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* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' has wrongly-accused PI Dwight [=McCarthy=] on the run from the law and badly injured after being betrayed by the title character of the story ''A Dame To Kill For''. The girls of [[RedLightDistrict Old Town]] patch him up and allow him to stay for a while. He ends up using them to get his revenge on the people who set him up.

* In Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/TheLarkAndTheWren'', the heroine is housed in a brothel; she plays music for the customers, and it is made clear that no more is expected -- or wanted -- from her.

-->"She kept waking me up and asking me if I wanted anything [[ComicallyMissingThePOint but she didn't have any apples]]."
* In ''Literature/FirstRidersCall'' by Kristen Britain, Karigan G'ladheon stays the night at a brothel. Unfortunately for her, she happens to be staying in the same room as Trudy, a prostitute who only caters to lesbians. The morning after, Trudy won't stop implying to Karigan's friends that they, ahem, had relations.
* In ''Film/{{Devdas}}'' (both the novel and the numerous [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]]), Chandramukhi offers Devdas a place to stay.
* In ''The Third Life of Grange Copeland,'' Brownfield winds up staying at a brothel when he gives up searching for his father. It turns out the prostitute was his father's ex-lover, [[LoveFatherLoveSon and he sleeps with her too]]. And her daughter, who's another prostitute. And then he marries her non-prostitute niece and the father comes back and marries the first prostitute and really it's just a big, dysfunctional mess.
* It's mentioned in one of the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' books that Stephen Maturin stayed in one of the brothels in Jakarta, where the ship is docked on a diplomatic mission, because it was simply the cheapest place to stay, not to mention convenient for carrying out [[TheSpymaster his trade]]. The girl he shares the bed with is only initially surprised that he's not interested in sex. The crew of the ship, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments naturally]], don't know about his job as Britain's premier spy and come to the obvious conclusion about his, er, stamina and prowess.
* In the novel ''The Thief and the Dogs,'' by Naguib Mahfouz, Said runs from law enforcement after attempting to murder his old friend, Ilish Sidra. He hides for the next several days with his old friend, [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Nur, who just so happens to be a prostitute.]] "Intimate" relations between the two are implied.
* ''Literature/OliverTwist'': Nancy, a prostitute, takes the novel's title character – a young street urchin – under her wing. Unlike most other examples on this page, there are no sexual relations between the two; Nancy's motives are pure in that she vows to reform Oliver into a respectable young man.
* British spy Literature/{{Quiller}} has been known to do this from time to time when he needs a place to hide out. In ''The Peking Target'', while in South Korea the hooker he's with is an American who provides this service on a regular basis for lonely US officers fresh out of West Point who [[PlatonicProstitution just want to hear someone who speaks English]].
* ''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 ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', after [[spoiler:they defect from the Radham academy]], Sy and Jamie stay at a brothel, treating it basically like a safe house.

** In ''Literature/{{California}}'', Melissa arranges for the runaway Isaiah to stay at Big George's while he ran away from home.
** In ''Literature/{{Utah}}'', Kale Salton has Beth stay at her home after the trial.

* The TropeNamer is a song by Music/TheStatlerBrothers; a young man is taken in by the titular Lady Rose, and it's made clear that he has indeed slept with her for the first time.[[note]]The group says that it was inspired by a friend of theirs in Virginia, who lived across the street from a brothel as a child and would sometimes go over to have the women make breakfast for him.[[/note]]

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* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' Ezio, Maria, and Claudia seek refuge in a brothel while the Auditore men are being rounded up and arrested. They remain there until they can leave the city.

Compare PlatonicProstitution and NeedAHandOrAHandjob.

* ''Film/TradingPlaces'' has Louis Winthorpe III taken in by Ophelia, a streetwise hooker.
* ''Film/LeavingLasVegas'' has Nicholas Cage's character taken in by Elizabeth Shue's character, another streetwise hooker.
* ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'' the title character is taken in by a prostitute whom he rescued from the villain's son.

* ''Irma La Douce'' had Shirley [=MacLaine=]'s title character taking in Jack Lemmon's character after he lost his job as a cop.

* Used in "[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/106068/1/relax/intimacy Relax]]" in a rather heartwarming way. The girl allows her regular client to spend the night with her after they have sex instead of making him leave.

* ''Webcomic/GetMedieval'' has poor Asher solicited by Belle, a lady of the night, in the most deadpan pickup line ever: they're cold, wet, and it's raining cats and dogs, and neither she nor Asher is willing to ask questions about exactly ''what'' they're getting into. They just wind up having a heart-to-heart, from which both profit. [[spoiler: They eventually hook up after Belle does a SweetPollyOliver, albeit briefly.]]

* In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Carrot is staying at a brothel. He has no idea of his home's true nature. He also misses the point when he tells this to someone else, and they are impressed that he can afford it, and by his stamina. They don't charge him rent in exchange for his services as a bouncer, which he also doesn't quite grasp. The offer included access to the place's usual services too, and it seems like the owners never quite figured out that he wasn't just being a gentleman in not taking advantage.

* In Literature/TheBible, in the second chapter of Joshua, the prostitute Rahab houses and protects two spies sent by Joshua, and she is commended in the book of Hebrews (11:31).

* In Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/TheLarkAndTheWren'', the heroine is housed in a brothel; she plays music for the customers, and it is made clear that no more is expected--or wanted--from her.
* In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Carrot is staying at a brothel. He has no idea of his home's true nature. He also misses the point when he tells this to someone else, and they are impressed that he can afford it, and by his stamina. They don't charge him rent in exchange for his services as bouncer, which he also doesn't quite grasp. The offer included access to the place's usual services too, and it seems like the owners never quite figured out that he wasn't just being a gentleman in not taking advantage.

* ''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 ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' Ezio, Maria and Claudia seek refuge in a brothel while the Auditore men are being rounded up and arrested. They remain there until they can leave the city.

* ''Webcomic/GetMedieval'' has poor Asher solicited by Belle, a lady of the night, in the most deadpan pickup line ever: they're cold, wet, and it's raining cats and dogs, and neither she nor Asher are willing to ask questions about exactly ''what'' they're getting into. They just wind up having a heart-to-heart, from which both profit. [[spoiler: They eventually hook up up after Belle does a SweetPollyOliver, albeit briefly.]]

* Kawakami Gensai (the real life inspiration for ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'') once hid out in a brothel after an assassination, and was said to look so feminine that he was able to pass for one of the girls.

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* Used in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/106068/1/relax/intimacy Relax]] in a rather heartwarming way. The girl allows her regular client to spend the night with her after they have sex instead of making him leave.

* In ''Bollywood/{{Devdas}}'' (both the novel and the numerous [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]]), Chandramukhi offers Devdas a place to stay.