Why We Kiss

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Austin Peters 15-2-2011 The Affair of the Lips: Why we kiss? After reading a few pages of this essay I was a little puzzled by this essay’s statements and claims as to how a simple kiss can change the fate of our lives with a person. A kiss is a powerful gesture towards something greater and is something very sacred to most people, while to others a kiss is a gate into a world of something less sacred and more pleasurable. A kiss is something that humans do to show favor to someone else, and this doesn’t have to be with the opposite sex. Sometimes a kiss from priest is a sign of good gesture and can be looked upon as a great honor while a kiss from a mob boss is a sign of dishonor and disloyalty. So a kiss is much more then just simple act of passions or a gesture of love, but no one said it can’t be used to find your true love. When a man or a women, or a Homosexual couples, begin to grow close to another a great power of lust and desire can take over the man or the woman and suddenly a kiss is shared. That kiss can explain many things, so says the evolutionary psychologist Gordon G, Gallup, who claims “Kissing involves a very complicated exchange of information, tactile information and postural tapes of adjustments that may tap into underlying evolved and unconscious mechanisms that enable a person to make determinations to the degree to which the two people are genetically incompatible or compatible,” in short terms a kiss can tell us if your with the right person. But it can go much farther then a kiss sometimes an exchange of passion, aka sex, can tell you if you’re with the right person. There is a lot of science behind a kiss along with the psychological side, but we don’t know why a kiss can take us so far or how it can really tells us if were going to be with the right person. As humans we must find that our for ourselves but
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