7 interesting facts about kissing

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

According to Google statistics, the question "how to kiss correctly" annually ranks first in the ranking of the most popular queries in this search engine. The topic is really interesting. And if you cope with the practical part, I am sure, on your own, then we will help you with the theoretical part.

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Kissing is not acceptable in all cultures. A team of specialists in cultural anthropology and gender studies from the Kinsey Institute collected data on 168 cultures (including both modern industrial societies and primitive tribes) from around the globe. It found that only 46 percent of human cultures considered kissing a normal way of interaction between a man and a woman. In 54 percent of cultures, kissing is seen as strange, unnecessary, and even repulsive.

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People have learned to kiss (at least in the way we do it now) relatively recently. Rafael Wlodarski of the University of Oxford scoured the written sources for data on how human habits were changing and found that the earliest mention of kissing is found in Hindu Vedic Sanskrit texts. These manuscripts are about 3,500 years old. They said that kissing meant breathing in each other's souls.

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Microbiologists from the Netherlands have calculated that if a kiss lasts 10 seconds, partners exchange 80 million bacteria during this time. As a result, couples who live together for a long time and do not forget to kiss at the same time have approximately the same composition of the microflora of the oral cavity.

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There is a special science to study the physiological and psychological characteristics of the human kiss. It is called philematology (philematology, from the Greek. Philema, which means "kiss"). And the process itself is called osculation in science.

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The first film to feature a kiss was Thomas Edison's The Kiss. This film became a hit of its time due to its great acting and deep content. We highly recommend that you watch this excellent adaptation of the comedy musical "Widow Jones", released in April 1896. Moreover, the film lasts only half a minute.

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In Russian history, you can often find references to some kissing people. However, they had a very distant relationship to kissing. So in Kievan Rus were called elected officials who performed judicial, financial and police duties. They got their name due to the fact that at the time of taking office, the official took an oath to honestly fulfill his duties, while kissing the cross. Later, in the 19th century, sellers in wine shops were called kissers. They swore not to dilute the vodka and kissed the cross in confirmation of their oath.

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World Kiss Day was invented in the UK, but soon it was approved by the UN as an official international holiday. Celebrated annually on 6 July.

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