(October 24, 2016 at 6:25 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: Wikipedia says:
- anthropologists are divided as to whether kissing is intuitive/instinctual or derived from kiss-feeding as noted above;
- kissing is referenced in Sanskrit, Sumerian and Egyptian texts but did not really get to Europe until Alexander the Great; the Romans then spread it all over the friggin world;
- that being said, Romantic/sexual kissing (as opposed to affectionate kissing) is pretty new (within the last couple of centuries);
- in many countries, kissing (especially in public, but not always specified) is a crime; in India, it is technically an offense carrying a penalty of three months in prison (high courts often overrule convictions but it can be used by local governments to harass);
- kissing involves 146 muscles and is associated with brief physiological that are good for the heart and lungs.
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Does anyone know if this coincides with the advent of modern oral hygiene?
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