In the flesh
, They squeeze themselves into tight-fitting clothes. Breasts bulging and stomachs protruding, they pile on layers of make up: powder and foundation to conceal their dark skin, rouge to heighten colour and eye shadow to adorn their eyes. Those trafficked from the Northern areas of Pakistan bear a fairer complexion, which automatically increases their worth in the market, explains Nadeem*, one of the local pimps in the district.Nadeem claims that these girls come to him either of their own accord or are sold to him by their families.
“My family has been in this business for years,” he claims. “My father was a pimp, as was his father and all his other brothers.” He is in his mid-forties, with dark, beady eyes and flared nostrils that give his face a hawk-like appearance. He has a receding hairline and he scratches his over-grown belly every few minutes as he responds to queries, drawing attention to the big, jewelled rings on his sausage-like fingers. He laughs often, a deep guttural sound which gets amplified with every second as his paunch shakes to its rhythm.
Lucky wants to start selling opium to "artist types" since it's easier to transport than alcohol. Nucky asks his mutton-chopped lawyer to sound less like his mother. Downtrodden Nucky is so much funnier than Nucky the king dick.