When you really think about it, kissing is pretty gross. It involves saliva and mucous membranes, and it may have historical roots in chewed-up food. Experts estimate that hundreds or even millions of bacterial colonies move from one mouth to another during a kiss. Doctors have also linked kissing to the spread of diseases like meningitis, herpes and mononucleosis.
Moreover, the odor ... yuck! ... Is it necessary for me to know what you've eaten and your personal hygiene? Just kissing the closed, non-licked lips is fine. French? No thanx. Why are the French quite well-known about their dirtiness?! They invented parfum just not to have to wash themselves as often as they should? Anyway, why is kissing an exhibition of affection?
No one knows for sure, but anthropologists think kissing might have originated with human mothers feeding their babies much the way birds do. Mothers would chew the food and then pass it from their mouths to their babies' mouths. After the babies learned to eat solid food, their mothers may have kissed them to comfort them or to show affection.
Gosh! ~ That's gross! ~ I had enough mum. Stop it!! Afterall, kissing the ass isn't too bad.
[Kissing the Blarney Stone]
Kissing: fast facts
Science World [Feb 7, 2003]
* The science of kissing is called philematology.
* A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories measuring energy-producing potential of food).
* Kissing releases the same neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain) as intense exercise, like parachuting or distance running. The heart beats faster and breathing becomes deep and irregular.
* Saliva, the mucus-filled slime that wets the mouth, crawls with microscopic bacteria (single-cell organisms) that enter from air, food, and dirty hands. Between 10 million and 1 billion colonies (groups of bacteria) are swapped with each smooch! But saliva also contains antibacterial chemicals that kill most bacteria before the germs are exchanged in a kiss.
* A simple pucker uses two muscles, the upper and lower orbicularis otis surrounding the lips. A passionate kiss uses all 34 facial muscles.
Are you ready to kiss?
Kissing: fast facts
Science World [Feb 7, 2003]
* The science of kissing is called philematology.
* A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories measuring energy-producing potential of food).
* Kissing releases the same neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain) as intense exercise, like parachuting or distance running. The heart beats faster and breathing becomes deep and irregular.
* Saliva, the mucus-filled slime that wets the mouth, crawls with microscopic bacteria (single-cell organisms) that enter from air, food, and dirty hands. Between 10 million and 1 billion colonies (groups of bacteria) are swapped with each smooch! But saliva also contains antibacterial chemicals that kill most bacteria before the germs are exchanged in a kiss.
* A simple pucker uses two muscles, the upper and lower orbicularis otis surrounding the lips. A passionate kiss uses all 34 facial muscles.
Are you ready to kiss?
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