How we started kissing

You shouldn't think about it with most people, but if you are in love, a French kiss is heavenly. The French kiss, as English speakers call it, makes two people merge into a unity of love where nothing can come, not even kebab. At least I remember that I wanted to eat the meat and bread and the sauce out of his mouth, pushed through his tongue between my teeth as if I was a child and indeed, with that love, we were completely back at what some scientists, according to some scientists, is the origin of the kiss: premastication.

Children who switch from milk to solid food need some help with that: the parent chews the food fine and puts it in her young mouth. It is a use that people with many animals share: from bonobos to wolves and from birds to earwigs, it goes far back in time.

Yet the kiss, and certainly the French kiss, is not a universal phenomenon in people. There are cultures where falling in love is expressed very differently, for example by biting an eyelash hair. People did kiss in other places, but not with everyone. According to Herodotus, for example, Egyptians did not want to kiss Greeks because that beef ate and the cow in Egypt was a holy animal. Had the father of the historiography run a blue, 2,500 years ago?

The anthropological magazine Sapiens In 2015, a study published that it appeared that of more than one hundred and fifty cultures were kissed in less than half. Cultures with different social classes kiss more than egalitarian cultures of, for example, hunters-gatherers. In her book The Science of Kissing (2011) Sheril Kirshenbaum writes that the Ituri Pygmies in Congo did chew food for their children but never kissed French. Perhaps not … the origin is too close to seem romantic.

« Because cultures of hunter-gatherers can serve as a window to societies from the distant past, it is reasonable to assume that romantic kisses only originated in human history, » writes Sapiens. The romantic kiss is again common in the polar circle according to their research. « An explanation for this is that people like to touch each other. It is therefore possible that when people from head to toe are dressed in thick fur coats, the face and lips the only ones, or at least the most obvious, body parts they can explore. ” Mmm. Would it? Inside, all that fur may not always be on. Still watching the wonderful movie Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), van Zacharias Kunuk.

Perhaps Kissen is also something like the alphabet; The script was invented in different places at different times. It can also be forgotten again. Unfortunately, because during the kebabkus I had felt connected to everyone; With all the people and a lot of animals that came to me and all the people who would come after me; Part of a continuous chain of two each time. Kissing felt like breathing; Something that happens automatically, albeit less often. But Kissen has been learned, by hundreds of paintings and especially films. Hollywood seemed nature. It is culture anyway.

A recent theory says that cushion occurs from insects removing from the fur, as monkeys do. Another theory or fantasy about the origin of pillow is all about reflection. A mouth would be an ultrasound of a vulva (both have lips, yes), breasts an echo of buttocks, tongues an echo of nipples and kissing an ultrasound of fucking. One at first glance less romantic theory or fantasy perhaps, but one that ultimately makes all the participants equal. Which body parts touch each other matters less than they touch each other. The snow melted.

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