47. BROWN SUGAR

Brown Sugar is the name of the largest brothel in the Zone.  Run by a vicious and misogynistic pimp, L’il Miggy Javasco, the self proclaimed Pimp General of Stomp Street, this apartment building has been taken over completely, and is Javasco’s base of operations.  This is the sleaziest place in the Zone.   Security in the building isn’t that high, though camera’s run throughout the building, including most rooms, which Javasco will use to record and sell as amateur porn on the black market.  Javasco uses drugs, intimidation, and abuse, to keep his women in line and operating.  When a woman becomes too sick or used up to turn a profit, she is discarded of.  Usually they are simply turned out on the street, but sometimes they are sold off to depraved individuals.  Particularly troublesome women are simply killed.

Brown Sugar has as many as 50 women operating at any given time.  The women are often captured members of other gangs, or kidnapped off the streets.  Javasco pays well for young women, and they are often taken and smuggled into the Zone by contacts of his throughout the city, particularly in 2-3 Set.  If he thinks its worth while, he will ransom the women back to their families, but more often than not he just puts them to work.   Carnicero and most of Stomp hate Javasco, and while not hating prostitution per se, they despise the way he operates.  If Miggy wasn’t one of the most profitable earners in Stomp, they would long ago have eliminated him.    Even as it is, many in Stomp want him out, and the other gangs, especially the Furies, have sworn to kill him.  As it is, Javasco is forbidden to take women from Stomp territory, though one of Canicero’s standing threats is that if a member betrays him, he will turn their wives, sisters, and daughters over to Javasco.   Javasco may in fact be the single most hated person in the Zone.  The only thing that really keeps him alive is that he is constantly surrounded by his crew, well paid, well armed, and very loyal thugs, and that the money he brings in to Stomp is too important. 

Brown Sugar is not Javasco’s only brothel, women who prove loyalty and obedience are allowed to work in one of his smaller places, and the women he trusts the most are allowed to walk the streets, for as long as they can earn

Written By Deric Bernier, image by Cellar

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