This is true even of husbands who do not live primarily off their wives' whoring, but who share household expenses with her. Whores are quick to point out that other women have the right to support their husbands and lovers. No one passes laws forbidding waitresses, lawyers, feminists, or secretaries from having dependent men in their lives. Yet pimps continue to be excoriated, with no reference to whether or not they are abusive. There are two main reasons for this.
Many girls seek out pimps and even love their 'man'.
If a bank teller's husband beats her, he is charged with assault, not with being a bank teller's husband. The best explanation of the schism between these two portraits of the pimp is that pimping, like prostitution, is not a monolithic institution. Some pimps are husbands and friends, who offer protection and partnership. But, especially on the street level of prostitution, other pimps are kidnappers, batterers and rapists who deserve to be taken to a back alley where feminism can be more graphically explained to them. But such criminals are not generally the ones being prosecuted by the law and the court system.