Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iceberg Slim, a former pimp interviewed at great length by the Milners, successful pimping requires an outright loathing for women. "That's where the thrill was," he said. "In the absolute vilification, in the degradation. I had this intense hatred. To be a great pimp, I think you've really got to hate your mother." Bruce, a pimp who went to college, thought that society had twisted and perverted the Biblical role of the sexes: "Pimping goes back to the man controlling the situation before Eve bit the apple, see, and brought him down to her level...
Many players think that they have already won it back, and that pimps are the only real men left in America. To get a feeling of control over his stable of women-who may be either black or white and number from two to 20 -the pimp makes them treat him deferentially, light his cigarettes and speak only when spoken to. Said James, a pimp who, like his favorite ho, is an excellent painter: "Notice how quiet she is. You know why she's quiet? 'Cause I'm talking, not because she has nothing...
...ancestors were wiser. A young man would take a girl out, give her the bit with flowers and candy and dinner dates and dances, kiss her good night, then go to a whorehouse. In a whorehouse he was fairly safe. It was run by a madam, not a pimp. He wouldn't be robbed, and he wouldn't be likely to get syphilis, for the madam would want to keep up the reputation of her house...
Sexual Xenophobia. Peyret is quick to explain that he wants nothing like the pimp-controlled houses of yore. Civil servants would run them. For the girls, it would be a job, not a way of life -or a home; the girls would not live in the houses. "The main thing," says Peyret, "is that they would be supervised by local or regional health and sanitation authorities...
...class portrayals and clear ideological perspectives in favor of examining more fundamental spiritual maladies, defined by the banality of everday existence. Tod Hackett of The Day of the Locust, recently graduated from Yale, is no less caught up in the Hollywood dream factory than his pan-handler and pimp friends. West grew to condemn not Americans but American ways and manners, evident in the leathery rationalizations of business leaders, as well as the radical polities of many of his friends...