The bricklayer, the lawyer and the 'pimp'..

In the the Rogue’s Gallery 'pimps' are the uber parasites of our day. However, there are views which contest this and compare pimps to practitioners of other trades, such as bricklayers, physicians, and lawyers, all

of whom can be good or bad at their chosen profession and can

therefore, be guilty of foul play (cheating the customer, doing a

poor job, imperiling the health of the customer, or his future, or

his financial situation), just as a pimp can (physically hurting the

prostitute). But in neither case is foul play necessarily part of the

trade. Bricklayers, physicians and lawyers do not necessarily

have to cheat, do a poor job, or imperil the health or future or

financial situation of a customer, though they are potentially

capable of doing so. It is the same with the pimp. A pimp does

not necessarily have to hurt a prostitute because it is not a necessary part of his job. The reason for this is that the pimp’s defining function is that of a broker.

Some individuals want sex and are willing to pay for it, and

some others are willing to sell it and accept cash for it instead of,

say, a big house, designer clothes, mink coats, diamonds, leisure,

babies, and the prestige of a well-off spouse.

Hence, the existence of the pimp as a broker of sex. And the argument goes 

the prostitute is no more exploited by the pimp than

is the manufacturer exploited by the salesman who

drums up business for him, or the actress who pays

an agent a percentage of her earnings to find new

roles for her. In these examples, the employer, by

means of the employee’s services, earns more than

the cost of hiring the employee. If this were not so,

the employer-employee relationship would not take

place. The relationship of the prostitute to the pimp

(employer to employee) contains the same mutual

advantages.

Indeed, argues Block, “assignations arranged by the pimp afford

the prostitute additional physical security over street walking or

bar hopping.” And of course the pimp gives the prostitute protection against undesirable or violent customers, The pimp might be then referred to as an 'ear broker', or a 'body broker'.
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Source:L  LITERATURE AND THE ECONOMICS OF LIBERTY: SPONTANEOUS ORDER IN CULTURE


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