ES: I’m not sure if that argument’s going to convince anyone.
IT: If you don’t like him, it’s whorin’. If you don’t like him but you’re going to use your sexual powers to get what you want with somebody you don’t like, it’s whorin’. You call it what you want. Even if she doesn’t have sex. Any time you give in for money, it’s a form of prostitution. Working at a job you hate is a form of prostitution.
ES: Guys can be whores, too?
IT: Absolutely. You feel like you’re giving yourself away for the money, you are a prostitute. I’ve got a friend — I’ll leave his name out of it — but he hangs around with older chicks and they give him money. I ask him what he’s doing, and he’s like, “I’m just pimping, baby.”
ES: Yeeeah. No he’s not.
IT: That ain’t pimping. That’s whoring. He’s having sex with these older chicks and they’re giving him money. You can’t yell, “pimp.”
ES: You’ve called him out on this?
IT: Oh, yeah. But he still denies it. He says, “Ice, I just call it renting out the beef cake.”
ES: How is this an argument against the legalization of prostitution?
IT: I know there’s a horrible side to it. You have trafficking of humans, you have slavery, you’ve got kids being abducted. Even real players don’t like that part of the game. Guys who do that aren’t pimps. They’re kidnappers. In the player game, the pimp game, they say this is a game by choice, it’s not by force. It’s not that.
ES: Prostitutes will probably be around forever.
IT: Never gonna stop.
ES: But pimping seems like it might be a dying vocation.
IT: Oh, absolutely. You’ve hit it dead on the head.