"Pimps don't go away because the internet is gone, and pimps don't go away because you're not allowed on Backpage," Katie said.
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By settling a dispute between residents and pimps, they're essentially protecting the pimps' business from getting disrupted by calls to the cops.
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Instead she tried to defend her pimps and her work.
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They are often the victims of trafficking networks and pimps.
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Pimps use fear to keep their sex slaves in bondage.
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Pimps are texting providers every day saying 'the game's changed.
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Pimps are referred to as managers, and violence is uncommon.
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"Pimps are clever and can avoid some hotels," she said.
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Pimps can be sentenced to up to ten years in prison.
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Set aside the idea that sex workers are exploited by pimps.
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Lori (Emily Meade) and Darlene (Dominique Fishback) both leave their pimps.
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Other times, he's yelling at Lori for bringing up her past pimps.
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It is the traffickers and pimps who get rich, not the victims.
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The parlors doing well also means that the pimps are increasingly obsolete.
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"They see this as an opportunity to essentially be pimps," she says.
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In that way, cult leaders may not be so different from pimps.
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Prostitutes were often involuntarily inscribed with the initials of pimps and lovers.
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Along the way, the pornographers and dealers and pimps take their cut.
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He started hanging out with older gangsters and pimps and con artists.
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They hoped to tackle pimps and to deter imperilled young women from prostitution.
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Munsey: Traffickers or pimps can be a lot of different kinds of people.
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Girls and boys are sold by pimps for sex in every American city.
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I tagged along to hear community leaders, builders, politicians, poverty pimps and plans.
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"We had these girls leaving campus, hooking up with their pimps," he said.
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And now that those sites are down, people are going back to pimps.
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Darlene and Ashley have pimps, so the limits on their freedom are obvious.
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Ms. McAdams first pursued lawsuits against the hotels where pimps set up shop.
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It's a seedy place full of pimps, junkies, dealers, hookers, and general debauchery.
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Pimps, who'd long preyed on sex workers' need for protection, became an endangered species.
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They are to arrest the pimps on whatever charge they can come up with.
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A pair of pimps liken Richard Nixon's Vietnam brinkmanship to their own management style.
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"Fuck all of you who sold Mosul like pimps," Thamer said, stepping down harder.
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Sometimes women were accompanied by older men, who lawyers said they believed were pimps.
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They bristle with pimps and drug dealers and all-American hustlers of every variety.
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No. If a guy pimps a homer for a game-winning shot ... I mean—sorry.
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The other shift that's happening is the pimps are losing their grip on this industry.
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All these different pimps are side-eyeing her, and she's just there speaking her mind.
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He had been giving speeches to the protesters denouncing politicians as "pigs", "pimps" and "dogs".
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Pimps are exploiting and abusing them, and bad clients are taking advantage of the situation.
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According to the interviews, these pimps have become savvier about their listings following the crackdown.
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The pimps would simply place their ads within those lists of those types of services.
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I've done jewelry and grills for pimps and killers and all those types of people.
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And policing strategy would have to change so officers could distinguish pimps from sex traffickers.
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No. If a guy pimps a homer for a game-winning shot... I mean—sorry.
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In the face of violent customers, the pimps can do very little to protect their women.
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It's interesting because we're dealing with pimps and we're dealing with men who are making porn.
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If he couldn't find her, Abby's right there, getting in trouble with all these different pimps.
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I refused to kowtow to trauma pimps concerned with marketing our marginalization over our social advancement.
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These pimps may get help from people the women already know and trust, like a neighbor.
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When she gets too close to the pimps the girl was working for, they threaten her.
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President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world.
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The operation went far beyond just cracking down on a handful of sex traffickers and pimps.
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"Anyone who pimps himself out to the M.E.K. fails the litmus test for integrity," he said.
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She insists that the Black pimps handle just as many Black women as they do white women.
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Demanding transparency from NGOs and charities is crucial to differentiate legitimate causes from "poverty pimps," Higgins said.
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That was where all of the other pimps from the neighborhood were hanging out at the time.
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The new bar—a prototype Hooters—becomes the favoured watering hole for the Deuce's pimps and prostitutes.
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Prostitutes were the first porn stars, and the show is peopled by streetwalkers, pimps, bartenders and mobsters.
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Vincent (also James Franco, but slightly less deranged) solicits the pimps in a barbershop, asking for women.
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But remember — pimps are like Richard Nixon, they do a lot more bluffing than they do protecting.
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Charleston, who lives in Texas, alleges that she was trafficked by two pimps from 1999 through 2009.
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Kirk told the nominee that "liberty on the Internet cannot protect child pimps," according to the memo.
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Facing decommissioning—few pimps are as cruel as corporate bean counters— Westworld's HQ dramatically boosts her aggression.
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To get inside required going undercover, entering the realm of pimps and prostitution and speaking their language.
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They met their future pimps, Mirko Ieni and army corporal Nunzio Pizzacalla, after responding to an ad.
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Many of the women and young girls believe they are in a romantic relationship with their pimps.
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The pimps talk as if they protect and control the women, but this episode proves they do not.
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He cooks delicious food for the characters, and occasionally scolds the pimps for being crude in his restaurant.
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They followed an ad, which led them to their future pimps: Mirko Ieni and army official Nunzio Pizzacalla.
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Do they even need pimps anymore, if they can just work indoors at the so-called "pussy palace"?
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A fresh headache emerged with the arrival of pimps, peep shows and pornography seeping through from Times Square.
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" She was later moved to Las Vegas by her pimps "for greater profits in the illegal sex trade.
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He pimps her out to the highest bidder on their wedding night so they can finance their escape.
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Together with a cadre of like-minded weirdos, the group presented themselves as futuristically flamboyant bizarro-world pimps.
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The early success of Schroeder's task force is contingent on getting the girls to testify against their pimps.
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For these reasons, getting women to testify against their pimps has proven itself to be no simple task.
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Some are brought to Tijuana by pimps from Tlaxcala, a small state in central Mexico notorious for sex traffickers.
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Seven of Beauty's friends slipped back into prostitution out of fear of their pimps, or loyalty, the teenager said.
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Women of all types stalked the streets and made cash for their pimps, who also came in all kinds.
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For an HBO show including pimps, prostitution, and a descent into pornography, The Deuce is surprisingly empowering to women.
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Candy isn't sick of the streets yet, but she's sick of the pimps begging her to work for them.
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Meanwhile, C.C., the villain of the pimps, spends his days both terrorizing and protecting new girl Lori (Emily Meade).
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"Looks like a school bus for 6-year-old pimps," Nacho sniffs, refusing to even drive the vehicle away.
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They followed an ad, which eventually connected them to their future pimps: Mirko Ieni and army official Nunzio Pizzacalla.
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There are beautiful bodies aplenty, lesbian pimps, eerie faucet drips, and leather-clad killers in the most literal sense.
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Pimps and traffickers are known to mark their victims with branding irons to show their control, trafficking experts say.
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The first, which Buffini described as "London's guide to whoring," was written by patrons and pimps from 1757-1795.
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The girls alleged Backpage's rules were intended to instruct pimps how to post trafficking ads that evade law enforcement.
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Hooker comedies like Night Shift and Risky Business, which feature men becoming pimps for kicks, came a decade later.
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Traffickers and pimps lure children in foster care, homeless teens, trans teens and others who are vulnerable, she said.
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Instead, it has forced sex workers to once again rely on abusive pimps and put themselves into unnecessary danger.
