http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/127/pimp-anthropology
Pimping is easy, and so is prostitution.
This is the weird thing about growing up in Las Vegas, and knowing people that have chosen to do some rather . . . interesting things with their lives. As much hype as there is about pimping and hoe-ing, it really isn't that hard at all. It's not what Hollywood makes it up to be, but pimping really isn't that difficult.
Stupid people in high school start to do stupid things. There are those that start playing around with the idea of easy money, so they become drug dealers. Those same people who are looking for cash are the same ones that start talking about how to make easy cash. That leads to people who want to pimp. It's easy money. All you have to do is make sure that you have clients, that there's a girl or girls that will work for you, and after that you're dealing with protection and safety, not with sex trafficking. As for the girls, it's just about as stupid for the motivation. All it takes is to find a girl who is legitimately a whore. Who likes sex for the sake of sex, and likes money even more. It happens that people just enjoy sex, so a good whore is one that want a lot of it and doesn't care who or what gives it to her. Mix those two entrepreneurial sparks and you've found yourself in the pimping game. It's a weird corner of the world, but it's not that weird to me because I know people that have either tried to be part of the game, or are still in that very odd game.
It's one of the weird things of Las Vegas and growing up in the weird world that is Las Vegas. While in the mix and seeing it around you, you don't think anything of it, but now outside of that world, that is a messed up place. Just like it would be totally acceptable for people to quit school and become a dealer at a casino, girls their senior year would pick up stripping at a local club to make a lot of cash. The really weird one, and it gets really weird, is while a life guard it was an event that most of the employees would go out to amateur night at a club, and cheer on as two (or sometimes more) of their co-workers would try to win cash from the competition.
Let's take a step back and work on that one messed up thought from the world of Las Vegas. Not only does this involve going to a strip club with your co-workers, both male and female, which is super weird and awkward before anything else kicks into gear, but then you cheer for your co-workers as they strip for you and strangers in the hopes that they might win the prize for the night as one of the best amateur strippers. No where else that I could even begin to imagine would that be possible, let alone socially acceptable, but the group of people that I worked with did it fairly frequently.
Being a stripper, pimp, hoe, or anything else that you'd think of as the 'seedy' side of Las Vegas isn't that difficult to get into. Think of it this way - who are the people that are even doing things like that? Typically, that stripper that tells that they are dancing so they can pay for tuition isn't doing that great in classes to start out with. And typically the people that are involved in a strip club on any sort of regular basis are not exactly the most intelligent people in this world. Now, if a high school drop out and sort out how to become a pimp, or even how to sell themselves on a street corner - can it really be that difficult? A person who has trouble with showing up to class on time, occasionally turning things in, and staying awake for seven hours, is the person who says pimping 'aint easy. The same person that dropped out because they felt like homework was just too much to ask of them, is the person that you're judging something from should never happen.
Pimping is easy, it's just the brain dead people that are doing it aren't used to a 40+ hour work week, so it's a shock to them when they have to spend more than two minutes on something.
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