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  • Nine illustrations following the sequence of events of a date between Yves and Pascale which results in sex with a condom; the illustrations include a car, a chef holding up a restaurant menu, a cinema ticket, a car, a bottle of wine and 2 glasses, 2 cigarettes in an ash tray and a condom packet; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Petit-Roulet.
  • A young woman leans against a tree while she waits for her lover. Lithograph after H. Decaisne.
  • How much would you tell on a first date? : no-one tells everything about themselves ... / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A chaperone introduces a young dancer or actress in costume to an elderly man in top hat and tails; he chucks the young woman under the chin, and the chaperone leaves them. Process print after A. Guillaume.
  • How much would you tell on a first date? / Terrence Higgins Trust.
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    Nine illustrations following the sequence of events of a date between Yves and Pascale which results in sex with a condom; the illustrations include a car, a chef holding up a restaurant menu, a cinema ticket, a car, a bottle of wine and 2 glasses, 2 cigarettes in an ash tray and a condom packet; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Petit-Roulet.

    Petit-Roulet, Philippe. | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 675050i
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    I hope this mini zine makes you laugh while in quarantine : a zine filled with cheesy pick up lines from Tinder / AJ Smith.

    Smith, AJ | Date: [2020]
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    A chaperone introduces a young dancer or actress in costume to an elderly man in top hat and tails; he chucks the young woman under the chin, and the chaperone leaves them. Process print after A. Guillaume.

    Guillaume, Albert, 1873-1942. | Reference: 32421i
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    Shapely ankle preferr'd : a history of the lonely hearts ad / by Francesca Beauman.

    Beauman, Fran. | Date: 2011
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    Mating intelligence unleashed : the role of the mind in sex, dating, and love / Glenn Geher, Scott Barry Kaufman.

    Geher, Glenn. | Date: c2013
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