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My job handles more of the policy side, such as coordinating efforts to bring down pimps, traffickers, and johns.
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That's due in part to the fact that most of the pimps, bars, and clubs are aligned against the Magdalenas.
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He said shifting the criminal charge from victim to the client would make France less attractive for pimps and traffickers.
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There's so many pimps around, so many other girls, this is not the time and place to talk about it.
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The important pimps in this show are as follows: Reggie Love, C.C., Rodney (Method Man), and Larry Brown (Gbenga Akinnagbe).
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He said he realizes that it's a cocktail of addiction, pimps, and poverty that forces many women onto the streets.
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"First of all, it's a good risk management tool, because pimps might be trying to use their properties," Smolenski explains.
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Mr. Koch was once faulted for calling some community advocates "poverty pimps" after they were accused of abusing public funding.
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But, lo and behold, in 1900, only 165 pimps were sentenced while 7,415 women were convicted under the solicitation laws.
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The bar was a watering hole for artists, prostitutes, pimps, drunks and whoever else might have walked in that night.
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But it's not enough to send a few pimps to prison; we should also go after online marketplaces like Backpage.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Candy, a sassy, independent prostitute who roams Times Square and rejects the solicitation of money-hungry pimps.
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Nobody approves of anyone being the subject of sexual trafficking by pimps and others who abuse young boys and girls.
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As Motherboard reported in April, pimps began to exploit and abuse sex workers, taking advantage of the uncertainty the legislation created.
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The pimps — Larry, Rodney (Clint "Method Man" Smith), and Reggie Love (Tariq Trotter) — head to Vincent, driven by the police crackdown.
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Maybe law abiding citizens are sick and tired of all the rights given to rapists, murderers, pimps, thugs, and General ****tards.
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" The Rock, his rubbery face contorting into a pained smile, intones his mantra: "I'm a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide.
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They're in the skin trade, but they're not like the pimps who control their women through mind games and physical threats.
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Girls have told us they heard about the bill for the first time from their pimps, who were excited about it.
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Pimps wouldn't want the women working for them to think they could just leave at any time for a better life.
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But she also said she had been in love with some of her pimps, most of them men, one a woman.
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Martinez tells her that there could even be pimps holding young women in those tents, but the city refuses to do anything.
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When I read about girls being trafficked, a lot of them were scared that their pimps would be able to find them.
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In the same interview, Harris stated that she advocates for the arrest of "the johns and the pimps" rather than sex workers.
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Most of the women Dunnings allegedly had sex with were beaten by their pimps and addicted to heroin, according to arresting documents.
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There are five pimps and more than a dozen street prostitutes, from Thunder Thighs to Lori, a canny newcomer from the Midwest.
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Charles Manson was a skilled recruiter, having gleaned his techniques in prison from a Dale Carnegie course, from Scientologists and from pimps.
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Even today, Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to get funding for women's shelters or to prosecute pimps. 12.
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"Playaz Ball," featuring Rick Ross, is a smooth ode to the annual gathering held for pimps on the West side of Chicago.
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The site recently came under pressure to shut down, and federal authorities are still monitoring the site to catch traffickers and pimps.
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The slow-mo continues as the streetwalkers are rounded up into paddy wagons and the pimps watch their cars being towed away.
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If pimps and sex buyers are on the same side of this legislative proposal, doesn't that say something to the other supporters?
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Several have called the male hosts on Misscliks "pimps," or have said how lucky they are to have a "harem" of colleagues.
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A devastating new subcommittee report shows that the company protects pimps from their carelessness by deleting hints that a girl is underage.
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Then, when interviewing potential clients, she noticed a common thread: Almost all the girls had met their pimps on Facebook or Instagram.
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Another argument could be made: Those pimps—most of them poor, black, and disenfranchised—are maintaining their position in a rigged game.
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Crisp was taken to different cities and countries and sold to friends and pimps, and this is just the beginning of her story.
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Some activists said shifting the criminal charge from victim to the client would make countries like France less attractive for pimps and traffickers.
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This actually increases trafficking by creating opportunities for pimps and abusive managers to prey on displaced workers suddenly denied their main income stream.
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Others are afraid of being deported home or criminalized for being in the possession of fake papers arranged by their pimps, campaigners say.
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The cast of characters he meets includes con artists, pimps, and Israeli intelligence agents—or at least, people who claim to be, online.
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Unlike in Manila and most of the Philippines, here there are no pimps present, and the women are not darting from the police.
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The artist cites JAY-Z's "Ladies is pimps too" line from 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder' as the inspiration for her newly released single.
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Pimps have also started going back to Craigslist and responding to people who post that they're seeking romantic encounters to recruit potential clients.
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In that regard, officers are trained in how to deal sensitively with victims and how to spot pimps and prostitution in social media.
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She has been able to clock out and do good work on behalf of streetwalkers who face arrests, venereal disease and abusive pimps.
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She listened to former prostitutes describe the gifts and affection their pimps offered, only to turn abusive later, and she felt a connection.
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Vincent's bar is home base for a vast demimonde ensemble: mobsters, cops, pimps, pornographers, construction workers, streetwalkers and the post-Stonewall gay community.
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More countries should follow the Nordic model of decriminalizing the people who are sold for sex but criminalizing pimps and buyers, she said.
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Law enforcement officials say pimps are often also sex traffickers who force women and girls into prostitution through intimidation and violence, including kidnapping.
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In 2017, the police in Washington made 216 prostitution-related arrests, which includes crimes committed by prostitutes and pimps, according to police data.
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" A post the following day says: "3am and can't sleep with these junkies winos pimps and whores bothering me in my car all night!
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Lined with pimps, prostitutes, brothels, strip clubs, and apparently cab drivers, it was a neighbourhood that employed every kind of night shift worker imaginable.
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Meanwhile pimps and traffickers are sitting back and enjoying how the sudden panic and desperation has created a new group of people to exploit.
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It is true that Backpage and other sites like it have been used by pimps and others engaged in forced or coerced sexual activities.
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For the next 13 years, Nina had 20 different pimps who advertised her for sex on the internet and abused her verbally and physically.
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With Salesforce's guidance, Backpage was able to use Salesforce's tools to market to new "users" — that is, pimps, johns, and traffickers — on three continents.
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The pimps, brothel owners and traffickers who buy and sell other people's bodies are the force trying to decriminalize the entire global sex industry.
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Together, the measures represent a shift in prosecutions away from children and young women and toward the pimps and criminal enterprises running the industry.
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She took up the offer—a moment that would unfold into 15 years of mental and physical abuse and isolation, with several different pimps.
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As law enforcement, this catch-and-release ritual seems to accomplish little more than irritating the pimps, who have surely budgeted for it anyway.
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We also need local police departments and prosecutors to go after pimps and johns, rather than sometimes targeting the children who are the victims.
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The IOM's Margherita Limoni agreed that the strong spiritual and psychological grip of Nigerian pimps, madams and traffickers makes it harder to support the victims.
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She became the first trafficking victim in Argentina to take her pimps and authorities to court, filing a simultaneous civil and criminal lawsuit against them.
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Bryce certainly doesn't not pimp his homers; instead he pimps them The Right Way, and has made polite-pimping into an art form of sorts.
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Targeting clients and pimps, the law penalizes the buying of sex, the advertising of sexual services, and the profiting off of someone else's sexual interactions.
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They kiss their pimps on the cheek, and Candy kissed Jack (Will Chase) once upon a time, but for the most part, they get fucked.
