48 Laws of Pimping
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This week is a busy week at work, plus some personal issues going on, but I’ve been using my free time to brainstorm on Pimp Week. Pimp Week is going to be a week of articles where I take something as reprehensible as the second oldest profession and try to show how you can actually derive positive, useful life philosophies from it.
I think it benefits women as much to learn pimp game as it does men, maybe even moreso. The pimp and hooker game to me is just a much more ruthless and clinically efficient version of the dating game, minus a lot of the civility, social correctness and the bullshit. Many of the manipulations a good player or pickup artists uses are just watered down (and legal) manipulation techniques of pimps. If a woman can understand the headgames a pimp uses and the weaknesses of the female nature that he targets and exploits, the techniques of the average pickup artist or player will be a joke to you. Same goes for guys and the hooker/stripper mindset. These women are well-versed in exploiting male weaknesses like ego, sex drive and competitiveness, and if you understand their insights into the male nature, you’ll understand your own general weaknesses with opposite sex much better as well.
To whet your appetite, here are the 48 Laws of Pimping from Pimpin’ Ken:
- Purse First, Ass Last
- Get a Name in a Game
- Don’t Chase ‘Em, Replace ‘Em
- Keep a Ho in Arrears
- Prey on the Weak
- When Pimpin’ Begins, Friendship Ends
- Pimp the Game
- Don’t Let Your History Be a Mystery
- Learn the Rules
- Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan
- Avoid Gorillas and Godzillas
- Ain’t No Love in this Shit
- Pimp Like You’re Ho-less
- Better a Turnout than a Burnout
- Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say
- Give Motivation and Inspiration
- Get You A Bottom Bitch
- Cop and Blow
- Turn Ho Ends into Dividends
- Get in a Ho’s Head
- A Ho Without Instruction Is Headed for Self-Destruction
- Keep Hoes on Their Toes
- A Ho Joins A Stable to Ruin It
- Set the Trend
- Grind for Your Shine
- The Game is to be Sold, Not Told
- Keep Your Game on the Low
- Be a Leader
- Play One Ho Against the Next
- Prosperity over Popularity
- Look out for Suzy Choosy
- Turn a Tramp into a Champ
- Bring Your People With You to theTop
- Show Respect to Get Respect
- Trust Nothing but the Game
- Be Internationally Known, Nationally Recognized, and Locally Accepted
- Let a Ho Know
- Wreck a Hater
- Switch Up
- Don’t Down ‘Em, Crown ‘Em
- Keep Your Front Up Till You Come Up
- Talk Shit and Swallow Spit
- If You Can See It, You Can Be It
- You Need Fire and Desire
- Get Rid of the Word “If”
- Move and Shake Like a Pimp Shakes
- Pimpin’ Is What You Do, Not Who You Are
- Don’t Believe the Hype
These laws come from the book Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game by Pimpin’ Ken. It’s not an explicit manual of pimping, but rather an explanation of the general philosophies of pimping explained in ways that show their applicability to all walks of life and different areas like work and friendship. Pretty good read.
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Thanks for making me add yet another book to my ‘reading list’. Don’t you know it’s as long as Shaq’s arm already?!
Part of me doesn’t want to read it, for all the reasons you’d expect a woman not to - the misogyny and objectification is disgusting. But then I’m not a king, warlord or a politician, and I learned plenty from the 48 Laws of Power. Even the most reprehensible things have plenty to teach us if we let it.
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China - good comment. In fact, I just added the second paragraph about why understanding the pimp game is good for women because of your comment.
Hmmm, I may just print that list out and tack it to my pin board. Who’d a thunk I could learn from pimpin’?
I agree with China - some of the things on the list there, as a woman, kind of made me cringe, but when I take my gender out of it and think of it in terms of every day life, it puts a whole other spin on it.
added to my wishlist
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B and B: Once you learn to stomach the misognyny, it really is fascinating stuff.
Roosh: I suggest you get it sooner rather than later. Based on what I’ve seen of you, I think it’d be right up your alley.
“stomach the misogyny!”
I’ll work on that one coach.
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That line was directed to the ladies. I don’t think you need much help in the stomaching misogyny department, sunshine.
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