pimps are the bicycle that fish need
There was a radio show that I should’ve called in to. It featured two pimps discussing their business. I listened to the podcast until I got so mad I couldn’t listen any more. So the following is based on a small part of the show. Not my most informed moment, but then, I can’t say I really care if I somehow harm the perception of pimps with my ignorance.
What amazed and irritated me the most was how the pimps seemed to believe they were providing business for their girls. When was the last time a man approached them asking for a blowjob? Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m pretty damn sure that without any women, the pimps would have no business.
My belief is that the business follows the pussy, not the pimp.
They used all sorts of corporate jargon to make themselves sound like legitimate and good employers. While these two pimps came across as fairly sharp, the fundamental fact remains that they’re not employers. Not unless their women can give two weeks notice and leave, have access to health insurance, maybe a 401k and earn most of they bring in (minus taxes). This is not how pimps operate.
One of the hosts tried to pin them down on the earnings issue (how much do the girls get to keep) but the question was sidestepped. Maybe later in the show the question was addressed. I don’t know, I didn’t have the patience to listen that far. I became infuriated pretty quickly.
I love the belief all pimps seem to share: only they (almost always uneducated and from a poor background) can teach a dumb pussy how to talk to a rich man. I’d like to know where they get their information. Lifetime subscriptions to The Robb Report and Town & Country? An excess of Robin Leach? Secret training sessions with Donald Trump?
I’d love to liberate all the women working under pimps, teach them they can run their own business and reap the rewards. If they still want to support a man with their earnings, fine. But it should be a choice, not because they were emotionally coerced to believe the only man who can possibly love them is one who takes all their money and forces them to earn more.
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So they were pimps, not agency bookers? Because I can see the value in agency if the escort does not want to deal with administrative part/advertising, and doesn’t care much for control.
P.S. Did you get my email?
Thais,
They were most assuredly pimps. They worked the street — maybe they advertised online, I didn’t get that far to find out.
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PS: Yes, and I will respond.
I’m so glad I didn’t hear that show … I’m getting pissed just reading your brief mention of it.
Ah … would that WE ruled the world, even for a day, how much better off so many women would be. I’d vote for you Amanda, whatever office you ran for!
xo ~ casey
Casey,
I lasted about 15 minutes and I ended up ripping my earbuds out and throwing them across the kitchen (I listen to podcasts while doing the dishes). This post would’ve been funnier if I’d recorded everything I said right after that.
Thanks for your vote Casey! No office for me, I’m lazy. Just being allowed to do my own thing without men’s rules/ideas getting in my way would be fine with me.
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Haha… that’s “smart” honey, not lazy.
xo ~ c
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Oh man I am glad I didn’t hear it either. It is uncommon out here in Vegas for a girl to NOT have a pimp. It sickens me. I know a lot of girls and the ones I can count who don’t have pimps I could count on one hand maybe two. Its a horrible thing and out here these men do NOTHING for the women. Not even protect them… except maybe from other pimps. The girls a lot of times drive themselves around, accept calls from agencies they work for, and work the whole deal in the room never with the help of the pimp. Quite a few are driven around by their pimp because they are too dumb to even learn the easy streets of Las Vegas… plus they want a tight reign on them. I have been in rooms where the girl needed to get out of the room and the pimp refused to get the girl because he looks like he stepped out of a rap video and would never make it through the casino/hotel.
I have actually had one or two girls try to convince me how they “needed” their pimp and how they do good for them… it only made me see how ignorant and stupid they were. Like you need a pimp to get you a job at a good service? Whatever…. if you look decent you need no help getting the good calls. UGH ok now I am peeved
I like to think that an agency can only do business if it does a good job promoting the girls. And both sides stand to make money if they do their part properly. The service weeds out the time-wasters and cranks and sets up dates that will not flake with good clients. The girl does her part to maintain the agency reputation by being on time, pleasant and show the client a good time.
However, dealing with advertising and phone calls is not much fun. Taking care of that is really valuable service.
“Because I can see the value in agency…”
Seems to me though that an agency isn’t anything like a pimp. (Except, it sounds like, maybe Las Vegas — geez! But even there you can quit and own your off time.) Point being that agencies are a standard business model that’s often used pretty much the same for everything from computer repair to strip-o-grams to vacation-condo rentals… and as far as I know condo services, or even escort services, don’t beat you up when you say boo.
Cool post Amanda.
figleaf
Figleaf,
Bad agencies are indeed like pimps. They coerce their employees to take clients they don’t want, hold their money hostage and often require their employees to have sex with them and their buddies. While I don’t know that many agency owners physically assault their employees (though I’m sure it has happened), they don’t provide for the girls’ safety when seeing clients and girls do get raped and beaten.
Good agencies offer a lot of advantages. Bad agencies do not. They are a lot like pimps, minus the supposed “relationship.”
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