The Sexes: The Liberated Pimp

Ditch digging, plumbing, truck driving, lumbering. One by one, fields once closed to women are opening up. Among the latest to admit females: pimping. Hamburg, Germany, scene of this latest "advance," now has 300 to 400 female pimps, each bound to one prostitute in a lesbian relationship. "With the emancipation of women and the increasing tolerance of homosexuality," Police Official Karl Heinz Westphal explained last week, "more and more prostitutes refuse to be exploited by a male pimp and turn to women as surrogate men."

For the police, women pimps mean less trouble than...

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