Kiss and tell. Danish historians say evidence of the first mouth-to-mouth smooch can be found on a clay tablet unearthed in the Middle East, the New York Times reported, upending academic theory about ...

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 ...

(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 ...

A married pair of researchers have “set the record straight” on the ancient history of smooching. A Babylonian clay tablet of a nude couple embracing on a bed, circa 1800 B.C. According to a new study ...

Apart from following customs with murky origins, what’s the reasoning behind giving someone a New Year’s kiss? This kiss is ...

A kiss is one of the most universal gestures in the world. It’s a wordless way to show affection that transcends language, culture, and even species boundaries, conveying a great deal of meaning ...

Most of us do it, be it romantic, familial, friendly or formal, but kissing among humans and where and how it originated is still hotly debated among historians and anthropologists. Now a new theory ...

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Is it in his kiss? Oh, yes. Osculation, the scientific term for kissing, in many ways says everything about your compatibility with your mate and the health of your relationship. We asked scientist ...