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Surprising Facts About Kissing

Some PRO's of Kissing:

Passionate kissing burns 6.4 calories a minute. A Hershey’s kiss contains 26 calories, which takes five minutes of walking–or about four minutes of kissing–to burn off.

French kissing involves all 34 muscles in the face. A pucker kiss involves only two.
Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of the fingers. Not even genitals have as much sensitivity as lips.
Kissing is good for teeth. The anticipation of a kiss increases the flow of saliva to the mouth, giving the teeth a plaque-dispersing bath
Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss.
The most important muscle in kissing is the orbicularis oris, also known as the kissing muscle, which allows the lips to “pucker.”
The Romans created three categories of kissing: (1) Osculum, a kiss on the cheek, (2) Basium, a kiss on the lips, and (3) Savolium, a deep kiss.
The Four Vedic Sanskrit texts (1500 B.C.) contain the first mention of a kiss in writing.
Scientists believe that kissing may be a way of exchanging body salts or sebum that form relationships with parents and lovers, just as it does some birds. During mating, some birds chew food, then kiss-feed it to a prospective mate. If a bird’s sebaceous glands are removed so there is no sebum, its mate flies off.
The Kama (desire) Sutra (type of verse) lists over 30 types of kisses, such as “fighting of the tongue"
Pliny asserts that kissing a donkey’s nostril will cure the common cold.
A medieval manuscript warns Japanese men against deep kissing during the female orgasm because a woman might accidentally bite off part of her lover’s tongue

Some CONS of kiss:

Diseases which can be transmitted through kissing include mononucleosis (“kissing disease”) 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 and not his saliva.
The mouth is full of bacteria. When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.

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