4 weird facts about kissing!

There’s nothing better in the world than a long, passionate kiss with a woman . . . the swell of the music . . . the smell of her hair . . . the way her body presses against Him . . . how time seems to stand

still and all there is is the shifting sea of her lips and his as they melt together into a big (and somewhat moist) ball of kissing bliss.

A relationship consultant, Michael Fiore, has put down some notable facts about kissing:

Important Thing 1: Kissing Is Kind of Disgusting  and WEIRD. You see a guy (or girl) you like; you dream about them; you flirt and then your heart races, you bat your eyelashes, he wraps his arm around your waist to pull you close and you . . .Um . . .Eat each other’s faces?

Huh? I mean, if you were an alien from another planet and came to earth and saw everybody Passionately shoving their mouths together you might just decide to invade somebody else because these human WEIRDOS are obviously cannibals. Kissing is so common among humans (90% of human cultures do it) that it’s easy to think it’s just a thing we do, but remember IT’S WEIRD.

Important Thing Number 2: Men Aren’t The Only Weirdos Who Like To Eat Each Other’s Faces. While other animals don’t write sonnets (or rap songs) about it, a LOT of other animals on this great big planet kiss too . . .

Dogs and foxes lick each other’s faces (and sniff butts too. Hmm.), Chimpanzees kiss (though without the tongue), some birds tap their bills together affectionately and elephants even put their trunks in each other’s mouths.

Which means . . .

Important Thing Number 3: We Kiss For A Very Good Reason

According to Dr. Helen Fisher (who’s done a ton of research on LOVE and is pretty awesome) “Kissing is a mechanism for mate choice and mate assessment.”

 See, this isn’t “romantic” at all, but the actual POINT of kissing is to swap saliva with a potential mate. Saliva is a bit of a “chemical cocktail” full of all sorts of hormones . . .There’s even evidence that men’s saliva has testosterone in it . . .

And by going for the big, sloppy, open-mouthed kiss so many men seem to prefer (much more than women) men may be unconsciously trying to push their testosterone-laden saliva into your mouth in an attempt to trigger a woman’s sex drive (which may be why so many women get hot and bothered after a great kiss.)

But the end result is that kissing is a quick (and sometimes dirty) way for us humans to quickly assess how good of a sexual (though not romantic) mate somebody will be.

Plain and simple, people with complementary genes to ours (and significantly different immune systems) just plain TASTE better to us (while folks with extremely similar genes to ours - like siblings - usually taste pretty damned awful. Yay!)

But in shorthand, when you kiss somebody and you’ve got that CHEMISTRY its your genes’ way of saying “This one! Have babies with this one! They will be strong and robust and way less likely to die of terrible diseases at a young age!”

Finally . . .

Important Thing Number 4: Of Course Technique Matters Too

Of course a great kiss doesn’t happen JUST because somebody’s got the right genes. HOW somebody kisses (the combination of their “kissing instincts” and how they’ve been “taught” to kiss by previous partners over the years” matters too.

I hope you learned how to become a better kisser!!!