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The Confusion between Pimping and Trafficking

Sex trade businessmen benefit when they obscure the meanings of words. Some words hide the truth. Just as torture is named enhanced interrogation, and logging of old-growth forests has been named the Healthy Forest Initiative – today, some elements of pimping are named trafficking. Pimps don’t call themselves pimps/proxenetas/zuhalter, they call themselves businessmen or brothel owners or stripclub owners.

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