Exotic Entertainers' Union

"You're on a right-to-work planet, baby. No Exotic Entertainers' Union here for us girls to pay dues to just so they can tell us what we can't do!"

- Supanovvva, to FN-2187

The Exotic Entertainers' Union (abbreviated as EEU) was a regulatory union for the sex industry, and oversaw a wide purview that included brothels, exotic dancers, and sex workers on Coruscant and elsewhere. Benefiting from a longstanding deal with Black Sun, the EEU nonetheless lacked authority on right-to-work worlds such as Aralia, and worlds like Corellia with local alternatives.

Description
The Union was a powerful organization that regulated and protected brothels, exotic dancers, and sex workers, and took dues from those who worked under its auspices. Prostitutes earned fair credits under the EEU and charged standard rates for their services, ranging from ten-credit spankings to vaginal sex for one-hundred credits or species-specific acts for a further hundred.

The Union had no presence on right-to-work planets like Aralia. It was known to have friends in Black Sun thanks to a long-standing deal between Underlords.

History
The Exotic Entertainers' Union had a longstanding deal with the Underlords of Black Sun, going back to the relationship between Mayli Weng and Prince Xizor. This ensured no disruptions in EEU properties. Ridlian sex workers were known to chafe under EEU rules, and many were left destitute and desperate to earn money.

It was powerful even outside the borders of the New Republic, and maintained regulations and protections for the brothels under its wide purview. Among these were the properties on Coruscant's Melidon Lane. Smaller-scale, unlicensed brothels such as the Traveler's Rest Inn were not included in the Union's purview. It had no presence on Aralia&mdash;and neither did Black Sun&mdash;a fact which the stripper Supanovvva informed FN-2187 of while negotiating a session with him in The Old Hope Imp bar in New Kalbria. The EEU also lacked a local presence on Corellia because of the free-market dictates of the Corellian Council and the beliefs of the current Diktat. Instead, the Corellian Sex Workers' Federation became a local alternative.

In the wake of the death of Han Solo, the EEU declared a day of mourning to commemorate one of its more lucrative single-Human patrons, followed by a day of celebration and two-for-one specials. The establishments on Melidon Lane enjoyed relative calm during this period, allowing Madame Amaixa Foxtrain to reminisce with old friends in the Vibrating Ring.

Behind the scenes
The Exotic Entertainers' Union was introduced in the 1996 Legends novel. It was brought into erotic canon with a reference in Das Flute's 2016 canon erotic fiction "Furlough". It was first mentioned in Legends erotica in "Leia's Motherly Touch Part 2: A Tongue Lashing", by Pyro and Das Flute.