But Honorable Judges, the office of pimp is performed by purveyors of distinction, since their labors gratify not merely one, but three parties; to wit, the seeker of recreation; the willing collaborator who puts her person—the whole of it—into the engagement—and the broker, which is to say, the pimp. All three profit from the transaction—and of how many arrangements in the secular world can this be said?

Miguel Cervantes from “The Writer with the Lame Left Hand” broadcast December 1996 on NPR