PIMPS

P.I.M.P Power In Manipulating People
Have you ever met someone who quit smoking and now they hate the smell of smoke?

That's how I feel when I see people posting ignorant quotes and messages about pimps. I frown up my face and everything. LOL

BUT SERIOUSLY…….THE TRUTH NO ONE TELLS…….

Pimps aren't cool. They're criminals. They're liars. They're murderers. They're dream killers. They're kidnappers. They're rapist. They're thieves. They're master manipulators.

But you'd never know that because you haven't walked a mile in my shoes. To you it's nothing more than a four letter word you heard from your favorite rapper.

I look back over my life and it’s crazy. I remember how my first pimp had the game all dressed up for me.

There weren’t any conversations like, "You're going to quit your job and become a stripper. Then I'm going to take you out of town away from all you're use to and deprogram you to depend only on me.”

“After that I'm going to exploit you through your pain and past mistakes. I'm going to drown you in shame and convince you that your old life was worthless. Then I'm going to reintroduce your old life back to you in a new way. Instead of sleeping with guys you see as potential lovers let’s throw love out and get money for sex instead.  It's easy and you won't have to experience anymore heartbreaks."


It's always rather difficult for me to discuss this part of my life. I'm not the same woman I was back when all this was going on.  There is a mixture of me being upset at myself and sadness all at the same time.  

But then I think about the 4.5 million people trapped in sexual exploitation daily. If I got away and I still choose to hide the truth behind what happened and what I've witnessed I'm allowing the pimp to win and I'm validating to the girls and women who are still trapped that this way of life is somehow normal or okay. When it's not.



Where I'm from the pimp culture is glamorized. It's cool to have multiple women. It's normal for a woman to take care of her man. It's love instead of abuse when a man hits his woman. It's accepted for women to sleep with men for money to pay bills and be taken care of. Being a stripper is looked upon as just a way to make money. This acceptable subculture is destroying lives daily. It's time that we stop turning the other way and get a understanding of what's going on.

Let Me Say…….
Although I grew up around this environment I prided myself on being one of the few ladies I knew who didn't sleep with guys for money. In fact, when I met a guy or dated a guy I made sure to let him know I was the woman and man of my house financially. Not the government. While some girls were being groomed by their own mother to put a price on their vagina my mom was showing me how survive independently.


Until at 21 I met a rapper/pimp that would switch things up for me.

Since pimps aren't just walking up to women and girls saying, "Hi. I'm going to sexually exploit you."

What are they saying?

Every pimp is different in their technique of "turning out."

My first pimp was an aspiring rap artist. He a College graduate and a Q dawg. He promised me a lavish lifestyle for me and my family that included financial freedom. He promised a job that paid what I made bi-weekly on a daily instead. He promised me more freedom and time to spend with my family. He claimed that he wanted to help me and my sons. We were going to be a team. The list goes on.....

As I continued to meet other women and girls along the way they began to share their "promises" to me that their pimp had manipulated them into believing as well.

Promises like, "When we get out of the game he's going to make me his wife." "He's saving my money to pay my way through college." "We are going to buy our first home in cash."  Some women and girls often start out as girlfriends and in order to stay with the guy they agree to be sexually exploited.

Believe or not but a lot of women and girls are seeking out love and often get trapped in sex trafficking by a pimp who portrays himself as a potential lover. Once he reveals himself as a pimp it's too late she's already hooked.

Promises like, "I'm going to get you out and you can have the life you deserve." "I can help you become a model that you've always dreamed of becoming."

How many people do you that are in search of a better life? They've suffered from issues like abuse, abandonment, rejection, poor self-esteem, and self-worth issues???

Not too long ago I had someone confide in me about being lost and having no direction in life. Her exact words were, "I think I need a pimp or somebody to help me sort this all out."

Most, not all, women and girls who are under the control of a pimp come from not so good backgrounds.  When the pimp offers them a better life who wouldn't take the risk? From homelessness to a mansion. From rejection by dad and men to being adored by a pimp? (In the beginning anyway) From poverty to riches even at the expense of bringing harm to yourself? As long as I'm getting money right? Wrong.....


Have you ever been offered a job and after you accept the job you end up doing work totally different from the original job description?

That explains how I got in the sex industry. My pimp promised me dancing and modeling gigs part time to make fast cash....

Instead I became a stripper/escort......

Again, to most people the word "pimp" is just another word you heard. To me and many other women and girls around the world that word brings up some not so good memories.....

Until next time:

Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people.

These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.” They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. But nothing will come of these latest impostors. Everyone will see through them, just as people saw through that Egyptian hoax. (2 Timothy 3:1-9 MSG)


Blessings,

Lost Girl Saved By Grace
 
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