Procuring (prostitution)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"The Spaniard, who will seduce any girl he can, is pitiless under like circumstances to his own womenkind; so there is much weeping, the girl is turned out of doors and falls readily into the hands of the procuress. In the brothels of Seville or of Madrid she finds at least a roof and bread to eat." --The Land of The Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia (1905) by W. Somerset Maugham |
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Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. A procurer, colloquially called a pimp (if male) or a madam (if female), is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The procurer may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing, and possibly monopolizing, a location where the prostitute may engage clients. Like prostitution, the legality of certain actions of a madam or a pimp vary from one region to the next.
Examples of procuring include:
- trafficking a prostitute into a country for the purpose of soliciting sex
- operating a prostitution business
- transporting a prostitute to the location of their arrangement
- deriving financial gain from the prostitution of another
Other notable pimps
- Polly Adler
- Sydney Biddle Barrows
- Don "Magic" Juan, born Donald Campbell
- Santiago Ceballos
- Santiago Ceballos Junior
- Kristin Davis
- Heidi Fleiss
- Dennis Hof
- Snoop Dogg
- Xaviera Hollander
- Enriqueta MartÃ
- Elizabeth Needham
- Deborah Jeane Palfrey
- Fillmore Slim
- Iceberg Slim
- Sally Stanford
- Al Swearengen
- Ah Toy
- Suga Free
- Jurjentje Aukes Rauwerda
- James Lipton
- Anna Wilson (madam)
- Mary-Anne Kenworthy (Madam)
- Lindi St Clair (madam)
- Marguerite Gourdan (Madam)
- Justine Paris (Madam)
See also
- American Pimp, a 1999 documentary by the Hughes Brothers consisting of first person interviews with people involved in the pimping lifestyle in the U.S.
- Brothel
- Pandarus
- Prostitution