Comments on: History of Kissing

History of Kissing

stbalbach — Sun, 16 May 2004 09:59:21 -0800

History of Kissing. Swapping spit consumes about 336 hours of the average person's life.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Sun, 16 May 2004 10:30:09 -0800

...if you're lucky.

By: banished

banished — Sun, 16 May 2004 10:50:21 -0800

no... if you're the average person

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 16 May 2004 10:54:45 -0800

Being the average person is lucky. I'm abnormal. It sucks.

By: bingo

bingo — Sun, 16 May 2004 11:11:54 -0800

That only means about six cumulative years of kissing only one hour per week. Isn't that low? I think that just in my teens and my twenties, I took care of that easily, and I hardly had the girls standing in line. Maybe this statistic reflects a global balance between people of more kissishly liberal and kissishly conservative cultures.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Sun, 16 May 2004 12:26:45 -0800

Now that I'm about to get divorced, my suspicion that I have an awful lot of catching up to do is confirmed.

By: notsnot

notsnot — Sun, 16 May 2004 12:36:24 -0800

"Kissishly": I like that word.

By: abcde

abcde — Sun, 16 May 2004 12:42:59 -0800

Kissing is weird. It's considered practically the basic unit of sexual/romantic activity, and seems on the surface to be natural and instinctual, but it's a learned practice, and all of the explanations for it are creepy :P There are still whole regions that don't do it, in Africa especially.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Sun, 16 May 2004 12:46:22 -0800

Some of this text seems too familiar and the rest seems largely unsubstantiated. Right Way to Kiss previously mentioned here

By: abcde

abcde — Sun, 16 May 2004 13:50:00 -0800

I was actually thinking of making a poll to see which kissing direction is preferred in what ratio, but I figured it had already been researched by someone or another. To me, even just resting my head to the right feels subtly more comfortable (I'd say it's because I'm right-handed, but really in large part it's the muscles on the opposite side that would control tilting your head) - a fact that I never really realized was something fundamental. I never knew uteruses and infants tilted their head right preferentially, you'd think that'd be more common knowledge.

By: ArcAm

ArcAm — Sun, 16 May 2004 13:55:56 -0800

Have you ever imagined how you would look if the person you were kissing wasn't there? Me neither.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Sun, 16 May 2004 15:01:58 -0800

336? In highschool!

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Sun, 16 May 2004 16:59:54 -0800

Swapping spit consumes about 336 hours of the average person's life. Shit, I need to catch up. Does anyone want to trade? I can ship FedEx, by the gallon.

By: oissubke

oissubke — Sun, 16 May 2004 17:01:18 -0800

Metafilter: Kissishly Liberal