Joygirl
A Joygirl is a term in Imperial Culture for a woman who sells her body for money;[1][2] a prostitute.
Joygirls are often employed in Joy Houses.[1] Some are employed by organised crime, where they are peddled in stables as high-rent joygirls.[4b] Frequent usage of joygirls can sometimes be used by law enforcement to expose bribery or corruption, as happened to freight-dispatcher Kimeon Slalbard who was caught spending three times his normal salary on them and found out to be part of a smuggling ring.[4c]
Members of the Imperial Guard sometimes frequent joygirls when stationed on habited worlds. This can lead to conflict with civilians and infractions necessitating discipline by, as Ciaphas Cain once had to do for one Guardsman Albrin on Kastafore for starting a brawl with civilians over the favours of a joygirl and ordering Albrin to be flogged.[4a]
Various puritanical groups, such as Redemptionists, will take offense to joygirls as they would other deviants. On Adumbria, as the local Arbites were rounding up all the malcontents, the redemptionists shouted denunciations and sang Death to the Deviant at sight of joygirls also being brought in to a nearby cell.[4b]
Known Joygirls
- Alizebeth Bequin - employed as an impoverished joygirl for four years prior to her recruitment by Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn. Her employment was less than successful due to her (at the time) unbeknownst nature as a blank, often repulsing customers despite that what Gregor would observe as her being exceptionally physically attractive[3].
Similar Phenomena
- Lhamaeans are famed among the Dark Eldar as skilled courtesans[5]
See also
Sources
- 1: Rites of Passage (Novel), The Star Lounge
- 2: The Emperor's Finest (Novel) (e-version), Chapter 9 and Chapter 23
- 3: Xenos (Novel) (e-version), Chapter Four
- 4: The Traitor's Hand (Novel) (e-version):
- 5: Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition), pg. 35
