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Contents 1 Pimp Culture 2 Reference to UN convention of 2005 3 archiving 4 POV? 5 snoop dogg? 6 Incredibly Poorly Written 7 Skank Agent

[edit] Pimp Culture

I thought is would be good at least to include one external link to a store that shows the new products that people buy to go to places such as Pimp 'N Ho that is coming up in september on the long weekend, at places such as Player's Ball that happens in January and at other Pimp 'N Ho parties all over las vegas, las angeles and other parts of US. I hope people don't revert it, at least they will just modify it if they the statement is badly worded.

I removed the link, because Wikipedia strongly discourages links to commercial sites. Joyous (talk) 11:14, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reference to UN convention of 2005

The following statement is made in this article:

"In 2005, the United Nations adopted a convention stating that prostitution is a matter of sexual choice and should be legal throughout the UN, repealing the 1949 statute. Most voters voted for the resolution, and 165 countries legalized prostitution. The most notable non-signatory was the United States."

Please add link to source

[edit] archiving

I'm boldly adding auto archiving for stale threads older than 45 days with a minimum of 7 threads to be kept on the page. -- Banjeboi 03:25, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] POV?

It seems that the intro doesn't give a very balanced account of the relationship between pimp and prostitute. I'm no expert on these matters, but why would these girls tolerate such abusive and parasitic criminals in their lives? Answer; Surely pimps give their girls a degree of security and status in exchange for their tricks. Prostitutes who aren't represented by a pimp may be more vulnerable to the street's dangerous elements.

Pimps use charisma and bling and to attract and keep their girls. If he's good at his job, wears fine clothing, drives a nice shiny pimpwagon and most importantly provides good connections, his girls will respect him. He will use 'pimpnosis' to dazzle them and they will do their best to please him. It has to be a two-way relationship otherwise it wouldn't exist. This article doesn't reflect that.

I'm not suggesting the article should promote pimping or get sucked into the hip-hop/pop culture zeitgeist that seems to want to glomourise the pimp, indeed any reference to pimp culture should probably be redirected to a separate page, but IMO the intro at least should be less POV against the pimp. Traveller palm (talk) 13:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Word up playa thay be diss'n a pimps lovin' ways yo. We needs us some pro pimpin' POV up n her.-- The Pimp Hand  holla 19:57, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] snoop dogg?

I don't believe he is an actual pimp and if so why doesn't it say that on the snoop dogg page? also somebody add fillmore slim on the list of pimps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 500killer (talk • contribs) 03:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Incredibly Poorly Written

This article strikes me as extremely stupidly written and biased, even in the first paragraph. A pimp is not specifically someone who finds underage and "for what ever reason" susceptible women. Or take this.

"At the top there is the pimp who runs the business. Below the pimp is the bottom girl. She acts in a way like an office manager, keeping tabs on the neighborhood when the pimp is away, keeping the pimp apprised of the law enforcement activity, and collecting money from the prostitutes."

This is, let's face it, stupid. It's poorly written, and the citation doesn't link to anything.

Someone fix this article.

[edit] Skank Agent

Nowadays people who could be loosely defined as "pimps" prefer to be called Skank Agents. A Skank Agent isn't a pimp, it is an agent that has skanky friends. I'm new here, but i think if someone types "Skank Agent" in the searchbox, it should at the very least direct to pimp in the interim. Also, can someone write a new article on Skank Agentry and get it approved for Wikipedia? Much appreciated Ron Pattinson (talk) 08:45, 4 December 2009 (UTC)