Babylonian clay model showing a nude couple on a couch engaged in sex and kissing from 1800 BC.Trustees of the British Museum/University of Copenhagen New research into Ancient Mesopotamia suggests ...

"First kiss beliefs" include idealized beliefs that your first kiss with a new partner should be a magical, transformative moment, sparking intense emotions within. Idealized romantic expectations ...

The first kiss in recorded history dates back nearly 5,000 years! The earliest recorded instance of kissing dates back to ancient Mesopotamia around 2500 BCE. Clay tablets from this era describe two ...

Snogging. Smooching. Canoodling. While such kissing is often depicted as a universal behavior in sexual encounters and romantic relationships around the world, a growing body of anthropological and ...

Researchers have delved into the ancient past to discover when romantic kissing likely originated and the pathogens, such as the herpes simplex virus, that have followed the practice from then until ...

In the Western world, Valentine’s Day expressions of affection are closely linked to mouth-to-mouth kisses. I remember feeling envious years ago when a colleague found a card in his pigeon-hole ...

(CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19 th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his ...

Lip kissing is an act that’s so natural and common in many present-day societies it is easily taken for granted. But it’s not actually clear whether people have always been kissing, or whether its ...

Intimate kissing (think lip-to-lip contact between two individuals in a sexual context) is typically the first partnered sexual behavior you experience. It's also the most common and the most frequent ...

Is there anything that feels quite as satisfying as that moment when those TV characters you love finally (finally!) kiss? One of the great joys of watching TV is getting invested in the love lives of ...

The modern world has gained sexual freedom and lost romance. What a lousy deal! And the kiss, once the shiniest coin in the realm of romance, has lost its luster. Whose fault is it? Well, it’s Leonard ...

Kiss Day, celebrated on February 13th, is the perfect time to express love and affection in one of the most intimate and cherished ways — through a kiss. As part of Valentine's Week, Kiss Day allows ...