1) How does the author describe how he
became a pimp?
2) What in his family background does he
make relevant to this?
3) What is the relationship he has
towards his mother, his girlfriend, and the women who are working for him?
4) What is the relationship he has to
other men?
5) Where does he learn to pimp?
6) Does the author show signs of remorse
about the violence he describes?
7) What does race have to do with the
pimping business?
8) How does Iceberg Slim justify his
violent abuse of women?
9) What is women’s perspective?
10)What is the relationship between sex,
money, and power in the pimping milieu?
11)What is the economic logic of the
game?
12)How does a pimp gain power?
For the extra credit assignment, please
answer the question below:
How does Iceberg Slim’s account of pimping differ
from that provided by Claire Sterk’s Tricking and Tripping, and how does it
compare to Garcia Marquez’s book, My
Melancholy Whores? Compare these books in terms of whether or how these
books portray pimping and prostitution as a social problem.
The paper should be about 2-3
pages long. For one page, you will get up to 1% credit, for 2 pages you will
get up to 2% credit, and for 3 pages, you will get up to three percent credit.