Kissing Facts

Let’s look at some of the best kissing facts the world has witnessed. It’s raining kisses here:

• It is said that an average person has likelihood to spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing in their lifetime.
• Of all the people in the world, 50% have their first kiss before they are 14.
• Kissing was never practiced in China, till the advent of the act by the Westerners. They are still averse to it.
• Kissing is said to have originated in India, a country once known for its uninhibited and shameless display of erotic love and sexuality. However the current scenario is such that kissing is a private affair largely in the country and mostly even considered taboo in the rural areas. India is the land where Kamasutra, the treatise on lovemaking skills originated. It was a country where the courtesans and whores entertained the rich maharajas and nobles with different positions in sex and varieties of kissing techniques. The country which was once known to have given birth to ‘kiss’ began to put a veil over its face with changing times as the country was faced with economic hardships and had to marshal its resources in getting freedom from the British. Romance and casual eroticism in the air took a back seat as shyness and protecting the modesty of the woman became a predominant part of the culture. Now, with modernism and media furore, the urbanites have broken free from the shackles of conservative life and the romance and bold kisses have come back in the movies and general life.
• The ancient Egyptians never kissed with their mouths. They used their noses for kisses. Seems that they had a nose for kissing!
• If your wife is plump, kiss her. You can burn around 26 calories in a one minute steamy kiss. You make use of only two muscles on your face when you give a peck kiss but you use all of your facial muscles and burn more calories during a passionate kiss.
• In Chile, the first record of the largest number of kisses in a single day publicly took place in January where 4,445 couples participated. The glory didn’t last long as the record was beaten when 5122 Philippine coupes merged together at midnight and kissed with enthusiasm on the Valentine’s Day of 2004.
• On the same Valentine's Day 2004, an Italian couple kissed their way into the record books with a 31-hour 18-minute Valentine kiss. The couple beat the earlier record by 18 minutes and 33 seconds. The man had to receive oxygen afterwards.
• The World's Longest Kiss is upheld by Karmit Tsubera and Dror Orpaz, on April 5. 1999 for a record 30 hours and 45 minutes to win a kissing bout in Rubin Square, Tel Aviv, Israel. This point is debated by the claims that the longest recorded kiss actually took place on January 28, 2002. Louisa Almodovar and Rich Langly of New Jersey has been reported to kiss for a record 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds on a segment of "Ricki Lake".
• Serial kisser: On September 15, 1990, Alfred Wolfram from New Brighton kissed 8001 people in just 8 hours, which averages to over sixteen people a minute, at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival.
• Our brains have special neurons that help us probe each other lips in the dark.
• It is stated on record that Canadian porcupines kiss one another on the lips. Talk about animal love!
• In medieval Italy kisses were viewed with disdain. If a lady was kissed by a man in public, then she had no choice but to marry him. Adultery and kiss were converted into matrimonial bond whether you liked it or not.
• The first kiss ever shown in a movie was in 1896. The movie was called The Kiss.
• Hershey’s Kisses acquired the name because the machine that manufactures them looks like it is kissing the conveyor’s belt.
• Kissing has a lot of advantages and health related properties. It helps reduce tooth decay. Kissing increases the mouth's production of saliva, and saliva helps clean the mouth thus aides prevention of tooth decay. It is best for removing tooth decay because the extra saliva is good enough to clean your mouth.

It is indicated that men who kiss their wives goodbye before leaving to work have a better income, live a more pleasing life than those who don’t. A man who makes love to his wife more or less steadily and indulges in a lot of petting and smooching is more stable, stress-free and more creative. Those of you who kiss your wives before leaving for work have a chance of living 5 years longer than those who don’t.