Word: souteneur
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Shortly Monsieur Londres found, as the League of Nations had discovered before him, that the problem of the male souteneur is, if possible, more basic than that of the white slave herself. If is the souteneur who sniffs about Europe until he finds a poor and not too homely "baggage," wins her by offering food if she is starving, buys her from debased parents if necessary, scrubs her up if she is filthy, and smuggles her out to the Argentine on a passport doctored or forged to show that the "baggage" is not "underweight" (i.e. under the age of consent...
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