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Why do we kiss? There is a book that studies the origin of the kiss to know more about the kiss I invite you to read below ...

Scientists can not decide whether the kiss is instinctive, cultural, DNA or all of these things at once

Birds do it, bees also. No, not that you're thinking! We are talking about the kiss, the simple and universal gesture that goes back to ancient times and still no one can explain. Anthropologists have

their theories, also neurologists, biologists, psychologists and endocrinologists. Einstein was interested, like Darwin. So, why no one can say how it began and what drives us to do?

Sheril Kirshenbaum, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, has collected a number of studies and observations of historians and sociologists, experts in the brain and in animals, and prepared a book remarkably short and extremely curious, The science of Kiss: What they tell us our lips (The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us).

What conclusion reached? A no. The kiss or kissing, it is customary 90 percent of the cultures in the world. It may be lip lip lip or another body part or even the floor, sometimes a kiss is a gentle lick or bite.

If we could decipher the origin of the kiss, says Kirshenbaum, we could solve a lot of mysteries and psychological changes that would transform the kiss in an incredibly valuable tool, rather than an interesting gesture.

Scientists can not decide whether the kiss is instinctive, cultural, DNA or all of these things at once.

suspect, according to Kirshenbaum, which is an ancient practice that may have started in the smell. The first greeting with a kiss, according to some anthropologists, may have been through the nose, a way of recognizing a person and observe their physical condition through their odors.

The red color may have helped to popularize the kiss.

Since ancient times red is synonymous with reward among our ancestors who looked ripe fruits among leaves and bushes. It is possible that during all those years in which man learned to walk upright, too has been programmed to appreciate the color and look strong everywhere, including on the lips of a woman and in other parts of their anatomy.

"Gender differences in the phenomenon of kiss are labeled" Kirshenbaum said in a tone of surprise.

"I do not like stereotypes, but I saw plenty of research to match. The men tend to describe the kiss rather as a means to an end, in the hope that something happens again, while he cares the woman is the kiss itself. "

The first human kisses were documented in the nineteenth 500 BC, in Vedic Sanskrit texts that served as the basis for religion Hindu. One describes the practice of sniffing the mouth. Another tells how a young gentleman of the house repeatedly licks a young woman, which could refer to a kiss or a caress, as Kirshenbaum.

Towards the end of the Vedic period, he said, Satapatha Brahmana speaks of lovers who stick their mouths and Hindu law tempranera questioning a man who drinks the moisture of the lips of a slave. From there, at least in India, the kiss happened to Kama Sutra, the century sex guide 3 which includes an entire chapter devoted exclusively to kiss.

India was not the only place where the kiss caught. In the world of Herodotus, according to their "stories" 5 th century BC, the Persians ranging from lip kisses lip between people of the same class until lip with a foot when it comes to two people of opposite classes.

A Babylonian story of creation recorded in slabs of stone in the 7th century BC, based on much older oral legends, including references to a kiss of greeting, and one at the feet or the floor in a gesture of supplication, said Kirshenbaum .

The Roman emperor Caligula made his subjects kiss his feet, a practice that continued throughout the Middle Ages. In 1861 Charles Dickens said that the custom of kissing the feet of Popes of the Catholic Church was an act of slavery and humiliation.

Mythology, literature, visual arts are full of kisses, as well as the two testaments of the Bible. Lip kiss lip, frowned upon by many who saw it as something dirty, going where were the Europeans and so was the kiss Western style popularized in most of the world. Kirshenbaum

estimated that over 6 billion people join lips for social or romantic daily. German has 30 words to refer to the kiss, including a "nachkussen", which refers to a kiss that compensates for that did not happen, said Kirshenbaum.

human lip, he found, is full of pressure-sensitive nerves and other forms of stimulation. They are perfect little motor and erogenous zones, since the slightest contact stimulates the brain much

Source: Reforma