Posted on 11/06/2007 8:16:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Mystery still surrounds the motive for that very first kiss. As anthropologist Helen Fisher, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, notes, many species engage in behaviour that looks suspiciously similar. Snails use their antennae to caress, birds nibble beak-to-beak, and many mammals lick or gently gnaw each other. So maybe kissing is just an animal impulse? ...while chimp kisses don't get more lascivious than a quick peck, bonobous revel in sloppy, tonguey tonsil-hockey. Some trace the evolutionary origins of the kiss to mouth-to-mouth feeding of offspring, a behaviour observed in many species of birds and mammals. This could have led to kissing as a sign of affection between mother and child; a gesture that spread to other relationships. But some anthropologists point out that the people who still feed their young in this way -- the Papuans of New Guinea and the San of southwest Africa -- were strangers to kissing before Europeans arrived. For Freud, kissing was a subconscious return to infancy and suckling at the mother's breast, and many researchers since have noted the parallels.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmosmagazine.com ...
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Sorry, I can’t be trusted to post of this thread.
*Darn* and I had so much to say......
“of” should be “on” — see? “of” rhymes with “love” — I can’t be trusted!
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I’ve heard numerous terms for kissing before, like swapping spit, lip lock, etc.
but this is the first time I ever heard the term “tonsil hockey.”
“many mammals lick or gently gnaw each other”
My mind is working overtime
“Tonsil hockey?”
I can’t speak for the rest of you, but this article took all the mystique out of it for me!
I am so shocked!!
That’s so sweet.
Actually, it was taken right before he slammed into her at 55 MPH.
She was in traction for months.
I have a coffee mug that says "Don't Interrupt Me I'm Having A Sexual Fantasy", do you need to borrow it right now?
Wow! Who knew I was a scientist!?
I guess he really swept her off her feet, huh?
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