[SunkenCiv]

Image Credit : Dr Barbara Veselka

[ought-six]

“Kissing” is not unknown among non-human primates. They may not “slip the tongue” but they do “smooch.”

[MercyFlush]

Sorry to say but British guys who have bad teeth isn’t really much of a surprise.

[V_TWIN]

*Caution*.....adult content

https://youtu.be/oeCDnCcwfwU

[Paleo Conservative]

In fact, centuries later, the Roman Emperor Tiberius tried to ban kissing at official functions to prevent disease spread, a decree that may have been herpes-related. However, for most of human prehistory, HSV-1 transmission would have been “vertical”: the same strain passing from infected mother to newborn child.

Two-thirds of the global population under the age of 50 now carry HSV-1, according to the World Health Organisation. For most of us, the occasional lip sores that result are embarrassing and uncomfortable, but in combination with other ailments – sepsis or even COVID-19, for example – the virus can be fatal. In 2018, two women died of HSV-1 infection in the UK following Caesarean births.

My mother had cold sores. I never caught them from her. I also never caught them anywhere else.

[Jewbacca]

Given how monkeypox and AIDs spread, I bet the clay pipe isn’t the only pipe the vector smoked.

[NWFree]

Cave sluts

[Wuli]

“The authors of the study, published in the journal Science Advances, say the Neolithic flourishing of facial herpes detected in the ancient DNA may have coincided with the advent of a new cultural practice imported from the east: romantic and sexual kissing...”

I don’t believe the analysis.

Asian societies long held less favoratism to kissing than Mediterranean and European cultures, right up to the modern era.

[Bobalu]

I’ve never had a cold-sore or herpes or anything like that...
I’m so lonely :-/

lol

[for-q-clinton]

Probably sex with monkeys started it.

[BenLurkin]

ibthtp

[TexasFreeper2009]

homo’s been spreading disease since time immortal. The only way to avoid them was to marry a virgin.