Everybody, who has tried kissing, will agree. They loved to be kissed, and to kiss. You remember your first kiss, some one asks you or you ask yourself how it's going to be. The answer is "wet." Kissing starts off weird, but also utterly enjoyable. As if to tell us this is how it is suppose to be. We know from the kisses that it starts certain tingles and jingles that leads us to want to procreate... But what is it evolutionary, that made us want to put our mouths together inorder that we may be turned on. You'll notice, you never want to have sex with someone who is a bad kisser. It must be some kind of instinctual drive, such as other obvious drives.
A person with muscle rather than fat, hunter-gatherer better skill: More resources for the group.
Wide hips and proportionally large breasts lead to lower mortality rates: increase the family.
My question is what evolution or drive is build into man that kissing should be a driving quality as well. Does anybody know?
2007-07-27 05:17:54 · 4 answers · asked by Ben A 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I believe that the kissing process has evolved in a social, rather than biological, sense.
In primitive times, humans tended to cut to the chase rather quickly. There wasn't much preliminary cultural mores that needed to be followed.
As we humans evolved socially and culturally, we tended to create this ritualistic process that was accepted as a method for becoming acquainted with another person, and gradually progressing through a long series of social steps which culminated in more intimate activities.
Kissing became a prelude to further endeavors. Of course, if the kissing is unacceptable, the courtship ritual may be cut short.
2007-07-27 05:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I use a good combination of both. I am a very passionate kisser. Kisses say alot about how you feel for that person. Kissing just with lips is a sign of affection. With tongue is a sign of affection but with alot more sexual suggestion. Usually when Im kissing a girl (and i dont kiss girls unless im either ready to date them or dating them) I start kissing with just lips, then I slowly start to use a little tongue, then back to like a few just lips kisses, then more tongue, and eventually just making out for an hour or so haha My description of a "best kiss" would pretty much be how I always kiss because Ive never really known anything else. And I mean, well...I really really enjoy the way I kiss, and literally every girl i have kissed as told me "you are an amazing kisser" lol so I think that i am kissing the "best" way for me.
2016-03-16 00:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness: It is in the kiss alone that one sometimes seems to feel this union of souls after which we strive, the intermingling of hearts, as it were.
Do you remember the verses of Sully-Prudhomme:
Caresses are nothing but anxious bliss,
Vain attempts of love to unite souls through a kiss.
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/bookid.832/sec./
Surely, there is more to your tongue than merely its tip. Probe further. Go deeper. Gently caress each other's tongues. For, in doing this, you are merging your souls. That is why this kiss was called the "soul" kiss by the French who were said to be the first people to have perfected it. The French have always been a liberal minded people. And, it is because of the fact that they dropped Puritanism many years ago, that they were able to perfect themselves in the art of love and, particularly, in the art of kissing.
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Kissing/00000021.htm
The only kiss that counts is the one exchanged by two people who are in love with each other. That is the first essential of the satisfying kiss. For a kiss is really the union of two soul-mates who have come together because they were made for each other. The reason for this is that the kiss is really the introduction to love, true love. The kiss prepares the participants for the love life of the future. It is the foundation, the starting point of sexual love. And it is for that reason that the manner in which the kiss is performed is so vitally important.
"Sophia returned my kiss and the earth went from under my feet; my soul was no longer in my body; I touched the stars; I knew the happiness of angels!"
http://www.net127.com/kissing/
The great art in kissing is explained in Kama
Suthra:
http://www.freekamasutra.com/ebook_online/2-03.htm
For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
- Judy Garland
When you kiss me
Without uttering a single word
You speak to my soul
- Unknown
The soul that can speak through the eyes
Can also kiss with a gaze
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul thro'
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
- Alfred Tennyson
Kissing involves more than mere nerve endings
at the lips. This has been felt through ages.
2007-07-27 16:13:15 · answer #3 · answered by d_r_siva 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, evolution had nothing to do with it, because it never happened! Only God could create something(and did) as enjoyable as a kiss. That is another beautiful thing about being a child of God, is the beautiful way He made us, and the way we are able to show love to eachother. And another thing, a kiss just seems to lose its charm to me when like you said, oh is it some basic instinct. Yeah right. Then why aren't monkey's or apes or whatever you think we came from still kissing today, ever seen a monkey make out scene, ha ha, don't make me laugh. Or better yet, why aren't they still evolving??????
2007-07-27 05:35:39 · answer #4 · answered by suthurnbabe 2 · 7⤊ 3⤋
It's because our lips have the most nerve endings in them than any other part of our body, so when they touch anothers soft, luscious lips, it's magical :)
***ps- not everything has to be explainable by evolution.
2007-07-27 05:23:36 · answer #5 · answered by cuteness 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