Key facts about kissing

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 the first rebenka.

1. There are three theories of origin of the kiss.
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 laski.

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 protivnika.

2. All these theories, each of which has its own spectacular and convincing divided, however, on one unexplainable phenomenon - the behavior of chimpanzees. These are our distant relatives touching, quite human, hugging the neck of someone they love, and pressed it to his lips. And none zoopsychologists unable to explain the origin of the expression is nezhnosti.

3. The first written evidence about the kiss in human history date back to the Persian inscriptions which are about 4 thousand years. In the V century BC, Herodotus also mentions the kiss, and also in connection with the Persians. True, this is not the kiss. "The Persians - wrote Herodotus, - equal social status when meeting men kiss each other on the mouth, and unequal - cheek» .

4. zenith habit of kissing has reached the ancient Romans. Kissing all: men, women, children, relatives, friends and acquaintances hardly; kissing everywhere: at home, on the streets and in public places. Lubricate the lips special aromatic lipstick to kiss was nice. In short, it took on the character of madness, and the Emperor Tiberius special decree brought the epidemic to a reasonable or kissing razmerov.

5. The terrible plague and smallpox in Europe, claiming the lives of almost half the population of the continent, have made adjustments to the ancient traditions. By the Renaissance appeared entirely new forms of etiquette: a deep bow waving a hat in front of him (and then it turned into a little bow and a simple touch of the hat); kiss a woman's hand in a glove (later it turned into a slight tilt of the head and shaking of the hand); men appeared handshake when meeting and parting; Finally, there was a "kiss» .

6. In 1896, in New York screened the film "The Kiss". The reaction to it can only be compared with the 12-point storm. Here is what wrote after that "New York Times", "Gargantuan proportions increase to this disgusting spectacle does not cause anything but a sense of nausea. Immediate intervention of the police - that's all it takes ».

7. In the thirties in Hollywood was established iron limitation: the duration of the kiss should not exceed three seconds, kissing had to stand firmly on the ground (no hangs or on the neck, leg raising frivolous, and even more so, no sex in bed). However, very soon it appeared again "or kissing dissidents" - Cary Grant and Clark Gable. And they, of course, imitated all the other actors.

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