Atlanta police said at the time it was a lot harder to arrest pimps than prostitutes.

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"Theaters were in the disreputable part of town, with pimps and gallows and bear-baiting, " she said.

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Mr Humphrey said the only winners in the multi-million pound industry were the human traffickers and pimps.

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The female judges were also more likely than male judges to complain that police weren't aggressive enough in going after pimps and customers.

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Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Pimps Up, Ho's Down), and younger scholars such as James Peterson, Meta DuEwa Jones, Dionne Bennett, Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Kyle Dargan, H.

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And then there is often family dysfunction where too often the absent or incarcerated father is replaced by AAU coaches or other sports pimps of sorts.

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Or the year the premiere of a documentary called "American Pimp" attracted a handful of real pimps and their entourages, causing a near-riot when there weren't enough seats.

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From his days obsessed with Metallica, to playing in a mambo band called Latin Pimps in college, to actually running away with the circus to play the guitar, Robert Gomez has had a colorful musical history.

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