20 Fun Facts About Kissing
11. Lips are more sensitive than your fingers…and genitals. Yup, no kidding!
12. February 5 is International Kissing Day.
13. In our entire lifetime, we spend about 15 days kissing. That could mean one vacation too!
14. There’s also a fear of kissing known as Philematophobia.
15. A woman can get an orgasm by the act of kissing. Hmm..we’re thinking now. How many of you have experienced that?
16. Common chimpanzees kiss with open mouths. Only bonobos – the smartest of them all – use their tongues while kissing.
17. The first on-screen same sex kiss, shared by two women was in the 1922 movie ‘Manslaughter’.
18. There was a unique code passed in 1930 regarding people kissing in American movies called the Hays Code. It stated that people kissing could not be in a horizontal position, as in, lying down. One of them had to sit or stand. If there was any kissing on the beds, then one of the actors’ foot had to be on the floor and all married on-screen couples slept in twin beds. Too difficult to digest? That’s why the Code worked only till 1968.
19. The kiss between Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in the 1946 film ‘Notorious’ is termed to be one of the sexiest kisses in Hollywood. Due to the Hays code, kisses couldn’t prolong more than a few seconds. So director Alfred Hitchcock told the actors to repeatedly kiss briefly when Grant was answering a phone call. That seemed as if the kiss was going on and on, but it never extended more than a few seconds.
20. Do you rub your noses while kissing? Well then, you’re doing the Eskimo kiss too. An Eskimo kiss involves the rubbing of noses.
