Kissing has always been a way of showing love and affection and symbolizes a special bond between two people. But there are some facts about kissing that we aren’t aware of, things that we should all know. Let us take a look at the top 70 interesting facts about kissing.
Arun Chandran
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A Mother’s Hugs Help Her Baby develop Faster
Source: blog.zesty.co.uk
New born babies, toddlers and young children, all love to be smothered with kisses and hugs and that’s what keeps them happy rather than those babies that have no physical contact with their parents.
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Kissing Can Help Boost Your Immune System
According to special research and study in physiology and behavior, researchers have found that kissing can improve our body’s resistance to allergies.
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Most People are Right-Headed Kissers
German researcher Onur Güntürkün discovered this after spying on 224 couples kissing in public places in the United States, Germany and Turkey.
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Your Kissing Style Originates In The Womb.​
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Your lips have a disproportionate number of nerve endings compared to other parts of your body. When your lips touch someone else’s 5 out of 12 of your cranial nerves are engaged.
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More kissing in a relationship is related to how satisfied people say they are in that relationship.
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The muscle you use to pucker your lips is called the “orbicularis oris”. And the shape you make with your mouth mirrors that of a breastfeeding baby, hinting at one possible way that kissing evolved.
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Your First Kiss Can Seal the Deal or Call It Off. When you kiss someone for the first time, you get a spike in the neurotransmitter dopamine, making you crave more. Dopamine can also make you lose your appetite and make it hard for you to sleep.
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Kissing Your Pet Can Cause Excessive Dental Bacteria
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Over time, kissing lowers your levels of stress hormone cortisol, making you feel all safe and secure.
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When you kiss someone your heart beats faster and more oxygen reaches your brain. And it makes your pupils dilate.
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Our Lips are Hardwired to Fire Up the Brain and Parts of Our Body
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Compulsive Kissing Syndrome Exists
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Women tend to rate kissing as more important in relationships than men do.
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One kiss requires 146 muscles to coordinate, including 34 facial muscles and 112 postural muscles.
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Our Love Of Kissing Comes From ... Rats?
Kazushige Touhara and colleagues at the University of Tokyo believe that our affinity for kisses descends from an ancient rat. Mice and men have a surprisingly similar genetic makeup - sharing a common ancestor that lived sometime between 75 and 125 million years ago.
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According to anthropologists, 90 percent of people kiss. But that doesn’t mean that kissing is the same for everyone. Kissing customs vary across the world.
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Kissing for one minute burns 26 calories. So enjoy that chocolate cake, and make up for it later with an extended make-out sesh with your partner.
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When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.
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Kissing someone is more sanitary than shaking hands, if you want to avoid a cold.
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Philematology is the science of kissing. The scientific term for French kissing is cataglottism.
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The first time two men kissed on-screen was in 1927.
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The average person spends two weeks of his life Kissing.
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In Nevada, it is illegal to kiss with a mustache.
Source: www.slate.com
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The average age in the UK for a first kiss is 15. Fewer than half the world's cultures engage in romantic kissing, a study found.
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The word “kiss” comes from the Old English word cyssan, which technically means “to kiss.” No one is completely positive where cyssan comes from, but people suspect that it represented the sound people make when they kiss.
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At roughly 18 million years old, Mangaia Island is the oldest island in the Pacific Ocean. Despite all the time its inhabitants have had, they’d never heard of kissing until the English introduced them to the practice in the 1700s.
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Many Animals Other Than Humans Kiss
Even though it might not be exactly how we do it, several other animals engage in affectionate behavior that’s remarkably similar to our kissing. Chimpanzees oftentimes demonstrate kiss-like behavior after a fight as a way to “kiss and make up” so to speak.
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Crazy as it may sound in 2014, there are still many countries where public affection is illegal. In Mexico, university professor Manuel Berumen was arrested for kissing his wife in public. In some countries, though, the punishments are extremely brutal. In 2010, a Saudi Arabian man was arrested for hugging and kissing a woman. He was found guilty and sentenced to three sets of 30 lashes each, plus four months in prison.
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Diseases which can be transmitted through kissing include mononucleosis and herpes. Contraction of HIV through kissing is extremely unlikely, though one woman was infected in 1997 when the woman and infected man both had gum disease. Transmission was likely through the man’s blood a