While pimping is one of the most disgusting things in this profession, it has it's place. Some girls don't work well without a pimp and unfortunately, a lot of THOSE girls really wouldn't be able to make a living or be taken care of if they didn't have a pimp or if they were involved in some other profession, probably because they lack the intelligence, drive, and/or work ethic to do anything else. That's the sad, but very real truth. There are good pimps. Yes, they are few and far between, but they do exist. A good pimp takes care of his girls. He makes sure that they not only have everything that they need to do their jobs correctly but they also have a strong sense of belonging to a group or a family. Yes, there is some element of control and discipline, but for the good scenarios, this element does not include physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. A good pimp knows that the better they treat their girls, the more their girls will want to stay with them and the less desire they'll have to leave the safe haven and family he's created for them. All things, both good and bad, have their places in society. Without the good and the bad, the yin and the yang, if you will, there wouldn't be perfect balance.
From my own experience, a pimp generally takes 100% of the girl's money. With that, he takes care of her needs and the tools she needs to perform her job to the fullest, he takes care of the others in the "family" unit, and he pays himself. IMHO, taking 50% of a girl's income is not pimping.... it's a form of agency work. Lots of agencies initimidate their girls, making them think that if they try to leave that they'll be blacklisted or they'll somehow be cut off from getting business with anyone else. They threaten that if the girl doesn't call on and off on a regular schedule, doesn't drop her fees exactly on time, gets customer complaints, doesn't agree to take credit cards or build up an escrow (deposit meant to be used for charge backs on credit card charges and usually refunded six months after the date of the last charge the girl made while working for the company), and/or adhere to every letter of every policy the agency has that she will be barred from ever working in that town again. Most agency girls are kept in the dark about independent work like how/where to advertise, bulletin boards such as this one, screening procedures, and etc. They simply don't know that they can easily advertise themselves on websites such as Eros, announce their availability and ask questions on bulletin boards like this one, screen their own calls, and become apart of an ever-growing network of independent girls who put aside their personal dramas and commit themselves to the safety of the industry as a whole. All of the things aforementioned are methods of intimidation and some agencies instill fear in their girls by the threats they make. I heard of one agency owner in particular who became angry with a girl because she didn't show up to a high dollar appointment on time. For retribution, the agency owner called her parents and told them that the girl had been working as a Provider for the past year or so... Yet, I still do not consider that agency owner a pimp, just a shady business person with no ethics or morals.
If an independent girl wants to help other girls get work by running their ads for them, answering and screening their calls, and etc., then she should be paid. Hell, some agency fees are over half what the girl makes. A couple years ago, one of the largest agencies in Atlanta was quoting their clients $220/hr and was taking $120 from every hour of every appointment as an agency fee... Pathetic, huh???
Yes, girls who work for agencies do make less money, but it's their own choice. Eventually, they do find out the logistics of working independently and they make the choice to either stay with an agency and split their money or work independently and keep all their money, but pay for their own ads, phone bills, and other work expenses.
Most people only see the ugly side of pimping. Few see the good side. Many of the most reputable girls started out with pimps and because of that have good work ethics and treat their customers much better than the average Provider. Of course, others who have or had pimps are notorious for ripping customers off to make more money because the more money they can give to their pimp, the better they're treated, but that's the number one sign of a bad pimp....
I don't think that anything at all should be done to "help" the girls in question. They, of course, need to be given the knowledge they need to work independently, however the choice is ultimately up to them. If they're being intimidated, either by threats or by actual abuse, they need to know that nothing is as bad as it seems and make the choice to get out of the situation.
Just my .02.
Captain Save-A-Ho
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