The Art of Kissing.pdf

by HUGH MORRIS

(first published in 1936)

brought to you by PracticalRomance.com

The dictionary says that a kiss is "a salute made by touching with the lips

pressed closely together and suddenly parting them." From this it is quite

obvious that, although a dictionary-may know something about words, it

knows nothing about kissing.

If we are to get the real meaning of the word kiss, instead of going to the old

fogies who compile dictionaries, we should go to the poets who still have the

hot blood of youth coursing in their veins. For, instance, Coleridge called a

kiss, "nectar breathing." Shakespeare says that a kiss is -a "seal of love.

Martial, that old Roman poet who hid ample opportunity to do research work

on the subject, says that a kiss was "the fragrance of balsam extracted- from

aromatic trees; the rise odor yielded by the teeming saffron; the perfume of

fruits mellowing in their winter buds; the flowery meadows in the summer;

amber warmed by the hand of a girl; a bouquet of flowers that attracts the

bees."

Yes, a kiss is all of these ... and more.

Others have said that a kiss was: the balm of love; the first and last of joys;

love's language; the seal of bliss; love's tribute; the melting sip; the nectar of

Venus; the language of love.

Yes, a kiss is all of these . . . and more.

For a kiss can never be absolutely defined. Because each kiss is different from

the one before and the one after. just as no two people are alike, so are no

two kisses alike. For it is people who make kisses. Real, live people pulsating

with life and love and extreme happiness.

DIFFFERENT KINDS OF KISSES

Of course, there are different kinds of kisses. For instance, there is the kiss

that the devout person implants on the ring of the Pope. There is the maternal

kiss of a mother on her child. There is the friendly kiss of two people who are

meeting or are separating. There is the kiss that a king exacts from his

conquered subjects. But although all of these are called kisses, they are not

the kisses* that we are going to concern ourselves with in this book. Our

kisses are going to be the only kind of kisses worth considering . the kisses of

love. The kiss perhaps, that Robert-Bums had in mind when he wrote:

Honeyed seal of soft affections,

Tenderest pledge of future bliss,

Dearest tie of young connections,

Love's first snowdrop, virgin kiss.

The amazing thing about the kiss is that although mankind has been kissing

ever since Adam first turned over on his side and saw Eve lying next to him,

there has been practically nothing written on the subject. Every year, hundreds

of books are published telling you how to reduce, how to gain, how to get a

job, how to cook, how to write and even how to live. But, on the art of kissing,

very little has been written. - One reason for this lack of proper instruction is

accounted for by the Victorian. sense of morals which has persisted through

the ages. To the blue-nosed Puritans of the past anything that concerned love

was dirty, pornographical. John Bunyan's writings show what these, Puritans

thought of' the kiss. He wrote in big infamous "The Pilgrim's Progress," "the

common salutations of women I abhor. It is odious to me in whomsoever I see

it. When I have seen good men salute those women that they have visited, or

that have visited them, I have made my objections against it; and when they

have answered that it was but a piece of civility, I have told them that it was

not a comely sight. Some, indeed, have urged the holy kiss; but then, I have

asked them why they make their balks; why they- did salute the most

handsome and let the ill-favored ones go." Perhaps old Bunyan thought that

way because be was one of the "ill-favored" who went unkissed and were let

"go."

But, nowadays, people have taken a broader outlook on life. Our plays are

becoming more civilized and less stiff. Our arts are no more censored by laws.

Our books are being written about subjects that no self-respecting author

would ever have dared to put into a book. Birth-control, divorce and the

science of marriage are common subjects for books. Even the strange vices of

mankind are brought out into the open and discussed and not allowed to fester

in the dark chambers of censorship. Yes, books like Van de Velde's "Ideal

Marriage" and Stope's "Married Love" Ire openly sold in bookstores. But,

nowhere, do we find a book which instructs people in the art of kissing, an art

which is an absolute essential to a happy -life, as we shall discuss in the

oncoming pages of this book. Is it because we are not absolutely freed from

the shackles of prudishness? In certain parts of this country, men have been

arrested for kissing their wives on the street! Is this civilization?

So it is, that this book is being written. It is going to be a manual of the kiss.

In it we are going to discuss the most approved methods of kissing, the ad'

vantages. of certain kinds and, with the disadvantages of others, the mental

and physical reactions of kissers, historical episodes of kissing together with

examples from the literature of the world in which kisses were the subject. So,

gird up your loins, pucker up your lips and let's to the kissing arena!

WHY PEOPLE KISS

What happens when a man and a woman kiss?

That is to say, what happens, to the various parts of the body when two people

in love join their lips in bliss? Years ago, before our biologists knew of the

existence of the glands in our bodies, one writer quoted a scientist as saying

that "kissing is pleasant because the teeth, jawbones and lips are full of

nerves, and when the lips meet an electric current is generated."

What nonsense! What utter nonsense!

In the first place, two people kiss because they are satisfying, a hunger within

them, a hunger that is as natural as the hunger for-food, water and

knowledge. It is the hunger of sex that drives them to each other. After that,

hunger has been satiated, then comes the hunger for a home, for children and

for marital happiness. This hunger is instinctive, that is, we are born with it, all

of us, and we cannot learn it or acquire it in any way.

WHY KISSING IS PLEASANT

Once this hunger for the opposite sex evidences itself, there occurs in the

human body what is known as tumescence which, in simple language, is the

rhythmical contraction of the various muscles of the body together with the

functioning of certain glands, just which glands science has been unable to say

definitely. Gland specialists know, by performing certain operations, that the

adrenal, the pituitary, the gonad and certain other glands, control the sexual

behavior of human beings. It is these glands that re-act, that secrete what are

known as hormones into the blood which, in turn, carries them into the various

organs effected by a sexual reaction.

Therefore, it can be seen that it is the partial satisfying of the sex-hunger that

makes kissing pleasurable.' Electricity is used for turning motors and lighting

lamps and heating curling irons. But electricity goes not give complete

satisfaction to the kiss.

But enough of dry science!

We have ahead of us pleasurable reading of the bliss of the kiss. Now that we

have learned why it is that men and women kiss, let us go into the methods

used in. kissing so as to derive the most satisfaction from this most soul-

appeasing of pleasures.

APPROVIED METHODS OF KISSING

The only kiss that counts is the one exchanged by two people who are in love

with each other. That is the first essential of the satisfying kiss. For a kiss is

really the union of two soul-mates who have come together because they were

made for each other. The. reason for this is that the kiss is really the

introduction to love, true love. The kiss prepares the participants for the love

life of the future. It is the foundation, the starting point of sexual love. And it is

for that reason that the manner in which the kiss is performed is so vitally

important.

There are still young women extant who believe that babies are the result of

kisses Actually! this is a fact! And this condition exists because our parents, in

the main, are either ignorant of the methods of explaining sex to their children

or are too embarrassed to enlighten them. The result is that their children

obtain their sexual information from the streets and alleys or else remain

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