Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

Cross-cutting was also used to get new effects of contrast, such as the cross-cut sequence in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus, in which a supposedly dead husband is having a liaison with a Chinese prostitute in an opium den, while simultaneously his unknowing wife is being remarried in church.

* Belle Watling: A prostitute and brothel madam, Belle is portrayed as a loyal Confederate.

* 1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.

Mary Magdalene is shown is this painting by Guido Reni repenting of her former sinful ways as a prostitute.

The identification of Mary Magdalene as prostitute and adulteress is perpetuated by much Western medieval Christian art.

In 1969, the Catholic Church allegedly admitted what critics had been saying for centuries: Magdalene's standard image as a reformed prostitute is not supported by the text of the Bible.

As it happens, Cassio is having a relationship of sorts with Bianca, a prostitute.

Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, a cancer-riddled prostitute, is " actually more interesting than the main storyline " while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, " The Cruz / Ifans storyline – featuring the only two remotely sympathetic characters – never really fuses with the main plot.

She spoke Italian again as a flashy prostitute in Woody Allen's 2012 To Rome with Love and she is set to reunite with Italian director Sergio Castellitto in his war tale Venuto al Mondo as Gemma.

In Miles Gloriosus, for instance, the female concubine ’ s name, Philocomasium, translates to “ lover of a good party ”— which is quite apt when we learn about the tricks and wild ways of this prostitute.

* Pris Stratton ( played by Darryl Hannah ) is a prostitute referred to as a " basic pleasure " model for military personnel.

Pris and Zhora's descriptions were mixed up ( perhaps deliberately ) in the film: Zhora acts as a " basic pleasure model ", attempting to pass off as a stripper, while Pris ( who is dressed like a prostitute ) is capable of acrobatic combat moves which nearly kill Deckard.

Thus, although the term is sometimes viewed as a synonym or euphemism for prostitute, it is more general.

* In Henry IV, Part 2, the prostitute Doll Tearsheet is omitted entirely ; the slightly more reputable Mistress Quickly is retained.

Diary of a Lost Girl ( 1929 ) directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and starring Louise Brooks, deals with a young woman who is thrown out of her home after having an illegitimate child, and is then forced to become a prostitute to survive.

* September 5 – British prostitute Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury.

La Ruffiana ( in Italian, pimp or whore ) is an older female character of the commedia dell ' arte with a shady past or who used to be a prostitute.

Marriage Italian-Style () is a 1964 film by Vittorio De Sica that tells the World War II era story of a cynical, successful businessman named Domenico ( Mastroianni ), who, after meeting a naive country girl, Filomena ( Loren ), one night in a Neapolitan brothel, keeps frequenting her for years in an on-off relationship ( as she continues working as a prostitute ).

" La Retorica is written in the form of a dialogue between an aged prostitute and her naive apprentice.

While accompanying Thomas Kavanaugh on his daring escape from Lucknow, he paused for a quick rattle with a local prostitute, and during the battle of Patusan, he found himself galloping one of Sharif Sahib's concubines without even realizing it.

Throughout the novel, Sonya is an important source of moral strength and rehabilitation for Raskolnikov, and in some interpretations, even considered a Christ-like figure. She is forced to prostitute herself to provide for her family.

Prostitution was relatively inexpensive for the Roman male but it is important to note that even a low priced prostitute earned more than three times the wages of an unskilled urban laborer.

In successive image and sound reprises, the allusion to the involvement between a bohemian aristocrat with the fado singing prostitute would cross several sung poems and even the cinema and the theatre or the visual arts-beginning with the novel A Severa, by Júlio Dantas, published in 1901 and transported to the silver screen in 1931-the first Portuguese sound film, directed by Leitão de Barros.

Arkwright often describes his sister as being extremely promiscuous, even a prostitute.

She is thrown out of the temple, becomes a prostitute, but fails even at that.

In the UK, prostitution itself is legal, but associated activities such as kerb crawling, soliciting in public, keeping a brothel and pimping are not ; and the Policing and Crime Act 2009 makes it illegal to pay for sex with a prostitute who has been " subjected to force " and this is a strict liability offence ( clients can be prosecuted even if they didn ’ t know the prostitute was forced ).

" In colloquial American English, the word " tramp " can also mean a sexually promiscuous female or even prostitute.

Drusilla herself earned a rather poor reputation because of the close bond she shared with Caligula and was even likened to a prostitute by later scholars, in an attempt to discredit Caligula.

" ( 1 Cor 6: 9-10 ) Newer versions, like the New International version and the even more recent International Standard, however, replace " effeminate " with the more specific " male prostitute ", reflecting a different understanding of how the term was used by Paul.

It originated in Australia, at first carrying a similar meaning to ' lout ', i. e. an annoying or disruptive person, or even a prostitute.

Fortunately, a core of young critics and scholars of successive generations has continued to stand-and even swear-by Divya ’ s yearning for independence when she decides to be a prostitute, so as to be a free woman and have ownership rights over her body.

Tang had earlier been reluctant in putting all his savings into a bank and had even unknowingly gone home with a prostitute while touring Rome with Chen ; he had further frustrated her by not being able to understand the Italian and English languages.

He even cruelly threatens to prostitute Jessie and "... whack out your whole family " if Frank does not continue working for him.

To provide a few examples, several studies have indicated that most people associate being labeled mentally ill as being just as, or even more, stigmatizing than being seen as a drug addict, ex-convict, or prostitute ( for example: Brand & Claiborn 1976 ).

Johnson, who becomes depressed after a Parisian prostitute leaves him for a British officer, has a period during which he anguishes over the fact that he doesn't seem to desire any woman at all, even though spring is approaching.

Fukushima even composed a poem titled “ From Fallen Petal to Rising Star ”, in which he honored a prostitute who became a patriot through her intelligence gathering activities.

Springsteen explained the two songs by revealing that " Reno " was about a man so in love with his lost wife that his desperation could not be vanquished even by a prostitute (" It wasn't the best I ever had / not even close ") and that the expletive in " Long Time Comin '" was not negative but, in fact, a positive affirmation (" I ain't gonna fuck it up this time ," referring to raising his new child ).

His fleeting mention of Mrs. Warren's past and and their reactions to meeting each other make it clear that he was familiar with her when she was a prostitute, even though it is not explicitly said.

Only Nur, a prostitute, and Tarzan, a café-owner, provide Said with any respite from his anger and the world at large which is closing in on him, yet in time even they cannot help him.

Everyone around him, even a prostitute who truly cares for him, is shut off due to his lust for vengeance.

Included in the Therigatha are the verses of a mother whose child has died ( Thig VI. 1 and VI. 2 ), a former prostitute who became a nun ( Thig V. 2 ), a wealthy heiress who abandoned her life of pleasure ( Thig VI. 5 ), and even of the Buddha's own stepmother, Maha Pajapati ( Thig VI. 6 ).