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"He's told me he's 25 but I think he's nearer 20. But what the hell. I've never experienced anything like it. He makes me feel like a teenager."

Yet Anne is married and nearing 40, her teenage years long gone. So, too, surely, should be such unsavoury, self-indulgent behaviour-After all, while many of the women here see their holiday as harmless fun, a mutually beneficial transaction, such sexual freedom often comes, inevitably, at a price.

Many of the women find themselves nonetheless falling for their young lover's pillow talk - only to discover they are just one of many of his 'special girls' once the gifts and the money have dried up and they prepare to return home.

As a barman at Alfreds Ocean Palace, a popular reggae bar in the heart of Negril, confides: "We see it time and again, man. It starts out as fun, then the women start talking about staying in touch. They want to think they're the only one.

"But these guys have got a number of different women on the go. Some of them have got three, four different women sending them money from back home."

The previous month, one besotted holidaymaker in her 50s had flown back from Scotland just a month after she left in order to see her 27-year-old lover again - only to find him canoodling with her replacement at the very same bar where they had shared a number of heady nights.