(CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19 th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his ...
Humans have been kissing for a long time, according to an article published in the journal Science on Thursday. Researchers studied cuneiform texts from ancient Mesopotamia in an effort to unlock the ...
In the Western world, Valentine’s Day expressions of affection are closely linked to mouth-to-mouth kisses. I remember feeling envious years ago when a colleague found a card in his pigeon-hole ...
A Babylonian clay model dated to 1800 B.C.E. shows a nude couple on a couch engaged in sex and kissing. The Trustees of the British Museum “My upper lip becomes moist, while my lower lip trembles! I ...
Friends who kiss on the lips? Platonic kissing is polarizing, but not as uncommon as you might think
You hug your friend. You kiss your friend on the cheek. You plop a big, wet kiss on your friend's mouth. Wait, what was that last one? Kissing one's friends isn't as uncommon as you might think. Many ...
The modern world has gained sexual freedom and lost romance. What a lousy deal! And the kiss, once the shiniest coin in the realm of romance, has lost its luster. Whose fault is it? Well, it’s Leonard ...
Editor’s Note: Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the book “OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind.” Follow her on Twitter. The opinions expressed in this ...
Lip kissing is an act that’s so natural and common in many present-day societies it is easily taken for granted. But it’s not actually clear whether people have always been kissing, or whether its ...
Wednesday July 6 marks International Kissing Day, when you give your nearest and dearest some lip-based affection. International Kissing Day started back in the U.K. two decades ago, though different ...
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