Pimp Controled

A pimp is one who controls the actions and lives off the proceeds of one or more women who work the streets. Pimps call themselves “players” and call their profession “the game.” The context in which this subculture existsis called “the life” (Milner & Milner, 1972). Social scientists of the 1960s and 1970s devoted a significant amount of research energies toward exposing and understanding pimp-controlled prostitution within street-level prostitution (Goines, 1972; Heard, 1968; Milner & Milner, 1972; Slim, 1967, 1969). Street-level prostitution entails sexual acts for money or for barter that occur on and off the streets and include sexual activities in cars and motels, as dancers in gentlemen’s clubs, massage parlor work, truck stops, and crack house work (Williamson, 2000). It represents that segment of the prostitution industry where there is the most violence. Current prostitution-related research on women focuses heavily on the independent woman’s involvement in prostitution (Alexander, 1987; McKeganey & Barnard, 1996; Miller, 1995; Scambler & Scambler, 1997). Parallel to this undertaking isa body of works devoted more specifically to the prostitute’s present involvement with crack cocaine...