by Emmaline Keddy-hector
This afternoon I was sitting with a group of friends and they began discussing the different people they had “hooked-up” with recently-who they had kissed. One of them remarked that they ‘needed’ to find someone to make-out with that weekend. This got me thinking about the importance of the kiss. The climax of every movie romance is always when the couple kisses, and a person’s first kiss is seen as a huge step towards growing up.
Susan M. Hughes of Albright College, recently performed a study on kissing- why we do it, and how members of either gender react to it differently. She found that in general, women judge their partners as potential mates through their kiss. They found that taste and smell were more important to women in a kiss, and that “Women were much more likely to say they would refuse to have sex with a bad kisser.”(quoted in Stein, 2008, p. 3) The research also suggested that women were more likely to kiss just for the sake of kissing, while men were more likely to assume that kissing would lead to sex. Another factor in the kiss is the overall sensitivity of the lips and mouth. The lips are one of the most sensitive parts of the body, and the tongue receives and sends huge amounts of information to the brain.
According to an article in the Washington Post, kissing has also been shown to lower cortisol (the stress hormone) in members of both genders. Some of their findings suggested that kissing might release oxytocin at least in males, a hormone which promotes bonding. So while many consider kissing to be no more than a amusing diversion, it turns out that, at least subconsciously, kissing means much more to us than we think.
kwa hisani ya mtandao
This afternoon I was sitting with a group of friends and they began discussing the different people they had “hooked-up” with recently-who they had kissed. One of them remarked that they ‘needed’ to find someone to make-out with that weekend. This got me thinking about the importance of the kiss. The climax of every movie romance is always when the couple kisses, and a person’s first kiss is seen as a huge step towards growing up.
Susan M. Hughes of Albright College, recently performed a study on kissing- why we do it, and how members of either gender react to it differently. She found that in general, women judge their partners as potential mates through their kiss. They found that taste and smell were more important to women in a kiss, and that “Women were much more likely to say they would refuse to have sex with a bad kisser.”(quoted in Stein, 2008, p. 3) The research also suggested that women were more likely to kiss just for the sake of kissing, while men were more likely to assume that kissing would lead to sex. Another factor in the kiss is the overall sensitivity of the lips and mouth. The lips are one of the most sensitive parts of the body, and the tongue receives and sends huge amounts of information to the brain.
According to an article in the Washington Post, kissing has also been shown to lower cortisol (the stress hormone) in members of both genders. Some of their findings suggested that kissing might release oxytocin at least in males, a hormone which promotes bonding. So while many consider kissing to be no more than a amusing diversion, it turns out that, at least subconsciously, kissing means much more to us than we think.
kwa hisani ya mtandao
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