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One glance along the soft white sands of Negril beach this week could confirm that there was plenty of material for her to draw upon for the role. Every year, the flights to nearby Montego Bay disgorge thousands of unaccompanied women who make the hour-long onward journey to the beach resort.

Some are single career women, others are divorcees; some are married. Nearly all have one thing in common: the desire for, as one woman put it, in terms as distasteful as they were explicit, 'black bamboo'.

Among them is Carol, who is on her first visit to the island with her 44-year- old friend Helen. Both have children in their late teens and are on holiday to recover from fraught divorces.

Both, too, have wasted no time in 'getting to know' the locals.

Indeed, the pair chose Jamaica because they knew, as Carol told me, that they could easily get 'no strings fun' here.

They have found it in the forms of 26-year-old Byron and 22-yearold Rafael, who approached the women as they soaked up the sun on the first day of their holiday, asking if they wanted to take some island 'excursions'. The excursions progressed into drinks, dinners and, inevitably, sex.

"Neither of us is kidding ourselves about what's going on," Carol says. "But the fact is that in England, men our age aren't remotely interested. They all want 22-year-old blondes.