is kissing biological or cultural?

Question

How old is the art of kissing (making out)?
Did human beings kiss each other (make out) hundreds of years ago? What about thousands of years ago?
Do humans kiss because of an innate biological need, or because of a learned cultural practice?

Answer 1

It can be both; cultural and biological. However, kissing firstly exist thousand of years ago due to non-biological and it slowly developed into biological when the art of sex was naturally invented. Both are equally important in today's life and each has its own function and purpose. The apparent differences between the innate biological kissing and cultural (social ) kissing is biological kissing is urged by sexual desire and therefore tonge and month are tool to satisfy the pleasure. Cultural or social kisses are non of the properties mentioned. The main element is relationship.

Answer 2

Their is a bit of a difference between kissing and making out. Making out would include more than kissing,,,, but short of intercourse. And they are both both.... kissing is part biological, because the mouth is very sensitive,, but part cultural in the style of kissing. Making out in some form is also part biological, as foreplay to intercourse,,, and part cultural in what is acceptable and what is not and style again.

St Paul mentions in the Bible 'a holy kiss',,, so kissing was done that long ago.

Answer 3

It may be biological. It is just an urge to kiss anything you feel like when it is good. For instance, you kiss a puppy becuase it is cute, you kiss a son/daughter when they are say, crying, it is that parental emotion........Having said that kissing a lover has become more a cultural thing.....in some cultures kissing in the open is prohibited and for others it is acceptable....

Answer 4

It's cultural for sure. French people kiss other people on the cheek when meeting up with them. Ameicans don't do that! (at least not from our culture) And I also believe Italians do the kiss on the cheek when greeting someone. But not all countries/cultures do that, so obviously it's not in your blood. People have learned that through the way they learned it while they were growing up.

Answer 5

well if you really heard something a story about Adam & eva, they sending out from heaven just because they eat grains of weet and that establish their harmons which creat a biological lust to get closer to other sex, thats how its prove that its begain from the day of evaloution, and quite a few families culture have kiss as a sign of welcome / goodbye. it goes by women to women,men to men, and men to women also, but about the passionat kissing its also a part of foreplay and its necassary where it has to,.,.,.,.,.,,,these days kissing move its position from forehead or cheeks its go where ever it gives pleasure ,.,.,.,.{^-*}

Answer 6

Both

Answer 7

cultural

Answer 8

nature. my opion?

Answer 9

its in our genes!