Who's your daddy?

[Mullins, Bill]

Two "pimpumentaries" which show up on HBO and other movie channels are
"Pimps Up, Hos Down" and "American Pimp" (directed by the Hughes brothers,
and is the better of the two).  I have no idea how close to reality either
of the movies are, but watching either of them gives one a very depressing
look at a very sad business.
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> That's an _extremely_ romantic concept of prostitution. It
> must have come from a book. A pimp doesn't provide any kind
> of protection or anything else. What he does is to take all
> the money made by his whores and that's that. A pimp
> occasionally may have sex with his bottom woman, who's his
> second in command, but not with any other member of his
> stable. Pimps aren't in the game to have sex with whores.
> That's for squares. Pimps don't hang out where whores work
> their stroll out, so there's no way for them to protect a
> whore from the police or from anyone else. If a whore gets
> busted, she goes to jail and serves out her sentence. If a
> trick busts a whore up, she'll be out on the stroll on
> crutches the next night, if that's what it takes to get her
> pimp his money. Whores don't use any drug except alcohol and
> not much of that, unless they can find a friendly trick to
> cop for them. Paying for a drug habit other than their own is
> not what pimps do. They don't waste their money on their
> whores. They slide by the stroll to get their money, should
> they run out, though that's unlikely. That is, it's unlikely
> that a pimp will run out of money. But, in general, pimps
> appear on the set, if at all, only to lord it over the
> "squares" and the lesser pimps or, when the evening is over,
> to get their money. Most often, though, pimps will wait until
> the next day to roll by his whores' cribs to pick up his
> money. Pimping is all about the benjamins.
> Pimps don't take a cut. They take _all_ of  the money, down
> to the last red copper cent. Whores have to support
> themselves on their own time, usually by "receiving gentleman
> callers" during the day.
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> Of course, I'm familiar only with the African-American scene.
> Things may be different WRT the European-American version of the life.
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> -Wilson Been-there-Done-That Gray
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