Procuring , pimping , or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or other sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. The procurer may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing and possibly monopolizing a location where the prostitute may solicit clients.
Like prostitution, the legality of certain actions of a madam or a pimp vary from one region to the next. The term procurer derives from the French procureur. Rapper Nelly tried to redefine the word "pimp" by saying that it is an acronym for "positive, intellectual, motivated person".
He created a college scholarship with the name "P. Juice Scholarship". Dawn Turner Trice of the Chicago Tribune argues that there is "something truly unsettling, to say the least, about attaching such a vile word to a scholarship" and expresses concern about the glamorization of the term. In the first years of the 21st century, a new meaning of the word emerged in the form of a transitive verb pimp , which means "to decorate" or "to gussy up " compare primp , especially in Scottish usage.
In medical contexts, the verb means "to ask a student a question for the purpose of testing her or his knowledge". The word "pander", meaning to "pimp", is derived from Pandarus , a licentious figure who facilitates the affair between the protagonists in Troilus and Criseyde , a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Pimps and madams are diverse and varied, depending on the strata in which they work, and they enter and leave the sex industry for a variety of internal and external reasons, such as family pressure, interactions with the police, and in some cases recruitment from peer sex workers. Procuring can take abusive forms. A study by researchers from the University of Montreal divided the concept of a pimp into three distinct categories: "low-profile" primarily female , "hustlers" predominantly male and violent, marking the common stereotype , and "abused" even maleβfemale split, more likely to be subjected to violence than to commit it.
