Slavery is one aspect of the violation of women and children in prostitution, in marriage, and in families. However, prostitution that is not pimp-controlled is not slavery. It is another form of sexual exploitation. Sexual exploitation and female sexual slavery are each different aspects or dimensions of the sexual relations of power in the patriarchal oppression of women. Once I started, my man wasn't going to let it stop.
Pimps have two ways of holding on to women.
One is verbal abuse, psychological beatings where they make you feel like you are worthless, like you're trash. Beatings are the other way he'll keep her because by having so much fear in her heart she is afraid to leave him. When he put his arms around me nothing could hurt me. Prison was also an escape. But these escapes were temporary as long as she was emotionally dependent on him.