JANA HOCKING: I experimented with the sex trend my girlfriends are trying... and I was left humiliated
Over the past few years, something curious has started happening in my friend group. Women, apparently straight, mostly divorced and fed up with dating men, have started confessing: 'I think I might be into other women.'
At first, I dismissed it as a one-off, a throw-away comment delivered with a nervous laugh after one too many cocktails. But then another friend said it. Then another.
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