As the old saying goes, "Behind every great man, t...  ...yellow."Read about and see pictures of nine other prostitutes who made the history books here.

A new exhibit of Japanese art in San Francisco cal...  ...ent world. But these women of the Edo period were prostitutes in the Yoshiwara pleasure district outside Edo (n...  ...ship that promotes idea that the women working as prostitutes had an economic power that they might not have ot...

The following is a list from the book Uncle John's...  ...forbade royals from marrying mere actresses (and prostitutes , presumably), so his uncle changed the law and Ju...  ...closed brothels, and founded convents for former prostitutes . When she died at around the age of 50, she had b...  ...ife in a section...

Officials in Auckland, New Zealand have encountere...  ...f the night, plying their trades in the street. " Prostitutes use these street sign poles as dancing poles," sa...  ...uipment and they often snap them. "Some of the prostitutes are big, strong people." Now, doesn't that paint...