History Main / SchoolOfSeduction

A school where one learns to... well, be a member of TheOldestProfession, usually as a high-class prostitute. Rather than what you might first imagine--Double Pole-Dancing and bondage--the classes are more likely to be on seduction, etiquette and entertaining. The women are trained to serve wealthy, sophisticated clients who want more than just a good time between the sheets. By the time she graduates, she'll be equally confident ordering wine at a fine restaurant, attending an opera soiree, or lounging in a silk negligee.

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A school where one learns to... well, be a prostitute. We don't know if people like Double Pole-Dancing after lunch, or having to do homework on bondage.

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* The {{Hentai}} ''Discipline: the Record of a Crusade'' has St. Acadia Academy, where the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Social Club]] takes a number of lower ranking members, trains them to have the prowess a porn star, and [[SexSlave uses them to procure favors]] from [[CorruptPolitician politicians]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEOs.]]

* The Bene Gesserit in ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' are a faction who plans to manipulate the breeding lines of the great houses to produce a Kwisatz Haderach. As such they often manipulate individuals to marry, or a Bene Gesserit will marry into a particular family, all in the hopes that someday they will accomplish their goal. Later in the series, we see the Honored Matres, who are more explicitly a school of seduction.

* The Court of Night Blooming Flowers in Jacqueline Carey's ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'' series is a collection of brothels in a society in which prostitution is considered a sacred calling. Courtesans who are born in or adopted into the Night Court are given instruction in the arts of the salon (music, etiquette, etc.) as well as the arts of the bedchambers. It's an apprenticeship system, with titles and rites of initiation. You are expected to pay off your debt to the House that raised and trained you by working for them (though not necessarily as a prostitute) as part of IndenturedServitude (since they did spend money on making you a courtesan after all). There are a few loopholes in it, however, which the lead of the first Trilogy works at closing so no one will be abused.

* In Creator/MikhailAkhmanov and Christopher Nicholas Gilmore's ''Literature/CaptainFrenchOrTheQuestForParadise'', the titular character occasionally mentions the Order of Carnal Pleasures on the planet Dolores Rose. There are no taboos regarding this profession on the planet. Besides, they're much more like Greek hetaeras and {{High Class Call Girl}}s than street walkers, being schooled in dancing, singing, grace, the art of lovemaking, and table setting. The word "prostitute" is frowned upon on that world. In fact, the Order is unionized, so fair wages are guaranteed. French also tells of a device invented on a communist world that measures a person's happiness. He purchases the plans for the device and sells it to the Order, who install it on all the beds in their Happy Houses and use it to charge clients based on the level of pleasure they have received (above the minimum rate, of course). The funny part comes from the fact that French is telling this to Archon Geoffrey, a priest on the planet Murphy currently under the control of a religious group. The Archon is, naturally, horrified to learn of French selling this device to a house of sin and refusing to sell it to him.

* An unexpected variation in one episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' (though it's only mentioned, not actually seen): The "class" a madam provides for her call girls is in staying under the radar. How to behave and look like you belong in polite society, how to walk into a hotel like a registered guest instead of a prostitute. It helps the team realize that the client-murdering call girl they're looking for was born in the upper class, because she didn't need help fitting into those environments. She also, presumably, didn't need any help in the actual seduction either, since tracking her that way isn't even discussed.

* The Vodacce courtesan schools in the ''TabletopGame/SeventhSea'' tabletop RPG.