Why do people kiss?
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Why do humans kiss
Tony Barrell/Text Zhao Wanpeng/Translation
Kissing makes the heart beat faster and releases hormones, saliva and microorganisms. To scientists, its origins are as mysterious as flying saucers, ghosts and yetis in the Himalayas.
In the center of the solemn conference hall of the Louistown Auditorium, Francesca (
Francesca (Francesca) and Paolo (Paolo) hugged each other and were having a long-lasting kiss
Kiss. People stared intently at the lovers in love, walking slowly around them, and kept saying to themselves, "It's wonderful!" "It's so charming!" They said Holding each other tightly, one cannot even tell whether Francesca and her lover used tongues - whether they were exchanging saliva. A French kiss, a fusion of souls. To make matters worse, Paul is Francesco's brother-in-law, and they are both naked.
Francesca and Paolo are the adulterous lovers in Dante's Divine Comedy, ever since their bloated bodies were conceived out of a block of marble in Rodin's Paris studio. , they have been kissing for nearly a hundred years. A pair of blond teenage lovers wearing white T-shirts and light brown shorts were walking leisurely around the statue. They held hands and stopped to kiss each other secretly from time to time.
Everything was so natural that they had no idea that they were imitating the movements of the statue beside them.
Some people around here are doing the same. Nowadays, the chivalry may have gone with the wind, the tea dance every afternoon has turned into an all-night carnival, and the fragrant love letters have given way to the disgusting ones
e-mail. However, despite the vicissitudes of life, kiss has survived in the indulgent society and continues to flourish
. It seems to have made promiscuity the only currency and platonic love worthless. The reason is that our expressions of love are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with scenes of on-screen couples acting out in movies and oral sexual intercourse promoted in numerous pop songs becoming more and more appreciated.
In Eastern Tantric philosophy, kiss has a high importance. It awakens the body's six mysterious centers. Now, the "social kiss" has infiltrated once staid international interactions. In this day and age of teen moms, bonding parties, and Internet porn pages, a kiss can still shock people and make news if it lasts long enough. , the identity of both parties kissing is "wrong" enough. In May, 49-year-old Christine Han shocked many tabloid readers when she was photographed lip-locking with a 19-year-old boy. A few years ago, Anna Friel and Kerri Taylor were shown on Channel 4 embracing each other. The kiss scene was deleted from the featured version the next day.
The move was so strongly condemned by lesbian groups that they staged a kissing demonstration outside Channel 4's headquarters.
Meanwhile, kissing contests and kiss-a-thons continue to set new records. At a rally in New York last year, Mark and Roberta Griswold kissed for 29 hours until they had to go to the bathroom. . They beat eight other couples and won a week-long vacation to Paris.
This year, the record was broken by another couple in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel. They persisted for more than 30 hours, and finally both went to the hospital for facial treatment. pain.
Significant lip action involves more than 30 facial muscles. "The lip movements are incredibly precise compared to movements of the upper and lower limbs," says Gus McGroot, head of the department of orthopedic surgery at University College London. The professor said so. He studies the correction of oral defects through kissing. "That's a very, very good exercise. When you kiss, many muscles in the lips contract. The levator muscles, which run vertically in the lips, lift the lips forward and outward
At the same time, it is the orbicularis muscle that closes the lips, which is distributed in a ring. These muscles act in coordination, so that the lips can be protruded for kissing. There is a horizontally distributed muscle on one side of the cheek, called the buccinator muscle. Its distribution direction is from the mouth to the ear. When it is tightened, it can control the lips. "Although the lip muscles are the basic condition for kissing, people enjoy it because there are a large number of nerve endings. The area of ??the brain that controls the mouth
is actually larger than the area that controls the genitals. "The lips, mouth, and tongue are some of the most sensitive parts of the human body," said Margaret H. Harter. She is
a researcher at the Kinsey Institute for Sexology in Indiana. "Among the 12 nerves that affect brain function, 5 are related to kissing. Because the brain is equally closely connected with lips, tongue, cheeks and nose, so, People can feel temperature, smell, taste and movement during a kiss. "One bundle of nerves controls muscle contraction, and another bundle of nerves controls sensation," McGrew said.
Special explanation. "These nerves come together in the brain. When you kiss, you need your brain to tell you where your lips are, so you never kiss on the tip of the other person's nose. The whole process is there. >It happens in the brain and takes only a few microseconds; it is much smarter than any computer.”
The above are clinical descriptions. So, what deep impact will a passionate kiss have? "It is magma that rushes through the veins, not blood. Breathing is very short....
