A Kiss

A kiss…

Def: Is the touching of one person's lips to another place, which is used as an expression of affection, respect, greeting, farewell, good luck, romantic affection or sexual desire. The word comes from Old English cyssan "to kiss", in turn from coss "a kiss".

Biology and evolution

Anthropologists have not reached a conclusion as to whether kissing is learned or a behavior from instinct. It may be related to grooming behavior also seen between other animals, or arising as a result of mothers premasticating food for their children.

Kissing allows prospective mates to taste and smell each other's pheromones for biological compatibility. Women are subconsciously more attracted to men whose major histocompatibility complex portion of their genome is different from their own, leading to offspring with resistance to a greater number of diseases due to heterosis, and thus having a better chance of survival.

Non-human primates also exhibit kissing behavior. Dogs, cats, birds and other animals display licking and grooming behavior among themselves, but also towards humans or other species. This is sometimes interpreted by observers as a type of kissing.

The physiology of kissing

Kissing is a complex behavior that requires significant muscular coordination; a total of thirty-four facial muscles and 112 postural muscles are used during a kiss.The most important muscle involved is the orbicularis oris muscle, which is used to pucker the lips and informally known as the kissing muscle^. In the case of the French kiss, the tongue is also an important part. Lips have many nerve endings so they are sensitive to touch and bite.

Health benefits

Affection in general has stress-reducing affects. Kissing in particular has been studied in a controlled experiment: increasing the frequency of kissing in marital and cohabiting relationships was found to result in a reduction of perceived stress, an increase in relationship satisfaction, and a lowering of cholesterol levels.

The attributable actions of Kissing

One needs to understand that as such actions inherently within us, there as been developments into understanding the different actions that have come to be associated with kisses; ranging from the blowing of a kiss to an intimate touching of lips with respective individuals. A show of emotions have come to be associated with this form of actions; from communicating ones affections to relaying one's understanding of what the other person might be feeling deep down. Understanding this feelings alone perhaps draws on many historical events, documented stories, written out journals on all types of behaviours that allow for kissing to take shape.

Note: I wanted to share what a kiss is from different points of view…

Someone asked me a couple of days ago why I don’t like to kiss while I’m in bed with someone; my answer for that was… “I don’t like to kiss unless the person in bed with me will be my partner… ”

Some people will laugh at me and say that what I think is stupid but is actually what I feel I can’t change that, surfing through the net I found this …

"I will not kiss you unless an emotion compels me to" has always led the subjective mind of every individual. Take which ever stance you might prefer to take, kissing definitely can be linked to all kinds of studies been examined through anthrological studies of what we perhaps need to sustain ourselves.

My lips are sealed, I won’t kiss unless I feel something special about a particular person, someone that’s will move every inch of my skin, that special someone. I’m not afraid to use my lips. I just don’t want to share that w/ anyone.

A kiss can also be a double-edged sword; you can either fall for someone because of it or someone can fall for you, anyway the results are always the same, one will end up hurt.

Kisses, use them wisely cause you’ll never know if they can be someone’s weakness!

Source: Wikipedia.com