7 interesting facts about kissing

According to Google statistics, the question of "how to kiss" annually takes first place in the ranking of the most popular searches in the search engine. The theme is really interesting. And if the practical part you can do it, I'm sure, yourself, on the theoretical side, we'll help you.

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Not all cultures kisses are valid. A group of specialists in the field of cultural anthropology and gender studies at the Institute Kinsey gathered about 168 cultures of data (including both modern industrial society and the primitive tribes) from all over the world. It was found that only 46 per cent among human cultures kissing considered normal way interaction between man and woman. In 54 per cent of crops are considered as kissing a strange, unnecessary and even repulsive phenomenon.

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People have learned to kiss (at least, in the form as we do now) relatively recently. Vlodarski Rafael (Rafael Wlodarski) of Oxford University has studied written sources in the search for that data as changed human habits, and I found that the earliest mention of kissing has to Hindu Vedic texts on Sanskrit. The age of these manuscripts is about 3500 years old. They said that the kiss - then inhale the soul of each other.

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Microbiologists from the Netherlands calculated that, if the kiss lasts for 10 seconds, during which time the partners have time to exchange 80 million bacteria. As a result, couples who live together for a long time and do not forget at the same time to kiss, have roughly similar in composition of the microflora of the mouth.

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There is a special science for the study of physiological and psychological characteristics of human kiss. It's called filematologiey (philematology, from the Greek. philema, which means "kiss"). But the process itself is called in science osculation.

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The first film, which was sealed by a kiss, was the work of Thomas Edison's The Kiss ( «The Kiss"). This film was a hit of its time due to the great game of actors and profound content. We strongly recommend that you look at this gorgeous adaptation of the musical comedy "The Widow Jones", published in April 1896. The more so because the film lasts only half a minute.

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In Russian history can often find mention of some barmen. However, they have to kiss a very remote relation. So in Kievan Rus called elected officials who carried out the judicial, financial and police duties. Its name derives from the fact that at the time of taking office gave official oath faithfully execute the office, while kissing the cross. Later, in the XIX century, they called tselovalniks sellers in wine shops. They vowed not to dilute the vodka and kissed the cross in the oath for confirmation.

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International Kissing Day (World Kiss Day) was invented in the UK, but it was soon approved by the United Nations as an official international holiday. It celebrated annually on July 6.

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