It’s a defining moment of any romantic relationship. But don’t you sometimes wonder how humans learned to derive shared pleasure from locking lips?
Suite101.com has a thorough article covering the anthropological origins of the kiss:
So who invented kissing? Anthropologists think kissing’s origins are to be found in primitive times when mothers chewed food and transferred it directly from their mouths to their babies’ mouths, a method of preparing baby food that is still practiced in some cultures today. Another theory comes from the Ziller Valley of Central Europe where pre-chewed tobacco was exchanged between males and females. The man would hold …read more