Any touch can be erotic, depending on the context. That's why I'm skeptical about kissing being special. People have sex with their entire bodies, not just using genitals.
Holding hands may also be from when babies latch on and don't let go because of the necessity of holding on to the parent. My friend's 2 year old grabbed my hand recently and it reminded me of their iron grip.
Kissing is so weird. You can make up a thousand just-so stories. You can imagine it meant totally different things through time and across cultures.
For me it just seems like yet another culturally-defined signal of intimacy. Like showing ankles or chests or saying this or that. Seems to me trying to make everything some hard wired evolutionary thing is a dead end.
> humans and Neanderthals may even have smooched one another
More than just "smooching," if DNA has anything to say about it...
I assume kissing comes from a parent chewing up food and then transferring it to the baby.
This is innate “caring” behavior.
Similarly, mammary glands are for providing milk/nutrition.
These get associated with primal needs and therefore the amygdala, and so is associated with strong emotion.
Or, kissing is just a subset of skin to skin touching, using sensitive body parts. Not so different from holding hands.
Yes, there's also the "Eskimo kiss" in Inuit culture. Rubbing noses together, as a climate adjusted habit. From Wikipedia:
> Rather, it is a non-erotic but intimate greeting used by people who, when they meet outside, often have little except their nose and eyes exposed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_kiss
Any touch can be erotic, depending on the context. That's why I'm skeptical about kissing being special. People have sex with their entire bodies, not just using genitals.
Holding hands may also be from when babies latch on and don't let go because of the necessity of holding on to the parent. My friend's 2 year old grabbed my hand recently and it reminded me of their iron grip.
And choking fetish naturally stems from the desire to strangle an annoying baby.
/s
Chew your meat for you, pass it back and forth In a passionate kiss from my mouth to yours I like you
What a terrible day to have basic literacy skills and an imagination.
The song is 34 years old my friend.
It was a terrible day 34 years ago.
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You think your ancestors were monkeys.
I think my ancestors were something like monkeys.
We are not the same.
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> you think your ancestors are whatever researchers tell you they are
Actually it was revealed to me in a dream.
you misinterpret your dreams
Kissing is so weird. You can make up a thousand just-so stories. You can imagine it meant totally different things through time and across cultures.
For me it just seems like yet another culturally-defined signal of intimacy. Like showing ankles or chests or saying this or that. Seems to me trying to make everything some hard wired evolutionary thing is a dead end.
Except that as the article says many animals kiss, not just humans.
Really funny on a farm when you see young calves "kissing" i.e. stick their noses/mouths together and lick each other's noses.
OK, now date the last one :)
I just smooched my wife and reset the timer.
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I'd rather kiss my dog, whom I love, over a random person that I have little in common with. Is that somehow weird to you?
The internet is an amazing place.
By kiss, I mean empathy.
People having empathy for animals but not to humans who are different from them.
Humans have 46 chromosomes. Dogs have 78.