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Defendant Mark O. Porter, 59, unleashed a diatribe describing African-Americans as "pimps" and "drug dealers" during his sentencing hearing Thursday, the Deseret News reported .
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"Pimps don't accept the rationale that there's a new law and fewer johns now," Paul Holmes, a counter-trafficking expert, told The New York Times.
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Although brutal, even murderous, when dealing with pimps and drug dealers, on some sad cases, this decent, complicated man feels bad taking a client's money.
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Because many of these women were poor, and some had problems with pimps or addiction, they made deals with prosecutors rather than try to fight.
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Some students complained that the class was a form of sexual harassment because it involved exercises in which teaching assistants role-played pimps and prostitutes.
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I don't want to be a part of the human race when I see the pimps in government and the whores who do their bidding.
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Pimps are considered arbiters of prostitution, and the current laws target any adult who facilitates prostitution—romantic partners, prostitutes working together for safety reasons, etc.
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A lengthy scene in which Nicky alternately abuses and pimps out his vulnerable girlfriend (Carol Grace, then married to Walter Matthau) is excruciating to watch.
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The pimps and madams often give the underage girls hormones like oxytocin or oradexon (cow steroids) so they'll develop curves and bring in more customers.
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He has kicked out of his center pimps who tried to recruit the women, but he said the local police cared only about potential radicals.
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Speaking to reporters in Washington last week, advocates said many people don't consider how decriminalizing sex work can end up legitimizing pimps and brothel operators.
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The song is sheer power personified, flipping gender stereotypes by repurposing a lyric coined by controlling pimps, typically used by men in sexist revenge fantasies.
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The targets that have earned the Russian's ire are extensive—they include pimps, gambling rings and drug dealers—but Datsik omits thieves from his list.
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Read: Trafficked women tattooed by their pimps Redsky says the history of racism against indigenous Canadians feeds into the cycle of violence and exploitation against them.
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On The Deuce, pimps play a game of finding doe-eyed, lonely young women in New York City transit centers and manipulating them into sex work.
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In recent years, Costa Rican police have worked to break up organized trafficking groups and pimps who take advantage of sex migrants and child sex workers.
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Last month, the popular pastor denounced what he called "pulpit pimps" before inviting churchgoers to take money from the collection plate, according to the Charlotte Observer.
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While authorities do use existing laws to prosecute pimps, brothel managers and traffickers, customers who assault children trafficked into sexual slavery are rarely arrested, Krishnan said.
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An extension of a project Mark began in the early 80s, these photographs document pimps, prostitutes, vagrants, and drug users and pushers in the Seattle area.
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Anti-prostitution feminists hone in on abuse by so-called pimps and punters while overlooking—or tactically supporting—similar abuses by police, landlords, and immigration officers.
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And because many young prostitutes are runaways from the foster care system, they fear being sent to a group home if taken away from their pimps.
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None of this is to claim that violent, stereotypical pimps aren't also out there — but again, the current approach fails the victims of many of these criminals.
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Even the cars are vulnerable; if the police can't get the pimps on a drug charge, they can accuse them of parking violations, and tow their cars.
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Over the next two decades, The Coup put out five more albums, with ballads about pimps named Jesus and musings on ways to murder high-powered execs.
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If the people who believe in the quantity theory of crime were right, that would make no sense—the drug dealers would have transferred to being pimps.
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From life imprisonment for human traffickers to forcing pimps to pay compensation to their victims, Britain now has some of the world's toughest sanctions against modern slavery.
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As for the pimps, they each have a managerial style based on some combination of seduction and intimidation, all carefully calibrated to keep their women in line.
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The pimps have had their relevance challenged repeatedly, from activists who escort their women to the bus depot to porn stars like Lori, who seek better representation.
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The clear losers in this scenario, at least financially, are the pimps, who have suddenly been reduced to middle men in a business where they're essentially superfluous.
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"If the issue people have about pimps is that they are benefiting from other people's labor, don't they have managers who do that at McDonald's?" she asked.
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He'd spent years protecting drug dealers and pimps in Coney Island, before working security at bars across the city gave him a chance at a better life.
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During an interview, she spoke matter-of-factly about the last four years, recounting the threat of violence from both pimps and the men who buy her.
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Since then, she said, she had been conditioned — through beatings, gang rapes and other violence — to please her pimps, many of whom found her by perusing Backpage.
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I support efforts to decriminalize prostitution, but I do not support any idea, bill, or proposal that would let pimps, johns, and the exploiters off the hook.
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There's a crunchy '90s feeling to the song, partly invoked by the synths mimicking chimes, and partly coming from those beats that give me serious Sneaker Pimps flashbacks.
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On July 240rd lawmakers in the Netherlands, where prostitution is legal and highly visible, are to start discussing such a law, as well as whether to ban pimps.
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I'd...felt I'd made some kind of difference, even feeling like a friend to women whose pimps didn't allow such associations or friendships, but finding her changed something.
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The eight-limbed teenager is the current Rajadamnern Stadium champion at 24llbs and a stud much feted by the fat pimps and ringside potatoes of Thailand's kickboxing establishment.
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America's human trafficking 'hubs' Pimps will often lure women from Mexico across the border to the US by promising them better lives, perhaps a better job, Alvarez said.
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On this episode of Daily VICE, we meet a survivor of sex trafficking who explains why pimps often brand women with specific tattoos as a sign of ownership.
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"Since this stupid bill, I've had at least 20 pimps contacting me telling me to come work for them because they can promise me clients," she tells Broadly.
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He also sought the advice of other career criminals, including pimps who taught him techniques for successfully coercing and breaking down the resistance of women under his control.
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We need Congress to amend the Communications Decency Act to clarify that companies like Backpage don't get protections when they permit pimps to sell kids on their websites.
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It tells the harrowing story of real American girls enslaved through ads on Backpage and their unsuccessful lawsuit against the company for knowingly hosting their pimps and buyers.
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This, in effect, coached customers — including pimps selling the services of children — on how to clean up their posts to avoid alerting law enforcement to their illegal activities.
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And he sought the advice of other career criminals, including pimps who taught him techniques for successfully coercing and breaking down the resistance of women under his control.
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While the women are resisting their pimps, and Vince is providing a safe haven for the oppressed of the city, Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli) is getting into sex work.
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She also turned heads for a tweet claiming Trump "has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world…" She then deleted the controversial post.
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According to Motherboard, pimps have already started to take advantage of the legislation by exploiting and abusing sex workers who are having trouble working independently without sites like Backpage.
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"Nobody makes money off of my pussy but me," Eileen laughs when one of the pimps, Rodney (Method Man), tries to recruit her with promises of a better life.
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In short, the sex trade thrives because traffickers, pimps, and clients -- mostly men -- exploit vulnerable women and underage girls (as well as a smaller number of men and boys).
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"It all started when I got hired to be a personal chef for local pimps while living in Las Vegas," Malachi "Spankihanas" Jenkins tells me in his living room.
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So authorities turned their attention there, and last year, more than 1000 pimps and johns were arrested during a months-long prostitution sting that targeted ads placed on Backpage.com.
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The script, by George Pelecanos and Richard Price, emphasizes the familiarity between pimps and prostitutes and the cops tasked with doing collars on Times Square and the surrounding areas.
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Or when the gangsta rappers, and Oscar nominees, Three 6 Mafia, sang about pimps and hoes before the black-tie audience, hardly their usual crowd, and then, fantastically, won.
