brothel

No-nonsense Maomao, a Tang Dynasty-era girl raised in a brothel who escapes servitude to parlay her apothecary skills in service of the palace, is one of the best female protagonists of all time.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025

“Poor Things” features Bella, a reanimated woman who has to invent her life, and her guideposts are a prostitute, a brothel madam and a former actress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

How did you approach the different Louises: the brothel owner, the legit businessman, the centenarian?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022

In the show, Louis is a Creole brothel owner who travels in white circles, lamenting in the pilot that he can’t be an “openly gay Negro man.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

The sept tempted him no more than the brothel; his own gods kept their temples in the wild places, where the weirwoods spread their bone-white branches.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Starting this weekend, brothels and bars will have earlier closing times and a ban on smoking cannabis on the streets in and around the Red Light District comes into force in May.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2023

That is a contrast with his father, Yohei Kono, the chief cabinet secretary who authored a landmark apology in 1993 to "comfort women," a euphemism for those forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels.

From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2021

The Tabor Opera House quickly grabbed the attention of a bustling, rowdy city full of competing theaters, saloons and brothels.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2021

He rejected accounts of forced labor as "pure fiction," saying the Japanese army "did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels."

From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2021

Keeley cures, jails, penitentiaries, poorhouses, brothels, cabarets, and insane asylums.

From Treading the Narrow Way by R. E. Barrett