Sex trafficking pimps

They make use of violent threats to ensure prostitutes submit to their orders. Defiant prostitutes encounter physical abuse from their pimps as a way of punishment. Additional pimps manipulate prostitutes through substance dependency in most cases hard drugs creating a cohesive relationship between the pimps and the prostitutes (Raphael, Reichert & Powers, 2010). Pimps recruit prostitutes in various ways. One method is manipulating the emotional relationship that women have for them to lure them into prostitution. Pimps provided some services to their sex workers mainly recruitment, organizing clients and managing their finance and debts. Pimps operate their business with sex workers in streets, motels, and clubs among other places. Pimps exploit sex workers by gaining control over their lives. Many prostitutes have encountered physical violence from their pimps and even some ending up being raped by them.