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"The Deuce" isn't the type of show to make uncomplicated villains out of anyone, but this final episode quiets the violins over the marginalization of the Times Square pimps.
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" At the end of March, a now-deleted post from Ms. Barr read: "President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world.
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Her father pimps her out to workers and local pols, but she fights off the men who want her—though not, we are given to understand, all of them.
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Syphilis has led them to members of 17 gangs; to drug dealers; to prostitutes, pimps and johns; and to their spouses and lovers, all caught in the disease's undertow.
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At 16, she was placed in the custody of Awaken, a Christian nonprofit organization that works to end sexual exploitation, but she repeatedly ran away to return to pimps.
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Thousands of children largely from poor rural families are lured or abducted by traffickers every year in India, and sold onto pimps and brothels who force them into sexual slavery.
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We explained that workers using the internet could cut out middlemen (or pimps) and tend to their own safety, creating internet blacklists and even complex screening databases and matching systems.
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While Backpage has reported some potential victims to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and law enforcement, its screening practices assisted advertisers, including pimps, but not law enforcement.
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When Jerry Love confides that he'd like to add a "Chinese hoe" to his "herd" (*rolls eyes* pimps are so corny) this, too, is loaded with the politics of desirability.
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Mr. Quinn also understands the folly of ignoring the problems of the old New York, joking about how pimps were lined up in front of Port Authority like Citi Bikes.
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Their "punishment" beatings and shootings of drug-dealers, pimps and loan-sharks purport to be for the protection of "their" communities, but often they simply want the business for themselves.
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In her experience, "Gorilla" pimps, as she called them, often stage some kind of initiation for new recruits, which could be anything from a public humiliation to a gang rape.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From life imprisonment for human traffickers to forcing pimps to pay compensation to their victims, Britain has some of the world's toughest sanctions against modern slavery.
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"We recognize that harm can occur in sex work, but to characterize the sex-workers' rights movement as a front for pimps is really shocking," Catherine Murphy of Amnesty says.
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The pimps, who are black, with the exception of one goofball hippie, consider themselves bully philosophers, and brag about plucking "product," of every race, from the Port Authority bus station.
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"Normally only the pimps get picked up but this time everyone involved in buying, selling and reselling of these girls has been found guilty," Ramsingh told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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With its frequently rotating sets, roving cameras and a cast that looked (and behaved) like pimps and streetwalkers, the "Ring" presented by Mr. Castorf was a distillation of his style.
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" He struck a moralistic tone in criticizing Ms. Clifford for working in porn, and when her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, pushed back, Mr. Giuliani said: "I don't get involved with pimps.
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Near those roasted meat tacos, there is an endless perverted party: pushers, prostitutes, drag queens, deported pimps, addicts, and the main customers: the horny gringos that pay in $1 bills.
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He never abuses the one woman who works for him and actually seems to value her as a person, a laid-back approach that earns him scorn from the other pimps.
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Pornography also takes power away from the pimps; it's downright painful to watch C.C. (Gary Carr) lash out when Lori (Emily Meade) takes a gig in a movie without his permission.
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As arrests dropped, so did violence by the police, pimps and clients, along with the H.I.V. rate, according to a study last year in The Journal of the International AIDS Society.
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"Poncho was one of the most violent pimps I've come across in the 12.53 years I've worked human trafficking," said Edwin Chapuseaux, a former investigator with the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
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Lori, Darlene, and other women who work with pimps often suffer violent, horrifying punishment if they do not perform—one aspect of The Deuce that is brutal and hard to watch.
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Prostitution abolitionists say most are victims of human trafficking and have been lured, duped or forced into sexual slavery by pimps and traffickers, largely due to their poor socio-economic status.
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He starts selling drugs to upperclassmen at Zeke's request, first at a "pimps and hos" party, where, among the flashy costumes, he appears in his father's bathrobe with a gold chain.
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Detective Samaniego told her employers at the brothel about the investigation, and her pimps told her what to say to prosecutors to deter them from pursuing the case, Mr. Chain said.
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Of A Kind As a teenager on the streets in the early 1970s, artist David Wojnarowicz frequented the then-seedy blocks around Times Square, hustling among junkies, drug dealers and pimps.
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His years wearing a badge in Brooklyn, the police said, would prove to be on-the-job training for a second career as a purveyor of prostitutes and protector of pimps.
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The producer is paying her $10,000 to accept the message that he's in control, which is the message she implicitly rejected all those years by not allowing pimps to represent her.
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The HBO series, which just concluded its first season, examines the sex trade in 1970s New York City, but it does so through the eyes of professionals—sex workers and their pimps.
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At the end of night, the women turn all their earnings over to their pimps; keeping any of their hard-earned cash for themselves is a quick way to get a beating.
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Lead character Eileen "Candy" Merrell (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a sex worker who's savvy enough to work on her own and protect herself, free of any pimps managing her time or cash flow.
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Obviously, Rodney has one blind spot during his hard sell to Candy: pimps can barely protect "their girls," as they continuously, and uncomfortably, refer to the women they control, abuse, and exploit.
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The result is a renaissance in dangerous street prostitution, with much higher levels of violence and victimisation, and a new golden-age for pimps, whose "protection services" are once again in demand.
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Before sex work moved online, if a person wanted to avoid walking the streets, they needed access to essential safety resources that were largely mediated by third parties like agencies and pimps.
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One of the most fascinating aspects of "The Deuce" is its depiction of how that sphere was changing; among the city's pimps, there is a dawning awareness that their heyday is over.
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Backpage and other advertising sites allowed sex workers to be financially independent and find and screen work for themselves, off the streets and away from actual traffickers or abusive "managers" and pimps.
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Inspired by the Neo-Impressionism, his early Paris paintings include leering portraits of hookers and pimps, like "The Guy" (21923), evocative of a Henri Toulouse-Lautrec painting, but with a looser luminosity.
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Campaigners say thousands of children largely from poor rural families are lured or abducted by traffickers every year in India, and sold onto pimps and brothels who force them into sexual slavery.
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" Rachel Moran, author of the recent memoir "Paid For," who calls herself a survivor of prostitution in Ireland, also says that "Amnesty International has taken their views directly from pimps and traffickers.
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Human traffickers, pimps and brothel owners were among those convicted by a district court in Ballari on Tuesday, according to prosecutor Rathod Ramsingh, who said he hoped the verdict would deter others.
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Mr. Rush's performance as the selfish, self-doubting genius is never less than diverting, and there's a smidgen of excitement when Caroline's pimps wreck the studio (though honestly it's hard to tell).
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Right after, my phone starts ringing again, and it's one of the guys (pimps, I assume) saying that if they are to get out sooner than agreed, they'd need their money back.
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The average rate is 300 rupees ($5), but the women will be lucky if they see a fifth of the fee — many are trapped in lifelong debt to their owners and pimps.
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The decriminalization bills offered by lawmakers in Massachusetts and Maine would create systems something akin to the "Nordic Model," eliminating criminal penalties for prostitutes, but continuing to criminalize sex buyers and pimps.
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As rise of the parlors and the peep shows has empowered gangsters and corrupt cops, the pimps have turned into ineffectual middle men, glorified chauffeurs who are still demanding their nightly cut.
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It was a story told again and again about heroic cops and depraved men, girls for sale in plain sight, pimps in grocery store parking lots, a monotonous evening news moral panic.
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Kamala Harris supports legalizing sex work, which she discussed with the website The Root, complaining that current law ends up hurting women more than johns and pimps who can benefit from prostitution.
