ABSTRACT
This chapter points out the need to empirically and theoretically deal with the moral burden of the pimp and how this construction of a “monster” liberally transforms our views of third parties and what they do. It emphasizes the need to construct an approach that is more focused on relational flows, power tensions, and multiplicity, rather than on identities and fixed positions in a commercial structure. Within such a theoretical approach, the chapter suggestes the image of demonic alliances as a fertile analogy to think about prostitution and procurement in a grammar of relations, transformations, multiplicity, and networks. Demonic has to do with difference, multiplicity, illicit unions, orabominable loves. All of these things are the sexual desires and practices that, for Gayle Rubin, operate beyond the threshold of acceptability in the moral logic of kinship and heterosexual, reproductive, and contractual conjugality.