In the beautiful exchange of love, you will moan... Your brain is empty because of the blood
The fluid will flow violently through all the blood vessels in the body, and there will be very little blood in the head. At this time, you will not be able to think at all." This passage is from a book published in 1936. A Guide to Love by Hugh Morris. These words are not entirely false. If the kissing parties are adult partners who are in love with each other,
and have good sexual and psychological qualities, then the effect of the kiss is tantamount to a rush of amphetamines.
Dopamine begins to flow rapidly around the brain, testosterone secretion increases in both sexes, and the adrenal glands
secrete the hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine. These hormones increase blood pressure and heartbeat. Also
surges from 60-80 times per minute to more than 100 times per minute. The increase in blood flow is shown in the capillaries under the skin of the lips, and people's lips become red and swollen. , very sexy (that's why red lipstick is so popular). A ring full of lust appeared on his mouth.
During an unusually passionate kiss, the pituitary gland at the base of the brain secretes posterior lobe hormone. Scientists believe that this magic "family" hormone can inspire us to form relationships. Relationship, it
can also help with childbirth and stimulate women to secrete milk.
A recent study on posterior lobe hormones at the University of California, San Francisco, provides evidence for common knowledge: People
can produce or enhance sexual intercourse when kissing. The other person’s desire to establish a one-to-one relationship.
But, most importantly, why do we kiss? If kissing could be used as a weapon of war, maybe scientists would have figured it out long ago, and they wouldn't have to learn how to split atoms, take off and land vertically. One possible explanation is that kissing is just a ruse to get close to someone and smell them. The evidence is that we still have a primitive need: to collect ectoporone. sample. Related to this is the following theory: We just really want to taste the sebum secreted by the glands around each other's lips in order to test their sexual chemicals. A less reasonable theory is that kissing originated from the ancient practice of licking and sucking each other to obtain cooling salt on hot days.
Desmond Morris offers an alternative explanation in his book Intimate Behavior
He made the connection between kissing and feeding. "In early human society, people had not invented commercial baby food. The way mothers weaned was to chew food in their mouths and then use mouth-to-mouth way into the baby’s mouth,” he wrote.
“If young lovers feel the comfort of ancient mothers’ oral feeding
as they explore each other’s mouths with their tongues, they will increase their trust and bond. ”
But other theorists are more inclined to the following view: kissing is a progression of the act of sucking the mother’s breast
. "Although people can't remember the scene when they greedily sucked their mother's breasts,
but there are still many hints of this feeling deep in the soul," Nick Fisher
said Nick Fisher, author of "The Complete Book of Kissing." "Without this sucking
kissing, you become hungry and feel unloved around you. Therefore, as adults, people continue to use their lips to express affection. It can evoke pleasant memories in people's hearts."
The Indian Kama Sutra, Latin words and South American pottery all prove that kissing is ancient.
Activity. Gorillas also kiss frequently, and African bonobos even kiss with their tongues,
This proves that kissing existed before humans appeared. On the other hand, their kissing behavior may have evolved independently after diverging from the human lineage.
Human babies seem to be born with the ability to kiss. They seem to understand very well that their mouths are the interface between the inner and outer worlds, and they use their lips to test everything.
As we grow older, we learn a lot of oral skills, but at the same time we also acquire all the disappointing taboos and polite manners of adults. When children kiss others, they usually do it naturally and instinctively, and never care about the consequences. Simply getting older doesn't necessarily give one the keys to the kingdom of kissing. In some parts of the world, such activities are strictly prohibited between adults in public settings, such as Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. "The majority of hygienists are against kissing and against such contact between mucous membranes," wrote the French physician Joseph Purcell. Many scientists now know this is nonsense. Epidemiologist Julius Weinberg said, "From an evolutionary point of view, if kissing was harmful to humans, the kissing race would have become extinct long ago. Most
bacteria in our mouths and throats are beneficial or at least harmless.
