Chapter 7 Managing Conflict: An Examination of Three-Way Alliances in Canadian Escort and Massage Businesses Lauren Casey, Bill McCarthy, Rachel Phillips, Cecilia Benoit, Mikael Jansson, Samantha Magnus, Chris Atchison, Bill Reimer, Dan Reist and Frances M. Shaver Review of the Literature Weitzer (2009) notes that relatively few studies of the adult sex industry consider third parties and that the majority of these studies focus on street-level pimps. Although pimps are often considered predatory exploiters (Farley 2004), a number of recent studies suggest that claims of regular, intensive abuse by pimps seem exaggerated. In their research on pimp–worker relationships in Montreal, Morselli and Savoie-Gargiso (2014, p. 264) conclude that “coercion and control are not as salient in these relationships as is often believed, and that the notion of inherent exploitation must be qualified” (coercion may be more prevalent when sex work L. Casey (&) Á R. Phillips Á M. Jansson Á S. Magnus Á D. Reist Centre for Addictions Research of BC, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada e-mail: lecasey@uvic.ca R. Phillips e-mail: rachelph@uvic.ca M. Jansson e-mail: mjansson@uvic.ca S. Magnus e-mail: samagnus@uvic.ca D. Reist e-mail: dreist@uvic.ca B. McCarthy Department of Sociology, University of Davis, Davis, CA, USA e-mail: bdmcarthy@ucdavis.edu C. Benoit Department of Sociology, Centre for Addictions Research of BC, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada e-mail: cbenoit@uvic.ca © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 A. Horning and A. Marcus (eds.), Third Party Sex Work and Pimps in the Age of Anti-traf ficking, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50305-9_7 131