play as 'the famous Venetian Curtizan'. See also Related topics Grisette, in France Pilegesh, concubine in Hebrew Prostitute Religious prostitution Sugar baby, contemporary counterpart Sycophant, obedient flatterer Similar professions Almeh, in the Middle East Ca trù, in Vietnam Gē-tòaⁿ, in Taiwan Hetaera, in ancient Greece Kisaeng, in Korea Nagarvadhu, in ancient India Oiran, in historic Japan Qiyān, in the Middle East Shamakhi dancers, in Azerbaijan Yiji, in China References Sources Dalby, Liza. "Geisha, 25th Anniversary Edition, Updated Edition". Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. Print. Gaite, Carmen Martín. Love Customs in Eighteenth-Century Spain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Griffin, Susan (2001). The Book of the Courtesans: a Catalogue of Their Virtues. New York: Broadway Books Hickman, Katie (2003). Courtesans: Money, Sex, and Fame in the Nineteenth Century. New York: HarperCollins Lawner, Lynne (1987). Lives of the Courtesans: Portraits of the Renaissance. New York: Rizzoli Peletz, Michael G. "Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia". Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2007. Print. Rounding, Virginia (2003). Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans. London: Bloomsbury Further reading Martha Feldman, Bonnie Gordon. The courtesan's arts: cross-cultural perspectives. pp. 312–352. Sanjay K. Gautam. Foucault and the Kamasutra: The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. External links "Part VI: Introductory Remarks" Section about courtesans in Kamasutra by Vatsayayana Interpersonal relationships