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SEX SELLS : DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT
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INTRO – welcome to a special 10 minute audio feature on male sex work in Jamaica. This feature is a product of the Panoscope Radio series, distributed by the Panos Institute Caribbean to highlight development issues such as HIV/AIDS, Gender, environment and child rights.
(50 Cent’s Candy Shop - intro only) Rhythm
Diamond – changing the boundaries of sex work in Jamaica
Diamond is 33 years old and he sells sex for a living. He claims he is one of five male sex workers in Jamaica who sells sex on stage. Once per week, on Friday nights, he performs live sex on stage for a fee at a nightclub in the Corporate Area. However, he says the bulk of his earnings comes from wealthy, middle-class women who pay him as much as $10,000 per session. He says 19 of those women, many of whom are married, are his private clients.
CLIP 1
Cue in: “You have nuff uptown ladies…
Cue out:. .just fix them up.”
Duration: 21 secs
Diamond says he can earn up to $10,000 each Friday night for performing live sex on stage in the nightclub. He is paid $5,000 for sex with one woman. However, that figure is doubled if he participates in a threesome, (i.e. have sex with two women during the same session). The live sex sessions last for one hour. However, he says at the end of each month when his private clients get paid, that is when his earnings skyrocket.
(Candy Shop: “I’ll take you to the candy shop, I’ll let you lick my lollipop, one taste of what I’ve got, I’ll have you spending all you’ve got!”) Rhythm fades out.
CLIP 2
Cue in: “You have woman...
Cue out: …up to $100,000 per week.”
Duration: 21 secs
Diamond says he started having live sex in front of an audience 18 years ago. He began in 1988 and did it for one year. He claims he is the first man to start having sex on stage in Jamaica and that his career began in Spanish Town.
CLIP 3
Cue in: “I went to a club…
Cue out: ….from there a just start.”
Duration: 27 secs
However, he said in 1989, he stopped performing on the request of his son’s mother, whom he met at a dance. Their relationship lasted for 8 years, but ended after she accused him of cheating with other women. She broke up with him in 2000. Left on his own, with his young son who was three years old at the time, he returned to the nightclub circuit.
CLIP 5
Cue in: “Yuh si one time…
Cue Out:…and yuh waan do it.”
Duration: 22 secs
He says he absolutely refuses to have sex without a condom.
CLIP 6
Cue in: “Cause I don’t want…..
Cue out: no condom no sex.”
Duration: 19 secs
Diamond says while he has become popular because he is well endowed, he is sometimes feared.
CLIP 7
Cue in: “Most girls ‘fraid a mi…
Cue out: …I’m perfect!”
Duration: 12 secs
Diamond says having sex with his clients are business transactions and he refuses to get emotionally involved with them. However, he says after a while, some of his private clients become possessive.
CLIP 8
Cue in: “If a girl come now...
Cue out: …mi jus’ do di work.”
Duration: 15 secs
A large percentage of the persons who frequent nightclubs are males, yet Diamond says men have only made sexual advances towards him twice. He recounts one of those experiences.
CLIP 9
Cue in: “I was at a club
Cue out: …keep it to yourself.”
Duration: 30 secs
Diamond has a nine-year-old son and he talks about him with affection.
CLIP 10
Cue in: “My son say…
Cue out:..my pride and joy enuh.”
Duration: 08 secs
He says his mother, who occasionally helps him raise his son, does not approve of what he does for a living.
CLIP 10
Cue in: “At first she said
Cue out:…Best work ever
Duration: 4 secs
He explains why he prefers selling sex to other traditional jobs.
CLIP 11
Cue in: “I’m a mason…
Cue out:..mi enjoy that.”
Duration: 08 secs
CLIP 12 Don’t use this clip
Cue in: “I would say….
Cue out:…what the movie make.”
Duration: 11 secs
Diamond is very optimistic about his future and plans to be around for a long time.
(Diamonds are forever – by Kanye West …….Fades)
“SEX SELLS” was written by Andrea Downer and produced by Patrick Lafayette for Panos Caribbean Institute.
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