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Ms. McAdams argues that, in the case of pimps using Facebook and Instagram to lure children, separate laws require Facebook to warn users of that risk and do more to prevent it.
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More important, though, is that seeing Dorothy's murder would also have meant seeing her killer, which isn't as powerful as the idea that all of the pimps are culpable in her death.
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As the series goes on, the three small business owners allow cops, pimps, and mob bosses to traffic women throughout their establishments—all while they return home to their wives and girlfriends.
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The number of Nigerian women arriving in Italy is accelerating - complicating the task of law enforcement agencies determined to keep tabs on the location of pimps or their female brokers known as "madams".
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Conor and Floyd ain't the only ones looking to make HUGE bank on August 26 -- the pimps and the hoes are projecting "crazy money" in Vegas that weekend ... so says Don "Magic" Juan.
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The practice was a boon to drug cartels, local drug gangs, and pimps, which targeted the deportees for kidnappings and being forced into prostitution, particularly in border towns that cater to US tourists.
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If your daddy's a preacher and you're looking for a pimped-out outfit for him they also own another store that all the pimps and the preachers go to called Brite Creations [laughs].
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Through what the bill calls "protection orders," victims, their families (if the victim is underage), and/or authorities would be able to go after "pimps" and "providers" for both criminal and punitive damages.
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"I was advocating [15 years ago] that we have to stop arresting these prostitutes and start going after the johns and the pimps, because we were criminalizing the women," Harris told The Root.
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You say that you're "exposing" the johns and pimps—do you at all regret that your drone footage played a part in a sex worker, Zolicoffer, being sentenced to a year in prison?
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" Ms. Curti, whose Facebook page is peppered with posts expressing rage at the killing of Ms. Mastropietro in Macerata and admiration for Mussolini, screamed that the students and activists were "filthy" and "pimps.
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He called Clement Greenberg "a small and lecherous man," and in general, thought critics were arrogant and stupid "pimps" — a quote hammily and hilariously read aloud by New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz.
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" A few days earlier, Mr. Giuliani gave an interview to Business Insider, explaining that he had declined Mr. Avenatti's invitation to debate because, as he put it, "I don't get involved with pimps.
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The "sex-positive" feminists who worried about restrictions on free speech and questioned the condemnation of all pornographic material found themselves labeled, by anti-pornography feminists, as shills and pimps for the industry.
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We're told law enforcement will be coordinating raids and undercover stings -- along with normal patrols of areas known for sex trafficking -- in order to take down pimps and johns engaging in illegal activity.
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All future ten digit pimps listen up ... Mark Cuban is about to tell you the how you shop for food when you have too much money to worry about normie stores (sorry Serena).
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In one of the opening scenes, Jerry Love (Tariq 'Black Thought' Trotter from The Roots) and C.C. (Gary Carr), two pimps, are at a bus station scouting out women to potentially work for them.
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The most consequential of these myths is that no one chooses sex work, and most are pushed into it by abusive pimps — each common beliefs among many who seek to further criminalize the industry.
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The Deuce takes place in Times Square in the early '70s, but it's pretty much the same mix of characters we see in this scene in Across the Universe: outcasts, pimps, and sex workers.
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Law enforcement often tries to arrest and prosecute family members of sex workers, calling them pimps and panderers, and politicians have tried to push bills to make the definition of pandering even more broad.
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In fact, the left in America — or, as I call them, the "poverty pimps" — and the failed war on poverty, given a fair look across America regardless of ethnicity and locality, supports this assertion.
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During my search, I ignored listings on BackPage (too many pimps) and Eros (too forward for what I was trying to accomplish), and focused on personally created websites, looking for independent freelancers like me.
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She had lost her ID and had no way to fly home, so she was fending for herself, middle-manning or dealing in order to use, stuck under the thumb of dealers and pimps.
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Ms. McAdams argues that, in the case of pimps using Facebook and Instagram to lure children into prostitution, separate laws require Facebook to warn users of that risk and do more to prevent it.
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Campaigners also point out that authorities rarely target people who pay pimps and brothel managers to have sex with enslaved workers, and they say the new legislation is not stringent enough on such customers.
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Dean Heller are also pushing legislation to cut off access to federally funded housing assistance to people convicted of sex trafficking — which often includes sex workers engaged in consensual transactions, not just pimps and traffickers.
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The girls, the oldest of whom was 15, sued Backpage for claims including sexual exploitation of children, alleging its posting rules were intended to instruct pimps how to post trafficking ads that evade law enforcement.
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The girls, the oldest of whom was 15, sued Backpage for claims, including sexual exploitation of children, alleging its posting rules were intended to instruct pimps how to post trafficking ads that evade law enforcement.
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Based on a true story, it stars Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore, a pioneer of the '70s Black action genre that was known for mobsters, pimps, and classic female crime fighters like Foxy Brown.
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There's impending tragedy, too, in Dorothy's quixotic mission to rescue women from the pimps, to the point where she is unwilling to consider the danger of her provocations or the counterproductive nature of her tactics.
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An Illinois-based punk rock band has agreed to stop calling itself the Good Year Pimps as part of a settlement with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, according to a court document filed on Thursday.
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The band, which also goes by The Pimps, stipulated that it infringed Goodyear's trademarks on its name and logo and agreed to remove references to the brand from promotional materials and websites within 30 days.
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"Local girls that are working locally with local pimps will be using local photos, the majority of the time," Sergeant Adam Kavanaugh, supervisor of the St. Louis County Multi-Jurisdictional Human Trafficking Task Force, tells CNN.
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The first episode of the series documents a handful of street-based sex workers in '70s Times Square, pimps interested in profiting off of them, and the local businesses/business owners that interact with them daily.
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Even before the passing of these bills, sex workers overwhelmingly warned that they would do more harm than good; and now, sex workers are reporting the devastating effects, like being forced to return to dangerous pimps.
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Activists say in the wake of FOSTA's passage, they've seen an increase in sex workers turning to street-level work, putting them at heightened risk of violence from bad clients and pimps seeking to exploit them.
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What it will probably do, though, is push sex workers further underground, as well as the websites where pimps posted ads (that could be used by law enforcement to find traffickers) even deeper into the shadows.
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He says it's not uncommon for girls and young women to be tricked by recruiters who pose as boyfriends, then deliver them to "guerilla" pimps who lure them into the sordid, often brutal world of prostitution.
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Black men at the time were portrayed as everything from savages with very hard heads and no communication skills, to pimps, to a white guy claiming to be from "Deepest Darkest Africa," to de facto slaves.
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In our research on programs serving minor victims of human trafficking, for instance, we compiled case histories in which traffickers (otherwise known as boyfriends, pimps or facilitators) were the "least worst" option available to young people.
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But they want to continue using the criminal law as a weapon of moral disapproval by prosecuting male customers, alongside pimps and traffickers — though this approach still tends to entangle sex workers in a legal net.
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Still, the day was mostly devoted to airing ominous warnings that if Decrim NY were to prevail, "pimps" and "traffickers" would open brothels in the city—one speaker suggested New York's tony new Hudson Yards development.
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The moral squalor of the sex business is evident everywhere on the show — the prostitutes opportunistically herded into police wagons, beaten up or sliced by pimps and underpaid for their work, if they're paid at all.
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The program's participants on average were first sexually exploited at the age of 14 — which should remind us that we need more help for vulnerable children, and less impunity for pimps and johns who exploit them.
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Sonia Ossorio, president of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, said the decriminalization effort, if successful, would effectively set up a new industry and give legitimacy to existing brothels and pimps.
