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©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(3) Lovers throughout the ages One of the great fascinations of the study of medical history is the personalities that emerge from documents and manuscripts. When I ask a group to name a really famous lover from the pages of history, the cry “Casanova” heads the list virtually every time and, on some occasions, ends with him. There is a great gap bet...