20 Things You Didn't Know About Kissing
by What's in a kiss? You may be thinking, 'I pucker up; He/She puckers up; What more is there to it?'
Ahhh, what more indeed? Well, did you know.........
- The 1927 movie Don Juan had 127 onscreen kisses. This remains the record.
- In 1926 in Japan, where kissing was considered "unclean, immodest, indecorous, ungraceful and likely to spread disease," Tokyo's Prefect of Police cut 800,000 feet of celluloid kisses from American movies.
- Typically a person has their first kiss around the age of 14.
- After the first kiss, we will then spend over 20,000 minutes kissing before we die.
- The longest kiss in history: 29 hours.
- Underwater: 2 minutes and 18 seconds.
- Ancient Romans eye-kissed as their form of greeting.
- In medieval Italy, if a man and a woman were seen kissing in public, they could be forced to marry. This pretty much kept PDAs in check.
- Nose rubbing, once thought to be an Eskimo-only form of kissing, a result of their wearing so many clothes, is practiced by Polynesians and Malaysians, too.
- It's a crime to kiss a "stranger" in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. How this is enforced isn't clear: Having kissed, are you still strangers?
- Mustached men who "habitually kiss human beings" in Indiana are breaking the law and should seek an alternative.
- There is, apparently, no legal obstacle to kissing, say, cows in Indiana.
- In Boston, Massachusetts, the law forbids kissing in front of a church. Like there was a crowd there anyway.
- Husbands who kiss their wives before leaving home every day live up to five years longer than those who do not. This is a scientific fact.
- A kiss burns 26 calories per minute on average. More if done with enthusiasm. They ran tests for that.
- Heat seeking: Tests have discovered special neurons in people's brains that help locate each others lips in the dark.
- You're more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing.
- Kissing stimulates the production of saliva, which washes away bits of food and bacteria, thus preventing cavities - that's why the Academy of General Dentistry endorses it.
- The Bible endorses kissing as a gesture of kindness when it says, "Greet one another with a kiss of love" (1 Peter 5:14).
- It took pilgrims visiting St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome 503 years to kiss the toes off the metal statue of St. Peter. The lip-friction simply wore away the metal.
printed w/o permission from gear magazine
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86 Comments
#5 why?! and #16 nice
#5 is prob one of those stupid guiness book things
most likely... weirdo's
We have a radio station called Kiss FM, and they have an annual "kiss off". a big party at a trashy bar, and they have everyone start kissing at the same time, and the couple that kisses the longest gets concert tickets. I think that's what they get anyway. kind of dumb if you ask me.
i'll kiss my girlfriend for concert tickets. why not. i kiss her all the time for no tickets.
so between #14 & #15...this could be a great morning workout!
I read this the other day on MSN
well now, THAT would have saved some time...can u find the link?
kissing is gross unless u havea clean mouth
well who kisses people with dirty mouths. no thanks. i pass.
I vaguely remember kissing... (heh)yeah, I like to have a clean mouth (gum or rinse with water in a pinch) and it is pretty gross to kiss someone after eating, unless it's a peck on the lips (other stuff later, but this is a family friendly site, so I won't go into that)
if you love someone who cares...no time for flossing, brushing and rinsing between meals and kisses. no spontaneity = no fun
listerene fresh mint strips!
hows about orbit gum!
its rockin........! good stuff right there
yea, unless you dont like the taste....
yea yea makeout gum
swapping makeout gum.....
I'm chemically addicted
to gum or to kissing?
Well..I meant to the mints but now that you pose that question
Yeah, whatever...
hahaha so much anger...
What about people who are claustraphobic?
my snapple fact the other day was similar to #4, it said we will spend an average of two weeks kissing in our lifetime. (i'm bad at math, but that sounds about the same) i plan on making it three weeks for myself. :)
is this story stating that people should kiss more?
i think it is dan, and as long as you arent kissing me go kiss till your lips fall off i say!
#3, Hmmmm. I wonder what the typical age is for people on say, Ezabel?
should that be the next poll?
Those lips make me shudder every time I look at them
they look like they need some chapstick. ick
that's an 80's lipstick color...
does anyone remember the samples of lipstick from the 80s that were in a shape of lips and you would kiss the sheet to put them on?
ummm, no
i thought that was lsd
I wasn't putting lipstick on in the 80's....
oy girls please these boys aren't getting it...
with your hands on my waist and you kissed me like you meant it
I think number 20 is SOOO funny!
Kiss me once
Kiss me twice
C'mon pretty baby, kiss me deadly
u don't have to watch dynasty to have an attitude
#11 kills me. are they implying that mustached men are not human beings? Or are they saying they can kiss anything but?
it's clearly stating that mustached men are not allowed to kiss humans. i guess the promote gross bestiality in indiana. those weirdos.
remind me never to go to a pacers game.
well unless you have fur and four legs, you shouldn't have a problem in indiana w/ mustached men trying to kiss you. but you never know...
i take it from #12 that indians just didn't want to leave out the possibilities
indians haha read it again.
you laughed...my work here is done
Whats with the topics about KISSING!! The poll's and now the news story!
other way around giac
Giac! i miss ya man, i could make a really funny joke about your comment right now...but i'll refrain. :-D
sounds kinda guilty doesn't it...
like eatin' chocolate on a summer's day
come on do it! be like old times
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Hey Jahanna, We will have to keep this between us, right ;) We wouldnt want to spoil our secrets would we??
hahahaa, well, i'd like to...but i wont! :) hehe
I think #16 its more like smelling the persons breath which helps you locate thier lips, lol
hmm, sounds like you dont LIKE kissing... hahahahhaaha
question, what the heck is an "eye kiss"? what do they like, touch eyeballs together? wouldnt that be kind of hard to do, not to mention dangerous and disgusting?
u give someone that look, yeah u know 'that look' haha
i've seen it in movies about that time period. you kiss someone's eyelid while they have thier eyes shut.
i thought it was butterfly kisses.....
that's when you blink your eyes on someone's cheek
either way its just plain weird
whats a PDA?
personal digital assistant
i have a palm Vx with 8MB of RAM. I use it in public sometimes. but discreetly, like, when no one can see us. I mean, me.
this whacked math teacher from my high school used to jump in between couples shouting "NO PDA NO PDA" (public displays of affection)
you ruined the fun...ok, it wasn't really fun, but u ruined something, i'm sure!
waittt waiittt okay im over it
i was on the school newspaper in HS and we had an article on pd'sa and i said a comment joking, "as long as there are no bodily fluids flying and they're not in my way i don't care what people do in the hallways" and they put it in and used my name despite my protesting the use of my name....
public dispay of affection... dont worry bro, i never knew what it was either... i thought it was an palm too.
so i'm watching jimmy kimmel live...and he showed how this guy proposed to his girlfriend last friday (awwwwwww)...then he showed how the same girl came on stage before friday's show, to participate in a kissing contest with jimmy's uncle (who's a security guard on the show). she was like really getting into it (pretty lewd). anyway, it was just funny to think that 30 mins later her boyfriend's proposing to her. what nice memories they now have.