Abstract
In the past few decades, prostitution and the sex trade have been given a serious makeover. The title of this book, The Pimping of Prostitution, is meant to convey how sanitised commercial sexual exploitation has become. The Urban Dictionary definition of pimping is ‘to make something “cool”, “better” or “awesome”’.
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A phrase commonly used by abolitionists to describe the ‘happy hookers’ who make up a tiny minority of prostituted women.
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Bindel, J. (2019). Sanitising the Sex Trade. In: The Pimping of Prostitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95947-1_3
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