Posted: 2010-10-19 08:48:47
Edited: 2010-10-19 10:06:59
Dear Agent T
Pardon my intrusion into the squabble between you and other forum members regarding your title around here.
I have read your remarks and arguments stating you not a PIMP and that those you represent are neither HOOKERS, HO's or PROSTITUTES.
A have also read that you believe that anyone who subscribes to using the above labels for you or your ladies has a very 'narrow view' of this industry, and stand corrected.
Allow me to demonstrate, with the backing of the the world's foremost authorities in the English language that you are incorrect.
As a point of departure, let us first examine the word 'PIMP'. As you will come to understand, the business you are engaged in fits well within the definitions described, and leaves no doubt in my mind that you are a PIMP.
LAW.COM DICTIONARY
A person who procures a prostitute for customers or vice versa.
NOLO'S LEGAL DICTIONARY
A person who panders or solicits for, or on behalf of a prostitute.
THE FREE DICTIONARY
One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer.
An individual who, for a fee, supplies another individual with a prostitute for sexual purposes. To pander, or cater to the sexual desires of others in exchange for money.
WIKIPEDIA
A pimp is an agent for prostitutes who lives off their earnings.
URBAN DICTIONARY
P-Person I-Into M-Marketing P-Prostitutes, or, One who brokers the sexual favours of women for profits
MERRIAM WEBSTERS DICTIONARY
A person who solicits clients for a prostitute.
DICTIONARY.COM
A person, esp. a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; pander; procurer.
YOURDICTIONARY
One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer.
HYPERDICTIONARY
Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
Someone who arranges for sexual partners for others.
BABYLON FREE DICTIONARY
One who manages a prostitution business.
CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY
One who controls prostitutes, especially by finding customers for them, and takes some of the money that they earn.
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
A man who controls prostitutes and arranges clients for them, taking a percentage of their earnings in return
AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY
One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer. To serve as a procurer of prostitutes.
ENCARTA DICTIONARY
Somebody soliciting for prostitutes: somebody, usually a man, who finds customers for a prostitute in return for a portion of the prostitute's earnings.
WORDSMYTH ENGLISH DICTIONARY
a person, usually a man, who secures customers for and manages a prostitute's business for money.
ULTRALINGUA DICTIONARY
One who procures customers for whores.
ONELOOK DICTIONARY
One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.
ALLWORDS DICTIONARY
A person who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.
MNEMONIC DICTIONARY
A person who arranges for sexual partners for others.
Now, let us proceed to dissect your line of thinking further and examine the word 'PROSTITUTE' and find out whether the ladies you represent are in fact prostitutes or not.
AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY
One who solicits and accepts payment for sex acts.
MACMILLAN DICTIONARY
Someone who is paid to have sex with people.
MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S ONLINE DICTIONARY
To offer indiscriminately for sexual intercourse especially for money.
WORDNIK
One who solicits and accepts payment for sex acts.
CAMBRIDGE ADVANCED LEARNER'S DICTIONARY
A person who has sex with someone for money.
WIKTIONARY
A person who performs sexual activity for payment.
COLLINS POCKET ENGLISH DICTIONARY
A person who offers sexual intercourse in return for payment.
ENCARA DICTIONARY
Somebody paid for sexual intercourse: somebody who is paid to provide sexual intercourse or other sex acts.
THE WORDSMYTH ENGLISH DICTIONARY-THESAURUS
One who earns money by engaging in sexual relations with others for a fee.
DICTIONARY.COM
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
CANADIAN LAW DICTIONARY
An individual who offers lewd sexual acts for the gratification of a customer and in exchange for money.
INTL GLOSSARY OF LEGAL TERMS
A person who engages in sexual activity indiscriminately esp. for money
INTERNATIONAL LAW DICTIONARY
A person who offers sexual intercourse for hire.
Apparently they are all PROSTITUTES. Let's not beat around the bush here. The vast majority of the men you are hoping to reach and gain from, are not spending large chunks of their salaries to buy time with woman for simple chit-chats. They can do that at a bar, in the office or even at home, albeit maybe with a pet. Some even talk to inanimate objects like cars and other mechanical devices and are quite content with that.
As a last point I would like to raise, you state that prostitutes, ho's, hookers etc. are not the same.
Unfortunately I have more bad news for you, which I hope isn't too unbearable. Authoritative thesaurus references do in fact suggest that they are all synonyms for the same type of person i.e. prostitutes.
MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S ONLINE THESAURUS
PROSTITUTE - bawd, call girl, cocotte, courtesan, drab, harlot, hooker, hustler, sex worker, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, whore.
FREE ONLINE THESAURUS
PROSTITUTE - B-girl, Cyprian, Delilah, Jezebel, Mrs. Warren, Paphian, adventuress, bar girl, bim, bimbo, bird, bitch, broad, business girl, caliente, call girl, cat, catamite, chippy, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, concubine, coquette, corner candy, courtesan, cruiser, cum dumpster, cum-guzzler, daughter of joy, demimondaine, disreputable woman, downtown pleasures, doxy, drab, erring sister, escort, fallen woman, fille de joie, flirt, floozie, floozy, gigolo, harlot, hetaera, hoe, hooker, hussy, hustler, jade, kept woman, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, loose wench, loose woman, madam, meretrix, minx, mistress, moll, money honey, nightwalker, painted woman, pander, paramour, penny candy, pickup, pole polisher, poule, pro-hoe, procurer, procuress, promiscuous woman, quean, rent boy, ripper, scarlet woman, seducer, seductress, sex vendor, sex worker, sexual partner, siren, skeezoid, slut, sperm sponge, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, temptress, tomato, trollop, trull, unfortunate woman, wanton, wench, white slave, whoe, whore, woman of ill repute, woman of loose morals, woman of the profession, woman of the streets, working girl.
ROGETS II: THE NEW THESAURUS
PROSTITUTE - whore, call girl, hustler, harlot, strumpet, lewd woman, bawd, streetwalker, loose woman, fallen woman, courtesan, abandoned woman, concubine, vice girl, fille de joie (French), tramp, slut, lady of assignation, tart, hooker, lady of the evening, bimbo, pro, poule (French).
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Let's wrap up because I don't want to spoil your day any further, and I certainly don't want to keep you from your important business.
It is my informed opinion and from deduction of the words of the world's top authorities of the English language that your view on this profession ironically happens to be the narrowest of all.
I sincerely wish you luck in this new business of pimping, as it appears you have a lot of catching up to do in understanding your market.