A kiss is just a kiss...or is it?

[Liar]

Taken from Doc's Tabula Rasa thread, but I think it deserves one of it's own:

In fact, I find 'kissing' to be a bigger leap than fucking... why would you kiss?

On a purely physical level, what feels good about kissing?

Good question. What is a kiss really?

Does it serve a biological purpose? A mate bonding through taste?

Or is it a product of culture? Because humans having clothes...the most intimate thing you can do while still dressed? Is it some kind of ritual? Does all cultures kiss?

 

[Guest]

Done properly, it's mindblowing. Quivering, trembling sighs.

Far more intimate than mere sex.

 

[Liar]

Done properly, it's mindblowing. Quivering, trembling sighs.

Far more intimate than mere sex.

Yeah... I guess an answer to the question "What is a kiss?" would be "Bloody awesome!"

 

[LadyJeanne]

Done properly, it's mindblowing. Quivering, trembling sighs.

Far more intimate than mere sex.

Yes, yes, yes.

Yeah... I guess an answer to the question "What is a kiss?" would be "Bloody awesome!"

Yes!


Kisses are everything.

 

[yui]

Kisses are everything.

Yes.

 

[WindWarrior]

Animals have their way of kissing, I think. They touch noses with one another, and especially with their mate. Or they touch forehead to forehead. It's just that their mouths aren't too compatible for kissing. They can't move and shape them like we can. We humans just got all the luck.

 

[yui]

Animals have their way of kissing, I think. They touch noses with one another, and especially with their mate. Or they touch forehead to forehead. It's just that their mouths aren't too compatible for kissing. They can't move and shape them like we can. We humans just got all the luck.

And Eskimos rub noses. But I think it has something to do with freezing spit in the Outer Reaches of Hell and all that.



If I haven't said so already, welcome to the AH, Wind.

Luck,

Yui

 

[WindWarrior]

Thanks for the welcome, Yui.

I was going to mention eskimos ... but then I didn't want people to think I was comparing them to animals. I'm sure, when on vacation from Dante's ninth circle, they use their lips.

 

[JamesSD]

Lips have pleasure sensors on them. On a primative level, it rewards us for eating.

Ok, I'll stop being a scientific smartass now.

 

[English Lady]

Aren't your lips full of nerve endings? I seem to remeber the lips being one (if not the) most sensitive part of the body.

kissing may be a cultural thing, though even if we wandered around naked I wonder what would be that first real step to intimacy (cuddling, touching arms, holding hands are all friendship things its the lip to lip kiss that pushes the boundary) maybe hugging would then be it, as touching naked body to naked body would be pretty intimate...

 

[mlady_france]

There actually is a scientific expination. Your lips fill with blood as you become aroused as do other sincitive parts of the body. As they are touched, more blood is sent increasing the desire for them to be touched.

On a more personal level, I feel kissing is the ultimite form of intamacy. It always makes me feel, like I'm apart of the one I'm with. Because I feel so much conection in a kiss, I don't kiss anyone that I don't feel close to. I have a friend that I play around with some time. He's striped me, spanked me, licked up and down my body, but never have we kissed. A peck here and there maybe, but never a kiss. For me that's what seperates sex from intimacy.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"What is a kiss? 4 lips, slobbering like a dog over raw meat."
ALF

 

[Bishonen]

"What is a kiss? 4 lips, slobbering like a dog over raw meat."
ALF

What country are you from again?

 

[Guest]

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[Guest]

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[Svenskaflicka]

What country are you from again?

Sweden. And yes, our idea of romance is telling a woman "considering how fat you are, you don't sweat very much"...

 

[matriarch]

It is quite simply the most delicious, magical, mysterious, all-consuming, intimate way to spend an hour..........or ten.

A kiss can be soft, hard, passionate, tender, gentle, rampant, mind-blowing, knee trembling, spine melting.

It is the perfect way to greet a lover at the airport (especially when the centre of attention), to say good morning, to say good night, to tell her just how beautiful she is, to let her know how much you want her.....but most importantly, to say simply - "I love you".

There is no other single physical union that can say so much, and in so many ways.

Long live the kiss.

*sigh*.

I love you

 

[Guest]

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[gauchecritic]

Actually, as with most things, it relates back to our childhood.

As EL said, it's to do with the lips and more importantly, the tongue.

Give a pre-toddling child anything in its hand (even its own toes) and that thing will be placed next to the most information sensitive part of its body. The tongue.

This is the most useful part of a child's body. The eyes transmit vague blurs of light and dark. The fingers transmit bold big shapes due to the lack of fine and to a lesser extent gross, motor control. Things in front of a child's face are featureless from more than about a foot away. Things in a child's hand are shapeless because of incomplete nerve connections. But the lips, and especially the tongue have been developing at a far faster rate than any other organ or limb because they are both required to be useful and used immediately following birth.

By far, the largest single function of the brain controls the tongue because it carries two out of five senses and one of those uniquely.

Which is why 'French' kissing is so much dirtier. (especially when kissing 'other' lips)

 

[English Lady]

Actually, as with most things, it relates back to our childhood.

As EL said, it's to do with the lips and more importantly, the tongue.

Give a pre-toddling child anything in its hand (even its own toes) and that thing will be placed next to the most information sensitive part of its body. The tongue.

This is the most useful part of a child's body. The eyes transmit vague blurs of light and dark. The fingers transmit bold big shapes due to the lack of fine and to a lesser extent gross, motor control. Things in front of a child's face are featureless from more than about a foot away. Things in a child's hand are shapeless because of incomplete nerve connections. But the lips, and especially the tongue have been developing at a far faster rate than any other organ or limb because they are both required to be useful and used immediately following birth.

By far, the largest single function of the brain controls the tongue because it carries two out of five senses and one of those uniquely.

Which is why 'French' kissing is so much dirtier. (especially when kissing 'other' lips)

I love it when you follow me up *grins*

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Yes.

Just kissed it. Kinda sugary

 

[elfin_odalisque]

it's good.

haven't you got some pokey things with pointey sticks to do somewhere else or was that a doppelganger.

 

[Guest]

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[Dar~]

I love kissing. It is the single most erotic thing a person can do to me, yet it can also be the single most innocent thing. When I kiss a lover, I am finding out what tpe of person I am with. Is he/she strong and forceful or curious and testing. what kind of moment I am in. Then again, when My daughter rushes up to me and simply states "I love you , Mommy" and kisses me, its a simple joyous expression. Nothing at all similar to the kiss of a lover yet still so uplifting.

 

[fifty5]

"He who steals a kiss, but cannot take the rest, deserves to forfeit his advantage" ...