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

There, the hard-working seven-person cast of “Dark Noon,” which opened on Monday, spends much of the production’s 105 minutes assembling the edifices of westward-creeping American civilization, from home to brothel to church to jail.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

“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

Of course, his Spanish background was essential to his genius: “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” was named after a brothel in Barcelona, and “Guernica” was a response to a fascist atrocity in the Spanish Civil War.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023

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

How did this music surpass its muses from the holds to the plantation to the medicine shows and minstrels and brothels and jukes, to the Grammys red carpet, lavish video shoots and MTV Cribs?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

A South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate a group of women who were forced to work in military brothels during World War Two.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2023

Kono is the son of retired politician and former chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono, who authored a landmark 1993 apology to women forced to work in Japanese military wartime brothels.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2022

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

Jewish fathers took their daughters to brothels for safe hiding.

From The Jew and American Ideals by Spargo, John