I give the name violence to a noble boldness that hankers for danger, and I have seen it in many of the pimps and thieves I have worked with, men whose authority and beatific treachery bent me to their will.
Fellow pupils of both sexes are recruited by pimps to play the role of intermediaries.
We spend as much time with the junkies, the pimps, the murderers and the frightened street kids as we do with the law.
But for all those who've labelled his work as 'the art of immediacy, of brilliance, of mirth and joy', and, in particular, for all those cultural pimps of fashionable chit-chat who've spent thousands of dollars on his 'paintings', Warhol left me with these words: 'My work won't last anyway.
Every prostitute who has left the industry describes the horrendous violence she has faced from pimps and punters, an occupational hazard that characterises this kind of work.
But the café work turned out to be something else entirely, and once they got to Athens, Megan found herself at the mercy of a network of pimps and traffickers.
Life for boomtown prostitutes was rough and risky; some Chinese women, speaking no English, were in effect slaves to their pimps.
Part of the ransom money flows to local communities that provide services to pirates.Payments go to cooks, pimps and lawyers, who are increasingly sought after, as well as banknote-checkers with machines that can detect fakes.
Prostitutes thus seek pimps, who often operate under the auspices of larger and more diversified criminal organisations.
The role of analysts, who advised investors but in essence acted as pimps for investment bankers, has been a particular problem.
Most of them are women under the age of 25, often lured with false promises of jobs as "dancers", or abducted and sold for as little as $1,000, then beaten and forced to work for local pimps.
