| Just think of being in front of a warm | | | | kiss has been with us for a long time.In the |
| cracking with you partner in your hands, with | | | | sixth century in France, dancing was one way |
| a kiss and a cuddle. But have you ever | | | | to display affection, but every dance was |
| thought about why people kiss? It could be a | | | | ended in a kiss.Apparently, Russia was the |
| greeting or a sign of affection, but we all | | | | first to incorporate the kiss into the |
| kiss.Origin of the kissThe strangest theory | | | | marriage ceremony, where a promise was sealed |
| on the history of the kiss that I have heard | | | | with a kiss.The Romans kissed to greet each |
| finds its roots in the age of the cave man. | | | | other. On Roman emperor showed a persons |
| It is thought that in primitive times that a | | | | importance, by what part of his body they |
| mother pre-chewed the food for her baby and | | | | were allowed to kiss, from the cheek to the |
| transferred it 'in a kiss'. Although this | | | | foot.In 16th century England, the |
| could never be proved, it would explain why | | | | clove-studded apple originated. An apple was |
| the kiss is a sign of affection, between | | | | prepared by piercing it with as many cloves |
| mother and child and latter, adults.Another | | | | as the fruit could hold and then a maid then |
| theory that I found was that the kiss was | | | | carried the apple through the fair till she |
| reflected in the Ziller Valley of Central | | | | spied a lad she thought worth kissing. She |
| Europe, where the exchange of pre-chewed | | | | would offer him the apple, and once he'd |
| tobacco between a male and a female was | | | | selected and chewed one of the cloves, they |
| common. The young man would let a tip of the | | | | would share a kiss. After that, the apple |
| piece of tobacco, or spruce resin, etc rest | | | | passed into the man's possession, and he |
| between his closed teeth and invite the girl | | | | would venture off in search of another lass |
| to grasp it with her teeth -- which of course | | | | to continue the game with.At one stage it was |
| obliged her to press her mouth firmly on that | | | | even thought that people found kissing |
| of the young man -- and pull it out. If a | | | | pleasurable because when the two lips met |
| girl accepted the wad of pre-chewed tobacco, | | | | during kissing, an electric current was |
| it meant she returned the boy's love.The | | | | generated.A kiss is a kissNow days, kisses |
| third theory that I found was from a | | | | range from small pecks on the cheeks as a |
| religious or sacred origin. There have been | | | | greeting, to an the use of the lips and |
| examples from around the world as early as | | | | tongue as a sign of passion. It is that |
| 2000 BC, that show that people could have | | | | action that when two people embrace, causes |
| brought their faces together to symbolise | | | | hormones are released into the blood stream, |
| spiritual union. Even in the culture of | | | | inducing a sense of euphoria that you feed in |
| Indians, it was believed that the exhaled | | | | the sweetness of your lovers mouth.It's a |
| breath was part of the soul, and by two | | | | kiss that brings every fibre of your being |
| people bringing their mouths together, showed | | | | alive, turns your stomach over, sends |
| the joining of their souls. (Another | | | | Goosebumps up your spine. It's a kiss that |
| variation on this believed that kissing | | | | forgives your misdemeanours and smiles at |
| evolved from the smelling of a companion's | | | | your mistakes. Ingrid Bergman puts it |
| face as an act of greeting. )Kiss through | | | | together in that "a kiss is a lovely trick |
| historyEven without fully knowing where the | | | | designed by nature to stop speech when words |
| kiss came from, it is well known that the | | | | become superfluous". |