I started late to kissing…
There was always the Grandma, Auntie peck on the cheek which I always tried to avoid. I am surprised that they continued to insist as I'm sure my face must have looked like I had just tasted bitter lemon.
My first kiss was probably when I was about eight; I remember vaguely receiving it under duress. I wasn't interested in girls much then, trees and making camps were far more interesting. I think I did like to show off to girls, but I didn't expect any reaction other than distain, and if I got any other reaction I ran!
Cutting to the present day I feel I am in a position to be able to be objective about kissing. I haven't kissed that many people but enough to realise just how much kisses varies from person to person.
Some don't open their mouth at all, some don't hold a kiss for long, some try to stick their tongue down your throat, some kiss hard, some kiss soft, some vary their kiss, others have one technique that they use over and over.
A persons physical attributes affect how they kiss, most obviously the size of someone's lips, also the length of someone's tongue, the softness of their lips, the taste of their mouth, the shape of their teeth.
All these things are what make kissing so intimate and special. You can have 'your kiss' with your boyfriend or girlfriend. It is only yours and if you split up you can't recreate that kiss with anyone else.
There is an Arab Strap (a Scottish band) song called 'New Birds' about this very thing, it describes the chance meeting of a guy with his old girlfriend:
"You
remember the way she swung her arms when she held your hand but you can't remember
how she kissed and now you've got the chance to find out. "
"But you have to remember there's this other kiss. And she's sitting at home, wondering where you are and what you're doing. And you work hard on this kiss and you know it inside out, it's as much yours as it is hers, and it took a long time to get right, it took months of practice and months of embarrassment but now you've got it perfected and you've been looking forward to that kiss all week. "
While he is curious to remember their old Kiss he remembers that he has a special kiss waiting for him back home and he doesn't kiss the old girlfriend.
Kissing
can be a greating, innocent fun, passionate or a sign of love...Kissing is great
:)