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The invisible man is invisible no more—we are holding him up to face the music.
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Rochdale is one of the places in England where criminal gangs have prostituted girls and young women, but evaded the law until parents, feminist activists and the girls themselves demanded justice. Much of the media and general public would bend over backwards to label what these men did to their prey anything other than pimping: it is largely known as ‘grooming’ or sexual exploitation.
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Bindel, J. (2019). The Invisible Man. In: The Pimping of Prostitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95947-1_5
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