12 interesting facts about the history of the kiss

Statistical studies have shown that people remember to 85-90 per cent of all the details for which there was their first kiss. This memory is 2-3 times less than the details of the death and funeral of their parents, the loss of virginity, or the birth of their first child.

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The first is that the root cause of a kiss is motherhood. When a child throwing a chest, but I could not even bite and chew on their own solid food, for it is the mother did, to turn food into a liquid slurry, and then pass it on to their offspring, so to speak, by word of mouth. Then the action began to play the role of pacifiers: to deceive and calm the child, the mother simply touched her lips to his, simulating the process of feeding. But in the end touch lips lips acquired the meaning of tenderness and affection.

The second theory sees the kiss simple imitation of animals. For example, birds that during courtship dances, among other manipulation, touch each other with their beaks (hence - "miluyutsya as doves"). Or - "kissing fish" gourami. True, gourami in fact it is not a manifestation of tenderness: because the males fight for territory and females. They just face off mouths: one is smaller, the inglorious leaving "battlefield».

A third theory says that a kiss from our ancestors supposed peaceful intentions: touching outstretched lips instead of fierce grin teeth, ready to grab the throat of the enemy.

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Meanwhile, a kiss on the screen of those years looked over innocently: hero-lover hurriedly jumped to the heroine, embracing her as a session of the French struggle, nodding somewhere that was supposed to depict a kiss, and just as quickly rebounded.

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After the sexual revolution of the 1960s Kiss - on screen and in life - has become a daily and innocent pastime. And there is a new technique: the partners must, above all, well, shark, gaping mouths, and then voluptuously chewing each other, noisy breathing.

via factroom.ru