Monday, March 14, 2011

More good kissing

No, not mine.

Salon.com is featuring this link to the multimedia magazine GOOD and its examination of the subject, which itself is a video riff on the recent study The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us by Sheril Kirshenbaum.

(Talk about derivative.)

Nonetheless, it's a compilation of most kisses-on-video you might care to see.


My favorite factoids:
-- Around 90% of the world's cultures kiss and 2/3 of us tilt our heads to the right.

-- A kiss can be 10 times more effective than morphine in reducing pain.

-- In the Middle Ages, illiterates could seal legal deals with an "x" and a kiss ... which is how the kiss got its "x" signature.

-- Passionate kissing burns 6.4 calories per minute. 1 Hershey Kiss = 26 calories. That's a 4-minute kiss.

-- When people kiss they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

@Karin. Shows why I was never much of a kisser. Thanks for this interesting information.:-)


-----squigkato