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two people deciding their faces should briefly become roommates and somehow calling it romance
means To touch or press your lips against someone or something as a sign of affection, greeting, or respect.
from From Old English 'cyssan,' to kiss, with cousins all across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'kyssa,' Dutch 'kussen,' German 'küssen.' The whole clan likely traces back to a shared Proto-Germanic root, 'kussjan,' which may itself be an imitative word — that soft little 'kuss' sound the lips make. So the word might literally be the noise of the act, frozen into language.
- science name
- the study of kissing is called philematology
- germ swap
- a ten-second kiss trades 80 million bacteria
- brain hit
- it floods you with oxytocin, dopamine, adrenaline
- ancient roots
- first recorded kiss is in 1500 BCE India
- why we tilt
- two-thirds of people lean their heads right
the kiss by rodin — famous marble sculpture created 1888, depicts two nude figures in an intimate embrace
kiss cam — sports stadium tradition where jumbotron zooms in on couples, first popularized at chicago bulls games in 1990s
kiss the ring — papal tradition where visitors kiss the pope's fisherman's ring, practiced for centuries at vatican