Real “lost civilizational technologies” moment here. The ancient Greeks distinguished between the hetairai, prostitutes of legendary beauty, always freedwomen, who charmed men with both wit and beauty, and pornai, brothel prostitutes, usually slave women. The most famous of all hetairai in Ancient Greece, Phryne was fabulously wealthy enough to have financed the walls of Thebes in exchange for her name on the inscription. She was so beautiful that legend says she once avoided charges of blasphemy against the gods by simply stripping naked in front of the jury.
The term “common whore” implies that there also exist uncommon, rare, and legendary whores