
You know, those guys who are either French kissing your nostrils or your chin. I don't know about y'all, but the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a bad kisser isn't bad breath (I'm thinking that's a given). Oh, and everyone I talked to described the importance of staying in the moment during a kiss.īy the way, no matter how great a kiss may be, some official polling revealed that half of all men would have sex without kissing (I've asked around about this too and, a lot of men find kissing to be a whole lot more intimate than intercourse) men prefer wetter kisses than we do (I'm thinking that has something to do with, umm, our other lips getting/being wet as well) overall, kissing is preferred before sex rather than after and, the average amount of kissing partners between men and women is approximately the same-14. Slight nibbling and sucking are appreciated. Caressing (even if it's just hand holding) needs to be happening simultaneously. Saliva needs to be kept down to a minimum.

From the unofficial polling that I did, with both men and women, the kind of kisses that feel like a conversation (you know, where both people are paying attention to one another) is pretty amazin'. A little lip and tongue sucking is great too, so long as he's not trying to remove it from my mouth. To me, a kiss where a man holds my face, starts off slow and eventually becomes more intense is hot. Now that we've broken a few kisses down, let's talk about what makes for an amazing kiss. But because we naturally associate the French with being passionate, they get the reputation for coming up with this kind of kissing when, in all actuality, it was us. The original term was the Florentine kiss it's what American and British soldiers did when they greeted their significant others when they returned home from World War I. But this kind of kissing didn't actually start in France. Where did that term originate? From what I've read, the word "galocher", until very recently, was a slang French word that meant "kissing with tongues". Earlobe and neck kisses are acts of foreplay (by the way, if you wonder where hickeys came from, we got it from animals. When a man kisses a woman on her hands or eyelids, supposedly that shows that he is quite smitten. Kisses like ones that are planted on the forehead and cheeks, along with the oh-so-cute (at least I think so) Eskimo kiss (you know, rubbing noses) is about expressing heartfelt affection. I did some research-including a little asking around-and found out that there are at least a dozen different kinds to choose from.

Let’s Look at Some Different Kinds of Kisses

Hopefully, by the time you're done reading-or at least skimming-all of this, you'll have a new appreciation for kissing and, more importantly, who kisses you. Is there an actual kissing etiquette? Let's look and see. What makes or breaks a kiss? We're gonna touch on that as well. Where did French kissing come from? I'm about to tell you. Today, I want to approach kissing from an entirely different angle. Moral to the story? No matter what age you are, kissing is pretty powerful because, be honest, you can probably recall your first kiss too! And because swapping spit (relatively speaking) is such a profound experience, it makes perfect sense that there would be an entire day that's entirely dedicated to it.Īs far as kissing from a scientific standpoint, I already penned a piece on 15 random kissing facts a while ago. That kiss was so…I guess, "moving" is the appropriate word that we talked off and on until our freshman year in college. It was while we were in New Orleans for a church conference. Now my first kiss with tongue? That was around 12-13. Anyway, that was the first time a little boy put his lips on mine. When I think back on that now, it's a little weird. A cute and popular-as popular as you can be when you're no older than 7-blonde cutie pie named Michael lined all of the girls along the fence on our playground and smooched us.

Technically, it was when I was in the first grade.
