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...yachting, or congregate at a "jam house" to sniff cocaine -which may be served on new hundred-dollar bills and carried to the nose on gold pocket knives. At one party attended by the Milners, the guests consumed cocaine worth $6,000. "I don't work," admitted one pimp. "I just eat, sleep, rest and dress." He does work, of course, making the rounds of bars to recruit new "bitches," make drug contacts, and keep track of the latest police activity in his area. He also has to keep his old hos from deserting him by making each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Pimping Game | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Jesse James. Some psychoanalysts believe it is the lonely prostitute's need to feel cared for by someone that binds her to her pimp. Others think that what cements the bond is non-threatening sex: prostitutes are often frigid, pimps latently homosexual. Thus the prostitute feels more comfortable in bed with a pimp than with a man who might expect more of her sexually. Some analysts also suggest that what the prostitute really wants, and thinks she has in her pimp, is someone even lower than she. To French Analyst Maryse Choisy, pimp and prostitute "do not unite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Pimping Game | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...Milners' study, only two pimps were white, but they dressed, talked and acted exactly like their black colleagues. In fact, says Christina, "the success of the white pimps hinges on their ability to mimic the blacks." For ghetto Negroes, the choice of pimping as a career has a certain logic. Sociologists have long noted that because black men have traditionally had trouble finding legitimate jobs, they are used to the idea of being supported by women. Besides, in the black community there is no loss of status in making money from sex. Quite the contrary. Pimping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Pimping Game | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Bottom woman. A pimp's key employee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: To Follow the Action: A Player's Glossary | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...Gorilla pimp. A user of strong-arm tactics to get and keep prostitutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: To Follow the Action: A Player's Glossary | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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