Fictional courtesans and prostitutes Fictional courtesans and prostitutes Catwoman (real name Selina Kyle) is a DC Comics character, associated with the Batman franchise. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, she first appeared in Batman #1 (Spring, 1940), where she was initially known as "The Cat". Her real name "Selina" derives from the ancient lunar deity Selene. ...more on Wikipedia about "Catwoman"
Coagula (real name Kate Godwin, birth name Clark Godwin) is a former member of Doom Patrol. Kate was one of the first transsexual characters in comics, and remains one of the only transsexual super-heroines. She is a male-to-female transsexual. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coagula"
Darla (born in 1580 in a Virginia Colony) is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television programs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. The character is portrayed by Julie Benz. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darla (vampire)"
Donna Beck (full name Donna Beck Tyler Cortlandt Sago Tyler) was a character on the long-running American soap opera All My Children. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donna Beck"
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill is a novel by John Cleland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fanny Hill"
Georges "Jo" Querelle is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genet's 1953 novel Querelle de Brest. He was portrayed by Brad Davis in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1982 movie adaptation of the novel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georges Querelle"
The hooker with a heart of gold (also the whore with a heart of gold or the tart with a heart) is a stock character in which a fallen woman, a prostitute who sells sex for cash or drugs, is in fact a kindly and internally wholesome person. This character is often a pivotal, but peripheral, character in literature and motion pictures, usually giving key advice or serving as a go-between. She is sometimes established in contrast to another female character who is morally perfect but frigid or otherwise unyielding. The stereotype owes a debt to Mary Magdalene, and is pervasive enough in myth and culture that it might be considered an archetype. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hooker with a heart of gold" Just http://www.shortopedia.com way
Inara Serra is a character from the science-fiction television series Firefly, created by Joss Whedon. She is played by Morena Baccarin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inara Serra"
Josefine Mutzenbacher is a famous fictional Austrian courtesan in an erotic fictional autobiography novel which was published in Vienna in 1906. The author is anonymous, but it is generally believed that it was Felix Salten, also known for having written Bambi, A Life in the Woods. The novel has become a matter of debate in Germany, because it describes at great length the sexual activities of Josefine when she was a child. ...more on Wikipedia about "Josefine Mutzenbacher"
Mia Dearden was is a fictional character created by writer Kevin Smith and artists Phil Hester and Ande Parks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mia Dearden"
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moll Flanders"
Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Emile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire" (Becker 96). ...more on Wikipedia about "Nana (novel)"
Stacy X (Miranda Leevald) is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe, a mutant prostitute who was briefly affiliated with the X-Men. She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #399 ( 2001) by Joe Casey and Tom Raney. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stacy X"
Tristessa is a short novel by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute (the title character). The woman's real name was Esperanza ("hope" in Spanish); Kerouac changed her name ...more on Wikipedia about "Tristessa"
Typhoid Mary is the name of a comic book fictional character most commonly associated with Daredevil. Typhoid Mary (aka Mary Walker) first appeared in Daredevil #254 and was created by Ann Nocenti and John Romita, Jr. ...more on Wikipedia about "Typhoid Mary (comics)"
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