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I could very well argue that the villains of The Deuce—set in the sex trade of 1970s Times Square—are its pimps, who push, sell, and collect on the bodies of the women they manipulate.
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Though an angry mob smashed in the windows of her hotel and pimps slung cow dung at her at public meetings, Butler's campaign was successful in pushing one burden of criminality away from women selling sex.
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"The goal became rescuing women from their pimps and redirecting their lives, reducing prostitution one life at a time," Steve Marcin, an Orange County police lieutenant wrote in a 2013 article for FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.
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Making matters worse, most refugees in Italy are unable to obtain work permits, so many of them end up working illegally in agriculture, or as petty drug pushers, pimps, or prostitutes in piazzas and urban train stations.
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The most obvious sources of exploitation are the pimps, who hang around train stations looking for fresh-faced girls arriving in the big city, and then break them down psychologically and physically until they're obedient and codependent.
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Later, when cops drive the sex workers off the streets and into brothels where the police can take a cut of their profits, the pimps realize that their cushy managerial positions are in danger of being downsized.
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Read: Women being branded by pimps In 2012, the President issued an Executive Order strengthening protections against trafficking related activities in federal contracts, such as forbidding contractors from charging recruitment fees to workers and confiscating identification documents.
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READ MORE: The Mexican town where boys are groomed to become pimps But no modeling jobs ever materialized, no auditions were set up, and she was instead informed she must report to a member's club in Tokyo.
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Backpage pleads guilty to sex trafficking, CEO faces up to 5 years for money laundering "We used to look at Backpage as a trap for human traffickers and pimps," explained undercover vice investigator John Daggy to RTV6.
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The women on patrol change tack now, and walk along the narrow alleys quietly, keeping an eye out for newcomers, stopping only for a quick word with pimps to ensure they are following the rules of Sonagachi.
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D.M.S.C. has enabled "the sex industry to attract millions of dollars from the Gates Foundation," creating "a big new source of income for brothel owners, pimps and traffickers," she wrote in the newspaper The Hindu in 20083.
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" Or, as one Boston-based UberX driver wrote on an Uber People thread titled "Crazy Riders": "Hookers, pimps, and dealers have been using taxis for 400 years, is it really surprising that they'd use Uber as well?
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The episode returns thoughtfully to the question of how much control the pimps continue to have over their women and their territory now that the parlors and the peeps have done so much to loosen their grip.
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At the end of Season 1, the pimps were all hurtling toward irrelevance because of coordinated efforts by the police and gangsters to push the streetwalkers off Times Square and into mob-controlled peep shows and brothels.
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The pimps may be feeling marginalized, but otherwise, everyone is making money: the bars, the parlors, the peeps and the studio, not to mention the mobsters backing them and the cops paid to look the other way.
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They say that only when every aspect of prostitution among consenting adults is made legal will prostitutes feel secure enough to report criminal activity, including coercion and abuse by pimps or sex buyers, without fear of arrest.
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Ms. Spellman, who says she does not have a pimp and handles her own business affairs, said pimps and managers serve a vital role — from providing security and transportation to arranging appointments and dealing with child care.
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Many of the organizations that oppose decriminalizing pimps and johns support variations of what is known as the Nordic model, in which sex workers do not face criminal charges, and are instead offered social services, including housing.
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" In his 2006 memoir, Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends, Leguizamo wrote about Miller and their time on Carlito's Way, saying, "You really have to know Penelope Ann Miller to dislike her.
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Throughout the course of the series, Chuck does many terrible things — he famously pimps Blair out to his uncle in exchange for a hotel, to name his most diabolical — but we're always supposed to root for his redemption.
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Although the show doesn't make the pimps into cackling villains, it's difficult to see the them as anything besides abusive middlemen profiting off of other people's work—an arrangement that may look intimately familiar to many corporate employees.
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This story of Indianapolis cops reverting to pre-web tactics for catching pimps and others in the sex trade shows how the closure has taken away a valuable tool for keeping tabs on the unsavory but ineradicable industry.
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Especially when it comes to the prostitutes, the johns and the pimps, we did want to be diverse and have a variety of people, and not have the same kind of person that's chosen to do sex work.
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"Ragtag collections of prostitutes and pimps, drug addicts and sundry urban nighthawks, the people who populate his plays were unusual theatrical subjects in their day, but were no less sympathetic for that," the Times obit said of Wilson.
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For 26-year-old Pernille, what was supposed to be a fun adventure through Southeast Asia turned into a thriller featuring a Czech sex worker, threatening pimps, and more cum-stained paper towels than the mind can fathom.
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"It's amazing that she becomes this normal adult who hangs out with Rachel and sips coffee, when, as a teenager, she seemed to be this other human who was hanging out with pimps and mugging people," Saltz says.
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"They say we walked into gijichon on our own, but we were cheated by job-placement agencies and were held in debt to pimps," Park Young-ja, 62, one of the plaintiffs, said after the ruling on Friday.
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What happened to the 16-year-old girl in Atlantic City is a cancer that is metastasizing across the country: Violent pimps and sex traffickers use online services like Backpage to exploit and profit off of unwilling victims.
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Come children, back to the seedy streets of Times Square in the '70s, where prostitutes, pimps, and johns formed a rich (and illegal) economic ecosystem, and where tourists walked briskly past peep shows on their way to Broadway theaters.
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Soho, that last bastion of bacchanalianism for the sake of bacchanalianism, a place where pimps and prostitutes mingled with Saturday night's squaddies and skinheads, has, in recent years, became another sanitized section of edgeless, toothless, corporate-sponsored central London.
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Lauren O'Neill Straight out the gate with a beat like a crossover between New Order's "Blue Monday" and Boogie Pimps "Somebody to Love," this is a euphoric banger that sounds like that rush of a new, early-days love.
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"Pimps seem to be coming out of the woodwork since this all happened," Laura LeMoon, a sex trafficking survivor, writer, and co-founder and director of harm reduction nonprofit Safe Night Access Project Seattle, told me in an email.
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When we hear the command "Order up" over a greasy-spoon breakfast tray, we assume the episode is starting at Leon's, which serves as a kind of home base for pimps and prostitutes at the beginning of the day.
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The pimps are starting to realize that their power is diminishing fast; all they can do now is car pool their women to parlors and movie shoots, like fathers dropping off their kids at soccer practice and dance class.
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He didn't know much, but he knew they'd be at the back door, too, just like in the movies when they nailed the gangsters and the pimps and the drug lords and the whole audience stood up and cheered.
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Pimps, madams, smugglers and even parents bring girls to his shrine in Amedokhian village near the southern Nigerian city of Uromi, where they drink concoctions brewed with pieces of their own fingernails, pubic hair, underwear or drops of blood.
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The group has regular meetings where sex workers can discuss problems ranging from abusive pimps to police extortion, they said, as well as legal services if sex workers are arrested on the street during the periodic sweeps the city conducts.
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An Illinois-based punk rock band sometimes known as the Good Year Pimps violated a settlement agreement with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company by using the name, the Akron, Ohio-based tire manufacturing company said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.
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But by the second season, they've got two kids, Sharon hasn't found her footing in the social world of stay-at-home mothers, and Rob has taken a job he hates at an advertising firm that pimps unsavory pharmaceutical companies.
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Ultimately Trifonov hopes to broaden the issue facing his company to incorporate the trials of other small tech firms who have suffered at the hands of large multinational corporations, who he refers to as the "pimps" of the dating app market.
