Virgin Atlantic Airlines has a new ad titled "Pimp My Lounge," hyping its enhanced clubhouse at Heathrow Airport in London.

A paper covering Penn State reports two students have started PimpMyRoom.net, proferring Playboy shot glasses, neon signage and lesbian posters. But nothing there says blingbling like these "Pimp Cup" goblets from icedoutgear.com.

Der Spiegel Online surfs the Web and hypothesizes about a "pimp backlash." They note that Pizza Pimps in Berlin has a flyer for their delivery service featuring three guys with the requisite funny hats, chain medallions and a ghetto blaster. That'll liven up a party. Gotta differentiate from the competition somehow. In other pimp news, police in Kuwait arrested four real-life pimps who'd reportedly kidnapped and forced into prostitution 10 Asian women.

I'm making a wild guess that these reported sex slaves haven't yet had the experience of lounging in Virgin's Atlantic's "pimped" lounge at Heathrow, or eating "Pizza Pimps" pies in Berlin. And in Kittery, Maine today, an alleged Massachusetts pimp was expected to plead guilty in a case involving coercion of a 14-year-old girl into prostitution. More pimp backlash here, from the Daily Eastern, at Eastern Illinois University.

Related Rosenblog posts: "Pimp My Bathroom, Please, And Pass Me My PimpTone Cellphone;" "Pimp Culture, Ghetto Branding: Fa Shizzle;" "Pimp This Industry (The Consumers Are Johns);" "'Grills' Not 'Ghetto' Any More;" "Spike Lee: Pimps N' Hos Gotta Go;"" "The Mainstreaming Of Pimps And Whores;" "Son's A Pimp, Daughter's A "Ho" - OK?; "Iran's Pimp-Mullahs."

TECHNORATI TAGS: PIMP, MARKETING, BACKLASH

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Posted by Matt Rosenberg at September 15, 2005 05:33 PM