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Snogging, not jogging
The average person spends two weeks of their life performing Philematology - that's kissing to you and I. This can sound like a long time if you're puckering up with a bad kisser, but take heart - kissing has a number of useful health benefits. Fans of oral hygiene will be delighted to learn that extra saliva may wash bacteria off your teeth, which can help break down plaque. Better still, kissing might help you lose weight. The average kisser burns two calories a minute while smooching. There have even been studies suggesting that people who kiss their spouses goodbye before leaving for work earn higher incomes on average than those heartless people who don't.
Kissing by the book
Some of our finest poets and playwrights have transformed this simple act into a quasi-spiritual experience; a meeting of souls: 'And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips,' wrote Lord Alfred Tennyson. In Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelly describes
'the soft and sweet eclipse,
When soul meets soul on lover's lips'.
Edmond de Rostand's most famous creation, Cyrano de Bergerac, was also a fan of the kiss too:
'a rosy dot
Placed on the 'i' in loving; 'tis a secret
Told to the mouth instead of to the ear.'
But not everyone adored the delights of snogging. 'Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing,' grumbled Irish satirist, Jonathan Swift in Polite Conversation.
The first time?
Our first snog, for better or worse, is etched in our memory. Mine was cold, wet and mildly repugnant. It was also witnessed by my grandmother, who happened to be passing through the room in which my fourteenth birthday party was being held. The thought still makes me hot with shame, but thankfully, things improved and in my (relatively) short life, I've run the gamut from soft and sloppy to firm, fleshy and - to use that word beloved of the Royal Mail - urgent.
Of course, we don't always kiss people we are meant to. This is half the fun. If you find yourself in a compromising position, remember the words of Groucho Marx when his wife caught him kissing a showgirl. 'Kissing? I was whispering in her mouth'.
Snogging, not jogging
The average person spends two weeks of their life performing Philematology - that's kissing to you and I. This can sound like a long time if you're puckering up with a bad kisser, but take heart - kissing has a number of useful health benefits. Fans of oral hygiene will be delighted to learn that extra saliva may wash bacteria off your teeth, which can help break down plaque. Better still, kissing might help you lose weight. The average kisser burns two calories a minute while smooching. There have even been studies suggesting that people who kiss their spouses goodbye before leaving for work earn higher incomes on average than those heartless people who don't.
Kissing by the book
Some of our finest poets and playwrights have transformed this simple act into a quasi-spiritual experience; a meeting of souls: 'And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips,' wrote Lord Alfred Tennyson. In Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelly describes
'the soft and sweet eclipse,
When soul meets soul on lover's lips'.
Edmond de Rostand's most famous creation, Cyrano de Bergerac, was also a fan of the kiss too:
'a rosy dot
Placed on the 'i' in loving; 'tis a secret
Told to the mouth instead of to the ear.'
But not everyone adored the delights of snogging. 'Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing,' grumbled Irish satirist, Jonathan Swift in Polite Conversation.
The first time?
Our first snog, for better or worse, is etched in our memory. Mine was cold, wet and mildly repugnant. It was also witnessed by my grandmother, who happened to be passing through the room in which my fourteenth birthday party was being held. The thought still makes me hot with shame, but thankfully, things improved and in my (relatively) short life, I've run the gamut from soft and sloppy to firm, fleshy and - to use that word beloved of the Royal Mail - urgent.
Of course, we don't always kiss people we are meant to. This is half the fun. If you find yourself in a compromising position, remember the words of Groucho Marx when his wife caught him kissing a showgirl. 'Kissing? I was whispering in her mouth'.
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