Hi Doll!
I too have always been fascinated with them. And by the fact that so often they and their employees say they feel a sense of power by what they do. That they feel they are the ones in control and they are the ones who feel they are using, rather than being used.
I don’t understand this exactly, but I am nevertheless quite fascinated by it.

Lorraine ……… your point of “women exploiting women” I find to be a quite valid. However, there are volumes of women whom have chosen to pursue this profession. My former daughter-in-law did just that, resulting in the disintegration of her marriage to our son. She has now found another man who is more “suited to and supportive of” her chosen profession.

Hi Lorraine, I share your sentiments - to some extent. I think there are some madams that are not nice people (I hope that some of them are), and they probably treat people terribly. (I happen to think that Heidi F. is one of them. I don’t think she has a nice bone in her body. What a no-class mess she is. If you saw the HBO program last night, I think she would have knocked that old madam off herself, had she not died first - just to get her birds! I do.) Anyway, I think the profession of prostitution isn’t going anywhere soon. So, I am in favor of legalizing it. At least the women who work in that profession would have some protection. They wouldn’t get screwed - literally and figuratively. It would get the women off the street. They wouldn’t need pimps. So they would get the money they earn. Or at least more of it. They would get health care, so they wouldn’t infect the clients, and it would help to control/prevent the spread of disease to others. I also don’t condone drug use. But I think the addicts who live on the streets should be able to go into a free clinic, and get clean needles.

Lorraine, Spot on!… How in the world can women protest the treatment of the pimps, whilst our own sisters deliver each other in to the hands of those who are just as “Vile” as the pimp. And to call these “Great Buisness women” is like saying hooray to the hit-man as they too make great money for dicarding people as well. One may say, How can you compare a hit-man to a madame? Simple…. They both rob life. One physcialy and the other spiritualy. A woman no matter what the reasoning, who feels she has to sacrafice/sell her very being in order to make money….Is already dead!

Lorraine, Back during the Civil War when Belle Brezing was a madam, she was not doing it to “exploit women”. In fact, you would do well to read the biographies of some of these women, especially of the ones a hundred years ago. They were just trying to survive. The reason I mention Belle Brezing is that she was the model for Gone With The Wind. As I said in my previous post, google her and you will see how she came into the profession and the horrors of her childhood.