably successful in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: 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. HilarityEnsues.