And, no, I do not want any of the excuses about how biologically or emotionally mature younger girls can be, cultural traditions, or the legal issues surrounding the age of consent.Eighteen is a solid, reasonable line in the sand and following it will save you a lot of hassle and possibly jail time.‘I ended up paying for everything and once, when I refused, he told me he could pick up any white woman he wanted who would be happy to give him money.’It is not just sex the women are seeking, though.

In her late 50s and divorced, she travelled to Jamaica for her first holiday alone last winter.

Following Britain's Linked Ring, which promoted artistic photography from the 1880s, Alfred Stieglitz encouraged several women to join the Photo-Secession movement which he founded in 1902 in support of so-called pictorialism.

In Vienna, Dora Kallmus pioneered the use of photographic studios as fashionable meeting places for the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy.

The involvement of women in photojournalism also had its beginnings in the early 1900s but slowly picked up during World War I.

While the work of the English and French gentlemen involved in developing and pioneering the process of photography is well documented, the part played by women in the early days tends to be given less attention.