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They gathered at various local watering holes, offering what one attendee describes as "toasts to the accused," and pieced together a gripping narrative—a tale of free-speech crusaders crossed over to the dark side, dedicated newshounds become digital pimps.
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Arrests of pimps running underage sex rings are reported at the National Football League's championship game almost every year, with girls being trafficked from as far away as Hawaii to hook up with clients via the internet, hotels and strip clubs.
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Commercial sex is legal in Mexico but people who gain from prostitution, such as landlords and pimps, can be jailed under the 2012 law, while sex workers are also often wrongly swept up in police raids, Mexican trafficking campaigners say.
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Instead, would-be patriarchs have claimed to oppose religious misogyny the way Gilead's founders opposed pimps and pornographers, by appropriating good-faith criticism of the world's most Gilead-like religious sects (specifically, those involving Muslims) to excuse misogyny closer to home.
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Among them: Giovanny Rojas-Acosta, Carlos Cruz, Cliff Nieves and, most notably for his actions as described by the police, Rene Samaniego, who would tell pimps when undercover officers were planning to visit a brothel and describe what they looked like.
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In court papers filed in Brooklyn, Mr. Hurant has pointed out that aside from making money — lots of money — Rentboy permitted prostitutes to move their trade from the streets to the safety of the internet and to work independently of pimps.
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"Community members have died due to this legislation, many people have lost access to the majority of their income and don't know how they will pay rent, people who have been working independently are being reached out to by former pimps," Blunt says.
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By taking away relatively affordable advertising platforms for the sex trade that allow participants the time and agency to vet clients, the bill may, in fact, force sex workers to solicit unvetted clients on the streets and rely on pimps for safety.
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While Paris explains the majority of sex trafficking offenses will be arranged online and take place in hotels and motels, pimps will also look to sell their victims in the likes of truckstops while in transit -- hence the importance of trucker diligence.
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Read more: Pimps Are Preying on Sex Workers Pushed Off the Web Because of FOSTA-SESTA When I started dancing, I only had scraps of information I picked up along the way, jumping from club to club unaware of how to avoid harm.
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The coterie of pimps who all meet up at Leon's Diner to eat greasy bacon and talk shop are portrayed as tough, sexist, flamboyant braggarts—but also as unhappy cowards trapped in a system from which they find little respite and no escape.
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Of course, there are LEGAL brothels just outside the Vegas area -- but cops want to send a message that hookers, pimps and johns aren't welcome to do business within Vegas city limits (the closest legal brothel is about 60 miles from the strip).
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The authorities said Mr. Paz, who was sworn in as a police officer in 1990, had a clean record until he retired in 2010, but his time as an officer and detective served as preparation for his new career, overseeing pimps and prostitutes.
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Then it slowly expands into a repellent panorama of exploitation, in which young women are taken advantage of by parents (foster and biological), pimps, lawyers, youth counselors, hackers, classmates, ballet teachers, fellow dancers and just about anyone else you can think of.
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Will we have an upscale one in the new Hudson Yards, or in the tried-and-tested Times Square, like when pimps hustled for customers and shot around the city looking for the next down-on-her-luck woman to lure into prostitution?
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A side effect of the law, since entertainers under 21 will soon be out of work, is the fact that pimps and prostitutes are using the pending unemployment to recruit strippers, and for many strippers under 21, that's exactly what they plan to do.
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Read more: Pimps Are Preying on Sex Workers Pushed Off the Web Because of FOSTA-SESTA In the US and other countries where sex work is criminalized, going to the authorities is often not a viable option—for sex workers, and for women in general.
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" Backpage moderators, meanwhile, should be on the lookout for "ads written from masculine perspective," particularly if they employed the euphemism "new in town," which "is often used by pimps who shuttle children to locations where they do not know anyone and cannot get help.
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Drawing its title from a nickname for New York's 42nd Street in the grimy old days, the show assiduously introduces its roster of prostitutes, pimps, mobsters and police, whose enforcement efforts, or lack thereof, funnel sex off street corners and into new avenues of exploitation.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hollywood actress Mira Sorvino called on Thursday for more action to be taken against pimps and men buying sex in a bid to end sex trafficking, voicing fears that online pornography and grooming of vulnerable targets were fuelling the problem.
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But a few eventually emerge as key to the story: Monica (Sakurako Konishi) is an addict paying off her father's debts with sex work, while accumulating her own debts to her abusive pimps, Yasu (Takahiro Miura) and his Western girlfriend Julie (credited only as "Becky").
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It isn't until the very end of the season when Vincent—the best of the so-called good—begins to question his passivity and balks at the idea of getting in deeper in his dealings with the cops and pimps and mob bosses altogether.
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Read more: Pimps Are Preying on Sex Workers Pushed Off the Web Because of FOSTA-SESTA I expected these meetings to be an uphill battle of fighting for our humanity, but we all left the meeting feeling surprisingly hopefully about our prospects for the day.
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The women sued Backpage and several of its parent companies in Boston federal court in 2014, alleging they were "repeatedly forced as minors to engage in illegal commercial sex transactions" in Massachusetts and Rhode Island starting at age 15 by pimps who advertised on the website.
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The worst agencies act like modern-day pimps, working their girls at a six-client minimum during a 103-hour work day and charging the lowest rates in the city; some even have a reputation for neglecting to screen clients, just to keep the numbers up.
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But Bates's actions can also be criticized for another reason: although his website states that he's in it to expose the johns and pimps who engage with sex workers, Zolicoffer's case shows that it's the women who sometimes bear the brunt of the consequences of Bates' vigilantism.
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But those who watched it quickly discovered it was also a fine piece of subversive, madcap, empathetic filmmaking — a story set on the sidewalks and in the alleys and all-night doughnut shops of Los Angeles, with prostitutes and pimps as its carefully drawn romantic leads.
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The Deuce In the first season of "The Deuce," before Candy started appearing in peep show reels and considering the possibilities, she was a self-employed streetwalker, rebutting the advances of pimps who wanted to bring her under their watch — and occasionally threatened violence if she didn't.
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The showdown between C.C. and Dorothy gets cleaved into two different scenes: one with Dorothy noticing C.C. pulling up as she talks to pimps and apartment residents about a common area, the other with Dorothy walking up to C.C.'s car and having it out with him.
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Also strung throughout this episode is the effect of corruption on working people, from the cops who demand a cut of Vinnie's business to the gangsters who demand a cut of union paychecks to the pimps who get their cut at the end of the night.
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And then we were responsible for actually getting legislation passed that said that when those johns and pimps are prosecuted they should be prosecuted in connection with the sale of a child, again looking at what we need to do to figure out who's doing what.
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The most practical consideration is that in a game in which even the Ty Cobbs and Ted Williamses make out roughly two-thirds of the time, anyone who "pimps" anything is soon going to have a pile of glaring failures pimping his futility right back at him.
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And that means understanding that prostitutes and pimps are running a business with certain protocols in place, just as the drug dealers in Simon's "The Wire" (of which Pelecanos wrote and produced several episodes) have a system in place to serve customers efficiently, minimize risk and maximize profits.
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A team of Times reporters spent a week piecing together the rise and fall of Ludwig Paz, the former detective whose years of wearing a badge in Brooklyn, the police said, would be on-the-job training for a second career running a ring of prostitutes and pimps.
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Related: How Pimps in Mexico's Smallest State Trick Young Girls Into the World of Sex Trafficking The attempted kidnappings highlight a concerning trend in Jalisco, where the number of women reported missing has risen steadily in each of the last four years, peaking at 1,161 disappearances in 219.
