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KISSING TRIVIA
A collection of kissing trivia and unusual kissing facts from around the web.
The average person will spend an estimated 20,160 min kissing in their lifetime.
Ancient Egyptians never kissed with their mouths. Instead they kissed with their noses.
You use 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.
More than 4,400 couples poured in the streets in Chile
for a 10 second kiss, setting the world record for the largest number of
people kissing simultaneously.
On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
The longest on-screen kiss was the 3 minutes, 5 second
liplock between Jane Wyman and Regis Tommey in "You're in the Army Now."
More than 5,300 couples locked lips for at least 10 seconds in Manila, Philippines to kick off Valentine's Day 2005. This breaks Chile's old record of 4,445 couples.
Our brains have special neurons that help us find eachothers lips in the dark
The science of kissing is called philematology.
First Kiss
50% of all people kiss have their first kiss before they are 14.
Kissing helps reduce tooth decay because the extra saliva helps clean out your mouth.
On Valentine's Day 2004, 5,122 Philippine coupes
gathered together at midnight and locked lips. This kissathon beat the
previous world record of 4,445 couples set in January in Chile.
The Chinese didn't kiss until the practice was introduced by Westerners, and they're still not very keen on it.
You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
Kissing releases the same neurotransmitters (chemical
messengers in the brain) as those that are released when you engage in
intense exercise such as running a marathon or skydiving. This causes
your heart to beat faster and your breathing to become deep and
irregular.
Some theorize that when you kiss a person with the same
hair color as yourself, the result is a more passionate kiss.
On September 15, 1990, Alfred Wolfram from New Brighton kissed 8001 people in just 8 hours, over sixteen people a minute, at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival.
https://www.romancestuck.com/kissing/kissing-trivia.htm
Did you know that the practice of a man kissing his
wife at the end of the day started with the ancient Romans? Those
gladiators wanted to taste their ladies lips to make sure they hadn’t
been drinking that homemade wine all day!
Did you know we'll
spend an average of two weeks kissing in our lifetimes? And that the
average woman will kiss 79 guys before she's married? That's a whole lot
of window shopping!
Did you know watching chick flicks boosts your hormones in a way that leaves you
feeling frisky for some kissing? Next time your guy wants to see some
action film, tell him he'll get some action if he sees a good date movie
with you!
Did you know oysters,
champagne and caviar are not the only aphrodisiacs? A bucket of
buttered popcorn, black licorice, pumpkin pie, donuts and cheese pizza
can get a guy's libido pumping. For girls, it's about banana nut bread
and cucumbers. And get him to share that black licorice with you to get
your smooch on!
Did you know a man
who kisses his lady good-bye when he leaves for work every morning
averages a higher income than a guy who doesn't? Ladies, kiss your men
if you want them to drape you in diamonds and furs!
https://www.kissingbook.com/didyouknow.html
Generally speaking kissing between two women is much more accepted in Western culture. Two men
kissing usually means politicians meeting foreign dignitaries.
In some countries kissing is only considered proper when between two
men, two women, or parents kissing their children. Traditionally kissing
between two men on the lips as a greeting or a farewell was as normal
as the modern Western handshake. The rise of various plagues and
widespread illness caused this custom to become frowned upon in Western
culture.
At the Diocleia festival at Megara a kissing contest was held in which
boys would kiss a male judge, who awarded a laurel wreath to the boy he
deemed the best kisser.
Lord Nelson, the British naval commander, famously requested "Kiss me, Hardy", as he lay dying (they were not his last words).
The history of homosexual kisses is relatively short and has few
examples in art history or film. There is Tanya Chalkin's photograph of
two women kissing, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec's The Kiss and also Kissing
in the Bed and of course plenty of erotica and X-rated material, but
not many popular art examples.
https://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Love-Weird-Facts/742402
On August 14, 1997, members of the American Psychological Association voted to limit attempts to "cure" homosexuality and agreed to require
the reading of a statement to gay patients affirming that being gay is
normal and healthy.
Television What show of the 1960's and 1970's had the most homosexual actors? Answer: Bewitched with actors Dick Sargent (Darrin), Diane Murphy (Tabatha), Agnes
Mooreheads (Samantha's mother, and Paul Lynde (Samantha's uncle).
Founded in San Francisco in 1979, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is an order of gay "nuns" involved in charitable and political
activities. Today, the Sisters have grown to include houses in Europe
(England, Germany, and France) as well as in New Zealand and Australia.
The I Ching, a Chinese text used as a divination tool by means
opf interpreting patterns called hexagrams, includes one pattern (the
thirteenth hexagram, T'ung Jen associated with same-sex relationships.
Katharine Lee Bates, best known for writing the lyrics to the song American the Beautiful,
also wrote six volumns of poetry, textbooks, and children's fiction.
Her twenty-five year romance with Katharine Coman ended with Coman's
death, and Bates expressed her grief through a book of forty-seven
sonnets, Yellow Clover: A Book of Remembrance, which was published after Bates died in 1929.
Hall of Shame In 1997, on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, Time magazine published a commemorative issue high-lighting the major events
that had taken place since it first began publication in 1923. Not one
item mentioned gay rights or the AIDS epidemic.
Dr. Mary Walker was presented with a Metal of Honor by President
Andrew Johnson in 1865 for her service as a battlefield doctor during
the Civil War. In 1917, the medal was revoked because of Walker's
feminist activities and the fact that she dressed as a man. In 1977, the
Army posthumously restored her medal.
In June 1997, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to boycott the Walt Disney Company because of their belief that the company promotes homosexuality in its
films and television programs, and because Disney offers domestic
partner benefits to its employees.
The Group (1966), was the first mainstream Hollywood film to use the word "lesbian". It starred Candace Bergen in the lesbian role.
Before words like gay and homosexual, gay men were referred to as Urnings.
It was coined by German sexologist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in the 1860s
and referred to a "third sex", a man's body with a female spirit trapped
inside.
David Kopay was the first professional football player to come
out as gay. While Kopay disclosed his sexual orientation after his
playing career had already ended, he was unable to get a coaching job as
a result of this disclosure and ended up working at his uncle's
linoleum store.
In July of 1997, Harvard University became the first major university to allow same-sex couples to hold commitment ceremonies in the school's main chapel.
Gay Comics. D.C. Comics has produced a
four-book miniseries, Metropolis S.C.U. (Special Crimes Unit), in which
the main character is Captain Maggie Sawyer, a lesbian superhero.
https://www.gayonkauai.com/tidbits.htm.
