20 Interesting facts about kiss

There’s more to kissing than most people think. These are collections of facts about kissing. Some are brought by science or show business.

1. Thirty-seven percent of men keep their eyes open while kissing whereas 97 percent of women close theirs.

2. A one minute kiss can burn as many as twenty six calories.

3. Research shows that almost every muscle in the body can be used when two people kiss.

4. It is said that if you kiss a person with the same hair color as you, the result is more passionate.

5. In a lifetime we can expect to receive some 25,000 kisses, ranging from pecks on the cheek to the full-blown weak-at-the-knees variety.

6. Our brains have special neurons which help us to locate another pair of lips in the dark.

7. A kiss can be ten times more effective than morphine in reducing pain, as it’s thought that it activates the body’s natural pain-killers. So when a mother tells her injured child that she’ll kiss it better, that’s exactly what she does.

8. The Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses. Lips didn’t come into it.

9. The average person spends around fourteen days of their life kissing.

10. The longest kiss lasted for 17 days, 10½ hours in Chicago, 1984. The longest screen kiss between Jane Wyman and Reg Toomey, who smooched for 185 seconds in You’re in the Army Now in 1940.

11. It is still technically illegal in Indiana for a mustached man to “habitually kiss human beings.”

12. In medieval Italy, if a couple were seen kissing, they could be forced to marry.

13. The most famous screen kiss of all time has got to be Between Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind. But in reality, Gable’s false teeth and whisky-laden breath made Leigh shudder with distaste!

14. Kissing acts as a beauty treatment. It makes your eyes shine and your skin glow.

15. Babies who are kissed are often more affectionate in later life.

16. Men that kiss their wives before you going to work, live five years longer.

17. A passionate kiss lasting 90 seconds increases the blood pressure, pulse and blood hormone levels, which in term shortens life by one minute.

18.According to U.S. statistics, a woman kisses about 80 men before marriage.

19. Kissing helps women to relax and reduce stress.

20. Kissing people of the Far North – is more than just rubbing noses. After touching their organs of smell, the Eskimos open lips while inhale, then exhale, pressing her lips. After enjoying the flavor of each other, the lovers press their nose to cheek of partner and wait  for a minute or longer.

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5 Benefits of Kissing

Do you know, kissing is more than just the lips and tongues entwined with each other. In addition to increase the intimacy of a couple, kissing also bring many other benefits for the body. Do not believe?

Enhance immunity

According to a recent study published in the journal Medical hypotheses, published recently, kissing women can boost immunity against Cytomegalovirus. Viruses that spread by word of mouth contact, can cause blindness and birth defects if the mother is a carrier during pregnancy. However, these viruses are relatively harmless for adults. Kissing is considered as a means of transmission of the virus and thereby strengthening the immune system.

Choosing the best pair

Helen Fisher, an anthropologist, describes the couple kissing as an assessment tool. Most of the cortex is intended to receive sensations from around the lips, cheeks, tongue, and nose. From 12 nerves in the skull, five of them to take data from around the mouth. Nerves were designed to select the most sensitive feelings, ie taste, smell, touch and temperature of the most complicated.

Well, when you kiss someone, you really can hear, see, and feel them. So, kissing is not just a kiss, but also reveal who you are, what you want, and what you can give.

Meanwhile, other researchers noted that kissing is a biological way to determine who the couples who are genetically most compatible with you. During’’smooch, there are hard-wired mechanism that assesses the health, reproductive status, and genetic compatibility,’’said Gordon G. Gallup Jr., A professor of evolutionary psychology at the State University of New York, Albany, who studies the competition and the reproductive biology of interpersonal attraction. Therefore, what happens during the first kiss really could be a determinant of suitability of a partner.

Burn calories

Based on a variety of different reports, kissing activity able to burn calories as much as 2-6 in one minute. Although not the same as when you’re jogging on a treadmill, an hour kissing is worth half a handheld burning brown M & Ms or half a glass of wine.

Tighten the facial muscles

Never underestimate the mouth as long as you do exercises kissing session. Some researchers say, when you use 30 muscles to help tighten the kiss and kiss on the cheek.

Relaxation

Kissing is naturally capable of making you feel relaxed. Based on scientific reports by researchers, kissing raise levels of the hormone oxytocin and endorphins, which serves to calm and make the body feel good. In addition, exchanging saliva while kissing is also able to increase dopamine levels, which add a romantic feeling.

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