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'''Prostitution''' was the selling of [[sex]]ual favors for [[money]] or other things of value. Someone who engaged in such activity was known as a '''prostitute''', '''hooker''' or '''call girl'''. The term "'''whore'''" was a derogatory term usually aimed at prostitutes.
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'''Prostitution''' or '''sexual procurement''' was the using or selling of [[sexual favor]]s for [[money]] or other things of value.
 
In [[2372]], [[Q]] revealed that if [[Quinn]] had never inspired [[Sir]] [[Isaac Newton]], Newton would have ended up in a [[Liverpool]] [[debtor's prison]] as a suspect in [[Human unknown era prostitutes 001|several prostitute]] [[murder]]s. ({{VOY|Death Wish}})
 
 
The malevolent entity [[Redjac]] murdered [[Redjac's Human victims 001|numerous prostitutes]] in [[London]] from [[19th century|1888 to 1891]] during his time on [[Earth]] as [[Jack the Ripper]]. ({{TOS|Wolf in the Fold}})
 
 
While stranded in [[San Francisco]] of [[1893]], [[Data]] was offered the company of [[Lillian]], a prostitute, by the [[bellboy]] of the [[Hotel Brian]], [[Jack London]]. ({{TNG|Time's Arrow}})
 
 
In a [[holographic]] recreation of a [[Sherlock Holmes]] story, {{dis|James Moriarty|hologram}} accompanied a prostitute until a murder occured. ({{TNG|Elementary, Dear Data}})
 
 
In [[2004]] on Earth, a man named {{dis|Loomis|21st century}} was kidnapping various people in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]] for their [[blood]] types. Among these people was a prostitute who had donated blood earlier so that they could check for sexually transmitted [[disease]]s. ({{ENT|Carpenter Street}})
 
   
 
The [[Oran'taku]] [[Rajiin]] claimed she was very young when she was kidnapped from her [[homeworld]] and sold into [[slavery]] for her sexual talents. In [[2153]], she was placed in [[Zjod]]'s sex slave shop in a [[Xanthan floating bazaar|floating bazaar]] on the [[Xanthan homeworld]]. ({{ENT|Rajiin}})
 
The [[Oran'taku]] [[Rajiin]] claimed she was very young when she was kidnapped from her [[homeworld]] and sold into [[slavery]] for her sexual talents. In [[2153]], she was placed in [[Zjod]]'s sex slave shop in a [[Xanthan floating bazaar|floating bazaar]] on the [[Xanthan homeworld]]. ({{ENT|Rajiin}})
   
During the [[2250s]], both male and female [[Orion]] sex workers operated at an [[embassy]] [[outpost]] on [[Qo'noS]]. They claimed that they had to charge customers irregardless of personal feelings. ({{DIS|Will You Take My Hand?}})
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During the [[2250s]], both male and female [[Orion]] sex workers operated at an [[embassy]] [[outpost]] on [[Qo'noS]]. They claimed that they had to charge customers regardless of personal feelings. ({{DIS|Will You Take My Hand?}})
   
 
In [[2367]], [[William T. Riker]] prostituted himself by having sex with [[Lanel]] in order to escape from a [[Malcorian]] [[hospital]]. ({{TNG|First Contact}})
 
In [[2367]], [[William T. Riker]] prostituted himself by having sex with [[Lanel]] in order to escape from a [[Malcorian]] [[hospital]]. ({{TNG|First Contact}})
 
A [[Ktarian]] [[Ktarian hooker 001|space hooker]] was seen in a [[bar]] on [[Qualor II]] in [[2368]]. ({{TNG|Unification II}})
 
 
In [[2369]] [[Constable]] [[Odo]] told [[Quark]] that his duties on this [[day]] included the search of incarnations of the [[Prophet]]s, long dead lovers, [[blizzard]]s, [[gunji jackdaw]]s, and trollops. During the last word he eyed Quark's two previously missing girls. ({{DS9|If Wishes Were Horses}})
 
   
 
Unofficially, [[Quark's]] on [[Deep Space 9]] featured prostitution, in the form of [[hologram|holographic]] "entertainment." ({{DS9|Meridian|Profit and Lace}})
 
Unofficially, [[Quark's]] on [[Deep Space 9]] featured prostitution, in the form of [[hologram|holographic]] "entertainment." ({{DS9|Meridian|Profit and Lace}})
   
