Socialator

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Cassiopeia is harassed for being a socialator (Saga of a Star World).

A socialator is a 4,000 yahren old profession sanctified by the "elders," wherein a person obliges the desires of others. In other words, it's a euphemism for prostitute or "space hooker"[1].

Cassiopeia was a socialator prior to the Cylon sneak attack on the Colonies (Saga of a Star World).

Notes

Socialators are "a caste whose function was to entertain and give pleasure to others" and were "skilled in the music and the dance, and could speak with intelligence on nearly any subject".[2]

References

  1. Actress Laurette Spang called her character's original vocation this in Sciography.
  2. Kraus, Bruce (1979). Encyclopedia Galactica, p. 26.