Ok! This post is going to be about kissing..need some titillating and salacious post to jazz up this pre-weekend night! =P Let’s talk about KISSING!!!!

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous“. Ingrid Bergman

1) According to anthropologists, 90 percent of the people in the world kiss. Whether, why and how people kiss depends largely on psychological, biological and social factors.

2) Four Vedic Sanskrit texts, written in India around 1500 B.C., appear to describe people kissing…After its first mention in writing, kissing didn’t appear much in art or literature for a few hundred years. The Indian epic poem “Mahabharata” describes kissing on the lips as a sign of affection. The Indian religious text “Vatsyayana Kamasutram,” or the “Kama Sutra,” also describes a variety of kisses. . So =P the indians are the first to kiss?

3) Anthropologists who believe that kissing is a learned behavior theorize that the Greeks learned about it when Alexander the Great invaded India in 326 B.C.

4) There aren’t many records of kissing in the Western world until the days of the Roman Empire. Romans used kisses to greet friends and family members. Citizens kissed their rulers’ hands. And, naturally, people kissed their romantic partners. The Romans even came up with three different categories for kissing:
Osculum was a kiss on the cheek
Basium was a kiss on the lips
Savolium was a deep kiss

5) The Roman Emperor Tiberius banned kissing between 14AD and 37AD to try to stop the spread of the disfiguring disease mentagra.

6) When you kiss, hormones and neurotransmitters rush through your body. Along with natural endorphins, they produce the euphoria most people feel during a good kiss. In addition, your heart rate increases and your blood vessels dilate, so your whole body receives more oxygen than it does when you’re just standing around. You can also smell the person you’re kissing, and researchers have demonstrated a connection between smells and emotions.

7) A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories!!!

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!

9) About 80 per cent of men and women turned their heads to the right when moving in on their target. The left-leaning 20 per cent minority are much “less emotional” than their right-thinking counterparts.

10) Last year, a team of German psychologists said people who kissed their spouses each morning would live five years longer than those who didn’t. Kissers also had fewer car accidents, fewer sick days and earned 20 to 30 per cent more than non-kissers. =P

SO guys and gals, what are you WAITING for?