Your Honor, if we exalt priests, who are stewards of a dubious peace on earth, why should we not honor pimps, who are intermediaries of a peace in bed? Pimps are but prompters of the carnal dialogue which began in the Garden of Eden, and which has come down unadulterated to the present.

Miguel Cervantes from “The Writer with the Lame Left Hand” broadcast December 1996 on NPR