Editing Prostitution (section)

==History==
The [[ironborn]] reavers of old took captured women to be their whores and [[thrall]]s.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Iron Islands}}

According to some tales, [[Coryanne Wylde]] became a camp follower in the [[Disputed Lands]] after following Ser [[Howard Bullock]] to the region.{{ref|FAB|A Surfeit of Rulers}}

In ''[[The Testimony of Mushroom]]'', the [[dwarf]] asserts it was [[Willow Pound-Stone]], a washerwoman in the town of [[Bitterbridge]] during the [[Dance of the Dragons]], who killed Prince [[Maelor Targaryen]] by clutching him so tightly that she broke his back and crushed him to death.{{Ref|FAB|The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant}}

In {{Date|134}}, [[Roggerio Rogare]] opened a [[pleasure house]] called [[Mermaid (pillow house)|Mermaid]] which charged ten times more for his exotic prostitutes, who originated from all across the [[known world]], than common brothels charged for their prostitutes. Despite this, the establishment never lacked for customers, mainly high [[lord]]s, [[knight]]s, and rich merchants, but Roggerio sold it the following year to purchase a great [[Ships#Types of ships - Specifications|cog]] which he named ''[[Mermaid's Daughter]]''.{{Ref|FAB|The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency}}

King [[Baelor I Targaryen]] attempted to outlaw prostitution in King's Landing, resulting in at least a thousand women and children being sent away from the capital.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Baelor I}} King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]] slept with all types of women, including princesses and whores.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV}}

[[Pate (Standfast)|Pate]] liked to talk about the [[camp follower]]s he had known during the [[First Blackfyre Rebellion]] in {{Date|196}}.{{Ref|TSS}} After the War, [[Penny Jenny]], a camp follower who had given birth to Ser [[Quentyn Ball]]'s bastard son [[Glendon Flowers]], came to work in a brothel called the [[Pussywillows]], where Glendon and his sister were raised.{{Ref|TMK}}

Other maesters consider [[Marwyn]] disreputable for keeping company with whores, and other [[lowborn]] of [[Oldtown]].{{Ref|AFFC|Prologue}} [[Obara Sand]] was born to Prince [[Oberyn Martell]] and a prostitute in Oldtown, who insisted that Obara's father was one of the other men she had been with. After Obara chose to go with Oberyn, [[Obara Sand's mother|her mother]] drank herself to death within a year.{{Ref|AFFC|2}}

After the death of Lord [[Tytos Lannister]] in {{Date|267}}, his heir, [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]], forced [[Tytos Lannister's mistress|his father's mistress]] to walk through [[Lannisport]] on a [[walk of atonement]] to show the city she was a whore.{{Ref|ADWD|65}} Tywin later had his elder son, [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], convince his younger son, [[Tyrion Lannister|Tyrion]], that Tyrion's bride [[Tysha]] was a whore. Tywin forced the crofter's daughter to service his [[House Lannister guards|barracks]], who paid with silver, and forced Tyrion to go last and pay with gold.{{Ref|AGOT|42}} Among other reasons, Tywin despises Tyrion for shaming the family name with his frequent whoring.{{Ref|ASOS|32}}

During the expedition against the [[Kingswood Brotherhood]] in {{Date|281}}, [[Merrett Frey]] caught a [[pox]] from a camp follower.{{Ref|ASOS|Epilogue}}

According to [[Leslyn]], [[Bella's mother]] was the favorite prostitute of Lord [[Robert I Baratheon|Robert Baratheon]] at the [[Peach]] when he hid in [[Stoney Sept]] during [[Robert's Rebellion]] in {{Date|283}}; Bella is [[named after]] the [[Battle of the Bells]].{{Ref|ASOS|29}} King [[Robert I Baratheon]] "claimed his rights" frequently during the early years of his marriage with Queen [[Cersei Lannister]],{{ref|AFFC|32}} but over time, Robert came to Cersei's bed less frequently, not even once a year, preferring to lay with whores,{{Ref|AGOT|45}}{{ref|AFFC|32}} with [[Chataya's brothel]] being a favorite of his.{{Ref|ACOK|15}} Due to his frequent whoring, Robert has sired several [[bastards]] during his marriage to Cersei, though he has kept them out of sight.{{Ref|AFFC|36}} King Robert once rejected Stannis's proposal to outlaw brothels.{{Ref|AGOT|27}}