An important reason for our survival is probably because we exchange bacteria with each other. ”
Mormons have a pessimistic view of kissing before marriage. Mormon prophet Spencer King
Ball preached, “A kiss is no longer pure, like a prostitute . It has degenerated into a means of cultivating and
expressing lust instead of expressing friendship, respect and adoration. What meaning does kissing have when it loses its sacred connotation and is thrown around like cookies? ” Kimball described acceptable kissing practices between young lovers: “I don’t mind if the kissing starts after several dates. But not a Hollywood kiss, not a passionate kiss,
but a friendly kiss, and there won't be any trouble. ”
But what really causes trouble is social kissing, such as a casual kiss when meeting a friend of a friend
Ordinary kissing or an acting kiss that is fashionable. Busy businessmen Traveling around the world
never knowing if they had kissed too many cheeks too many times
Men swarmed to kiss the charming girls they had just met without knowing they were there. About to kiss the whole house
“The kisses thrown around in corporate interactions have sown potential dangers across America, as one ill-judged action can bring down the entire house. Companies are suffering," said Tomina Edmark, a Texas businesswoman and author who believes that two factors are making more and more Companies use kissing to close business deals: First, the boundaries between social and business norms are blurring, and second, the number of women in the business world is increasing, according to a survey. It shows that 60% of British people do not like to kiss people they have just met, but prefer to shake their hands; only 13% want to communicate with them orally.
Writer John Morgan commented, "Kissing someone for the first time is both rude and presumptuous:
In this case, a handshake or a nod is enough. The only place for kissing in social interactions is the cheek. For older people, one kiss is more common; for younger people, two kisses are common, but three kisses is a bit much at any age. "Even kissing between family members has minefields. Traditionally, little boys avoid the lips of uncles and uncles, while adult brothers generally adopt a tough-guy approach. Hug, hate mouth-to-mouth contact.
Standing under the statue of the goddess of sex at London's Piccadilly Circus, Joe Guest kissed passers-by like
biscuits. This day is July 6, 1999, National Kissing Day, at 9 o'clock in the morning. This model who once showed herself naked is promoting a women's underwear chain today. > Wearing just two pieces of black lingerie, decorated with dazzling pink lip foils, a group of tabloid reporters loudly ordered her to take photos in various poses. Kissed a passerby who was about to go to work, "but without using his tongue." The sun was shining on Tuesday, and the theater was packed with people, but not many people seemed to buy it. Her account. Maybe it was the half-smoked Marlboro cigarette in her hand that acted as a deterrent.
Joe stretched out his lower lip and blew into his face. This is international. A universal sign of exhaustion "I've been up since four in the morning," she sighs, explaining that she's working on a kissing festival for a London radio station. Publicity. She once "kissed the neck" with Chris Evans. According to a survey of 17,000 wives and girlfriends, necks are what most British women like. Where it touched with her mouth, then her lips, and then her breasts. I asked Joe if she still remembered her romantic first kiss.
"Yes," she said, "I was in middle school at the time. The boy's name was Duncan. We went on a four-month holiday together. We went behind a tree and tried
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They kissed and their teeth touched together.”
Like Joe, it seems that many people remember their first kiss. In fact, in memory, many details about that magical moment - the place, feelings, conversations - remain fresh for a long time, while many major life-changing events gradually fade away. Vague. Americans did relevant research
in early 1999. Butler University researchers surveyed nearly 300 people and found that most people had much clearer memories of their first kiss than other times.
A man in a suit approaches the statue of the goddess of sex. Finally a guest has arrived! But what he came to ask for was not a kiss, but an autograph. He was kind enough to help Jon with his cigars while he wrote. But Joe won't let him go away so easily. "It's National Kissing Day," she announced,
her orbicularis muscle finally kicking in. Perhaps the reason for the lack of verbal behavior on this day is that National Kissing Day is not as old in British culture as Mother's Day or Bonfire Night.
But in the beginning, Kissing Day was not a means to sell sexy lingerie. The holiday began in 1996 to promote a dental care program that linked dental quality to sexual success, and encouraged dentists to promote the health benefits of kissing. Some even say that kissing is "the cleansing process of the Creator. It stimulates the flow of saliva and reduces the level of plaque to normal."
National Kissing Day is not what people think of these days. The only attempt to profit from kissing. Dallas-based blonde Tomina Admark, who has a penchant for smoking, recently introduced her "kissing machine" to the world. The machine consists of two current conductors ("love handles") connected to a mechanism that uses a 9-volt battery. The machine is connected to the speaker
of the radio. When two lovers kiss, the circuit is connected and they receive a weak electric current passing through their bodies to the rhythm of the music.
The Great Hall in Lewistown. People walked quietly past a glass box. Inside the box, two young women were sucking each other's lips. It is a sculpture by Rodin in the 19th century and is slightly smaller in size. A bald man with glasses and a gray beard leaned down to observe the lesbian couple carefully, and then talked calmly to his wife. I opened my ears,
very eager to hear his opinion. However, I found that, for some unknown reason, he was talking
about the great achievements of Hannibal, the Carthaginian commander in the 2nd century BC, who crossed the Alps and defeated the Italian army. This is the British.