 Clients oftentimes attempt to maintain a power balance that favors them over the prostitutes.This is often done through different methods of violence such as sexual, emotional, and physical.Though pimps may be perpetrators of violence against sex workers with 53% of sex workers in one study reporting that violence at the hands of pimps is a major problem, 33% of subjects interviewed in that same study reported that the main benefit to having a pimp is the protection from potential assault.