"BARBADOS.. ." A CONVERSATION WITH DIVA ALEXANDER 11

DA- It is easy if selling your soul is easy, if you don't want to get up and
 work. 'Cause what is really happening here is that a lot of young guys
 on the street... Don't know whether it is lack of love or solace in their
 home, because I find a lot of young boys lack a certain degree of
 nurturing from their mothers and their fathers. I talk to them and I try
 to understand why they do the things they do. Some of them hustle for
 money. I mean I call up and offer and I say I have someone here who
 wants a job whether it be pumping gas, working on a plantation
 whatever. I think a job is a job is a job is a job as long as you're getting
 money. They don't want to do that. They don't want a job where they
 have to labor too hard or sweat, or go through too many wears and
 tears. They just want the money put in their hand. They go off and they
 shop with that. That is a generation of spoiled children. That's what I
 call them. I worked at supermarkets, picked potatoes. I cut cane. This
 is when I was young because I had to do it because I wanted the
 experience and I was in cadets and look at me today-hey, hey, hey.
 It's [cadets] kind of a military thing and nobody would ever look at me
 and think I had done these things.
 That's what I like about me, the
 element of surprise.
 Back to your question about it being
 easier. I couldn't do it. I couldn't be
 a prostitute because it takes a lot of
 .. that level of psychological wear
 and tear of it I couldn't deal with. I
 am a very spiritual person ... in the
 context of not religious but spiritual
 about my soul and my being and my
 purpose. And prostitution, I am not
 beating anybody, but I couldn't do it.
 Having sex with ten to twelve people
 a night. I couldn't do it There are
 some people who can get it done. I
 can give you some names and you
 can go in the street and talk to them.
 Believe it or not when we first started
 doing the show at Ragamuffins, a lot
 of the locals thought that we were
 prostitutes in a glamified arena. It
 only came up after this guy who was
 gay said that a lot of folks think that
 you pick up these white people. Said
 [inhalation of breath] and laughed