 
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In [[2370]], [[Kira Nerys]] posed as a prostitute to get past the [[security]] guards at the [[Hutet]] [[labor camp]]. ({{DS9|The Homecoming}})
 
 
In 2372, {{dis|Captain|rank}} [[Kathryn Janeway]] posed as a prostitute in order to gain access to the [[prison]] cell, where [[B'Elanna Torres]] and [[Tuvok]] were held captive by the [[Mokra Order]]. She previously witnessed two [[Augris' species prostitutes 001|prostitutes]] native to the [[Unnamed Delta Quadrant planets#Mokra-controlled planet|planet]]. ({{VOY|Resistance}})
 
 
In [[2374]], [[Liam Bilby|Bilby]] arranged a [[Farian]] prostitute on [[Farius Prime]] for [[Connelly]], but he claimed to have already met a [[woman]] who "worked at a [[flower]] [[shop]]", paid the woman and had her leave. ({{DS9|Honor Among Thieves}})
 
 
''In the [[alternate reality]], during {{alt|Spock}}'s youth, he was often taunted by [[bully|bullies]] in an effort to evoke an [[emotion]]al response from him via [[insult]]s. The bullies were finally successful on their thirty-fifth attempt when they called {{alt|Sarek|Spock's father}} a "[[treason|traitor]]" because he [[marriage|married]] a {{alt|Amanda Grayson|woman}} they described as a "[[Human]] whore."'' ({{film|11}})
 
 
{{bginfo|In the script, Spock's father was described as a traitor but his mother not as a whore. However there was another insult where she was said to lie with many men.|Frequent {{s|1}} director [[Marc Daniels]] once commented that, although any overtly sexual episodes of TOS were usually censored, prostitution was examined in {{e|Mudd's Women}}, which Daniels referred to as "basically prostitution at large, which was in the papers every day [during the making of TOS]." He went on to say, "''We were not promoting it or coming out against it. All we were saying is that it happens here and it happens in outer space, and the censors let it go.''" (''[[Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages]]'', p. 29)|A [[deleted scene]] from {{ENT|Broken Bow}} featured three [[Rigel X hooker 1|three alien hookers]] on [[Rigel X]].}}
 
 
== Prostitutes ==
 
<gallery>
 
File:Woman, Deadwood.jpg|A [[19th century]] [[Ancient West hologram woman 001|holographic Human prostitute]]
 
File:Prostitute.jpg|A 19th century [[Sherlock Holmes prostitute 001|holographic Human prostitute]]
 
File:Human prostitute 1.jpg|A [[21st century]] [[Human 21st century prostitute 1|Human prostitute]]
 
File:Rajiin for sale.jpg|[[Rajiin]], a [[22nd century]] alien prostitute
 
File:Ktarian space hooker.jpg|A [[24th century]] [[Ktarian]] [[Ktarian hooker 001|space hooker]]
 
File:FarianFemale.jpg|A 24th century [[Farian]] [[Farian woman 001|prostitute]]
 
File:Augris' species prostitute 1.jpg|A [[Augris' species prostitutes 001|prostitute]] of [[Augris' species]]
 
</gallery>
 
 
== See also ==
 
* [[Captain's woman]]
 
* [[Comfort woman]]
 
* [[Miss Langford's House of Pleasure]]
 
* [[Net-girl]]
 
* [[Orion slave girl]]
 
 
== External links ==
 
* {{mbeta|Prostitute}}
 
 
* {{wikipedia}}
 
* {{wikipedia}}
   
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Revision as of 17:23, 16 January 2020

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Prostitution or sexual procurement was the using or selling of sexual favors for money or other things of value.

The Oran'taku Rajiin claimed she was very young when she was kidnapped from her homeworld and sold into slavery for her sexual talents. In 2153, she was placed in Zjod's sex slave shop in a floating bazaar on the Xanthan homeworld. (ENT: "Rajiin")

During the 2250s, both male and female Orion sex workers operated at an embassy outpost on Qo'noS. They claimed that they had to charge customers regardless of personal feelings. (DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?")

In 2367, William T. Riker prostituted himself by having sex with Lanel in order to escape from a Malcorian hospital. (TNG: "First Contact")

Unofficially, Quark's on Deep Space 9 featured prostitution, in the form of holographic "entertainment." (DS9: "Meridian", "Profit and Lace")

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