"Child-grooming"

[Wilson Gray]

I came across this term by accident, just a few minutes ago. It's
brand-new to me, but there are literally tens of millions of raw
Google hits for it, plus this W:pedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_grooming

This "grooming" is, apparently, the same process known as "turning
out," from the streets of Victorian England, as "Walter," author of
_My Secret Life_, has noted, to the streets of black Los Angeles, as I
have noted.

For those who've come in late, "turning out" is the process by which a
pimp breaks an ordinary person, of whatever age, willing or not, into
an ordinary whore. It's only trivially distinct from the process used
by any abuser, from schoolyard bully through abusive parent to abusive
spouse, to control his victim.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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