The hooker with a heart of gold (also the whore with a heart of gold or the tart with a heart) is a stock character in which a fallen woman, usually a prostitute who sells sex for cash or drugs, is in fact a kindly and internally wholesome person. This character is often a pivotal, but peripheral, character in literature and motion pictures, usually giving key advice or serving as a go-between. She is sometimes established in contrast to another female character who is morally perfect but frigid or otherwise unyielding. Hookers with hearts of gold are usually reluctant prostitutes selling their bodies due to either desperation or coercion from a pimp. The stereotype might owe something of a debt to certain mistaken traditions surrounding the figure of Mary Magdalene. But this stock character is pervasive enough in many myths and cultures in the form of a tragic story of the concubine who falls in love with her patron/client or, alternatively, young and often poor lover. Therefore, this might be considered not just archetype but also fairly universal, and somewhat indicative of many societies' complex ideas about sexual decency and moral character. Fuck wiki This article is about the fictional spaceship. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The penitent Mary Magdalen, a much reproduced composition by Titian. ...

A variation on the theme, the dancer (stripper) with a heart of gold, is a tamer version of the character. A Stripper is a sex worker but not a prostitute. In old days, social positions of dancers and actresses were low and their moral characters were often considered suspect. An example of this type is played by Nicole Kidman in the film Moulin Rouge!. A striptease dancer performing. ... A sex worker in Germany A sex worker is a person who earns money by providing sexual services. ... Nicole Mary Kidman AC born June 20, 1967, is an Academy Award-winning Australian[1] actress. ... Bold text // Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 Academy Award winning musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann. ...

In opera and musical theatre a hooker with a heart of gold is most often portrayed by a mezzo-soprano. The hooker with a heart of gold is portrayed in a tragic light and often dies a tragic death. A mezzo-soprano (meaning medium soprano in Italian) is a female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above middle C. Mezzo-sopranos generally have a darker (or lower) vocal tone than sopranos, and their vocal range is between that...

In television history, the "tart with a heart" has become an important archetype in serial drama and Soap Opera, especially in Britain. During the 1960s, the character of Elsie Tanner in British series Coronation Street set the mold for future characters such as Bet Lynch (Also Coronation Street) and Kat Slater (EastEnders). Characters of this nature are often depicted as having tragic lives, but put on a front when in public to create the illusion of happiness. More often than not, these female characters are vital to their respective shows, and inevitably become some of the biggest stars in British Television. For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... Elsie Tanner in 1970. ... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV. The programme is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ... Bet Lynch (née Elizabeth Theresa Lynch, previously Gilroy) is a fictional character on the soap opera Coronation Street. ... Kathleen Kat Moon (née Slater) was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[3] and continuing to date. ...

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• List of famous prostitutes and courtesans
• Feminist film theory