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In this series of sensual couple reports I have contrasted and compared the contemporary advice and information with relevant excerpts from the literature of previous centuries. Apart from the obvious grammar and spelling differences, it is apparent that not a lot has changed in the intervening period! Boy still meets girl and then nature takes over.