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There are those who can afford to pay large sums for ads, and then there are poorer workers who have suddenly lost all venues for free online advertising, and who are now driven to work on the streets or to return to pimps—options that can be life-threatening.
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Vinnie's half-in/half-out connection to the parlors gets him in trouble with Reggie, and even though Leon solves that problem, Vinnie's status as a de facto pimp isn't going to go over well with the other pimps, despite his ability to be a friend to all parties.
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Some of the people I spoke with predicted a return to pre-internet strategies, where third parties provide access to clients and protection, noting that agencies and pimps had already been coming out of the woodwork to offer their services to independent sex workers in the wake of the Backpage shutdown.
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More importantly, that shift in dynamic puts sex workers who don't have experience doing street-based work, or people who were able to escape pimps or get off the streets, in a position where they're considering going back — and that means more women could be sexually assaulted, raped, or otherwise harmed.
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Little did Zola know, she was hurtling toward the center of a backwater psychodrama in which she would face off against a series of pimps, johns, kidnappers, one very weepy white boy and Jessica herself, who had pulled her new friend into this nonconsensual weekend tour of the underground sex trade.
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Since these laws were first introduced in August of 2017, sex workers persistently warned of the bills' dangerous potential consequences: forcing sex workers to return to pimps, forcing them to find clients on the streets (rather than online where they can vet them), and leaving sex workers more vulnerable to abuse.
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Not surprisingly, "The Deuce" is populated by an assortment of "The Wire" alums, including Chris Bauer as Vincent's brother in law, Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as a weary beat cop and Gbenga Akinnagbe as one of the pimps, who are uneasy about how revised enforcement and porn will affect their livelihoods.
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There were many reasons to speak out against them: They almost always depicted black people in impoverished settings populated by pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers; they often wrapped the idea of black power in a superficial depoliticized bow; and, as the genre became more popular, black representation behind the scenes became minimal.
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I always laugh at "experts" who routinely use ill-advised words like "unprecedented" when describing negative politics in modern elections, because nothing can really beat the nastiness of the elections of 1800 or 1828 where sitting presidents were accused in the established newspapers no less of everything from being hermaphrodites to pimps.
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The opening of the Hi-Hat bar provides an instant gathering place for the entire cast of characters — prostitutes and pimps, gangsters and corrupt cops, and perhaps some of the bar's former clientele, provided they can take their daiquiris without umbrellas — and positions the Martino brothers as the leaders of their illicit community.
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The Deuce For the streetwalkers turned adult-film aspirants in "The Deuce," Los Angeles has lingered in the imagination like a Xanadu of sunshine and cocaine, a place where they can make real money without feeding the succubi of pimps and gangsters, and perhaps own a little piece of Hollywood in the process.
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Days after the Senate version of the bill passed but before Trump signed the bill into law, Craigslist shut down its personals section, where people would post ads looking for love or sex — ads that could easily include posts from pimps engaged in sex trafficking without the company having any idea what's going on.
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Trans sex workers and advocates argue that FOSTA/SESTA has forced more trans sex workers onto the streets or into the hands of pimps or dangerous clients, at a time when trans people are being murdered at record numbers—leaving many trans people to risk their lives in order to eat and pay rent.
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But despite the high-profile names, strange "cult"-style practices, and bottomless bank accounts associated with NXIVM, the broad strokes of the trial are not all that different from cases against street-level pimps, according to former federal prosecutor Krishna Patel, who specialized in sex trafficking cases first in the Southern District of New York and later in Connecticut.
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Among these voices, trans sex workers and advocates argue that FOSTA/SESTA has forced more trans sex workers onto the streets, or into the hands of pimps or dangerous clients, at the very same time trans people are being murdered at record numbers – leaving many trans people to risk their lives in order to eat and pay rent.
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Instead, Ms. Spellman is one of the architects of a bill before the District of Columbia Council that would make it the first American city to decriminalize prostitution, placing the nation's capital at the forefront of a growing movement that seeks to permit the activities of prostitutes, as well as pimps and johns, and to allow bordellos.
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She slips away with her college friends for a party, but then she feels out of place and leaves before everyone decides whether to see "Straw Dogs" or "Play Misty for Me." She's now fully part of this insular world of pimps, prostitutes, gangsters and societal castaways that David Simon, George Pelecanos, and their writers and directors have so carefully laid out.
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When I was district attorney of San Francisco I instituted a number of policies that were focused on women and children and how they were treated frankly with bias in the criminal justice system where they were criminalized without really looking at the real offender and so often that case was the pimps and johns, so women were arrested as being prostitutes.
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In the book, a mother pimps out her daughter to a stranger for sex in a misguided attempt to thwart the young woman's budding sexual desires; an older sister prostitutes teenage girls to help pay for her younger sibling's school tuition; and a young girl dutifully applies toxic potions to her skin and prays to become lighter so that she can escape it all.
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C.C. has no answer to the goombahs who make him a lowball offer for his golden goose, so he salves his ego by bragging about his business acumen to the other pimps and exorcises his powerlessness by treating Lori to one last desultory sex session — one in which he treats her like a cheap prostitute, rather than the queen worthy of an extremely well-done porterhouse steak.
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" The organization did not, however, consult with the Hollywood luminaries — Allison Williams, Lisa Kudrow, Emily Blunt, Emma Thompson, and Meryl Streep, to name a few more — who have, via the CATW's letter to Amnesty's Board of Directors, declared themselves "troubled by Amnesty's proposal to adopt a policy that calls for the decriminalization of pimps, brothel owners, and buyers of sex — the pillars of a $99 billion global sex industry.
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"We let everybody know throughout the state that ... we're going to aggressively go after the pimps and the exploiters, as well as the johns and especially the johns that think that they can prey on the minors," said Kent Wegener, a lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Police arrested 474 people and freed victims in and around cities from Los Angeles to San Diego and Santa Barbara in state-wide raids over three days in late January, Wegener said.
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But just as the Summer of Love was eventually hijacked by pimps and bad dudes looking to use "Free Love" as an excuse to bang anything walking along Haight Street, the more drug-fueled orgiastic "cuddle puddles" of today have been exposed as toxic and sometimes dangerous events that revert back to a very unprogressive and misogynistic dynamic, in which entrepreneurial tech 2.0 entitlement and hubris is leveraged to excuse treating women, usually lower on the career ladder, as little more than sex toys.
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One of Bonetti's meditations read: "Let us think of all those children in various parts of the world who cannot go to school but are instead exploited in mines, fields and fisheries, bought and sold by human traffickers for organ harvesting, used and abused on our streets by many, including Christians ...," She wrote of seeing "men in luxury cars lined up to exploit" young woman forced into prostitution shortly after they arrive in Italy, where many African migrants wash up, hoping for a fresh start only to be snared by traffickers and pimps.
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Because every decade should have its own, less self-aware, Showgirls, Refn of course makes Jesse: a) live in a rundown hotel in Pasadena surrounded by pimps and prostitutes, including a not-sure-what-exactly-I'm-supposed-to-be-doing-here Keanu Reeves; b) team up with a fellow dreamer who isn't ready for the big time and will ultimately be betrayed by Jesse's ambition (Karl Glusman, from Gaspar Noe's Love); c) incapable of expressing any independent thought that doesn't relate to her beauty; d) confused and scared by the savagery of the world surrounding her; and e) a virgin.
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