Comments on: Ask Mike: The First Kiss

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:32:39 +0000

I’ve never thought of kissing that way… Before i thought it was just something people just did for fun (well, not really for fun, but something like that) and stuff, not for preventing germs or whatever you said. I think kissing is something people learn, because when I was a toddler or a baby, I had no clue about kissing…

By: puurrr-fection required

puurrr-fection required — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:08:39 +0000

Personally I like to think that kissing is somehow instinctive as well as what we learn. I learned the word ‘kiss’ a long time after experiencing many. Since then I’ve been _l_e_a_r_n_i_n_g_ ‘puurrrrr-fection’. I don’t believe a baby learns to kiss since they don’t know what it means. They instinctively mimmick what they see. (monkey see, monkey do syndrome). They are taught the action, yet not the meaning of ‘kiss’ until they learn to comprehend. I think that’s when it becomes instinctive: once they comprehend the concept. A newborn, whether human or animal, (sometimes depicted only by who wears the most body hair) can automatically relate to hunger. Does that mean they learn or instinctively know how to satisfy their hunger. It’s like the ‘chicken or the egg’ syndrome. My opinion is neither, or sometimes both. They are intoduced to ‘satisfaction’. The need is fullfilled. So, is kissing satisfaction? For some, yes…for others, no…This is why I believe a learned or an instinctive behavior is just that…a behavior. So, my opinion is THE CHICKEN….I’ve learned that I instinctively want more. Or, I’ve instinctively learned that a lucious juicy breast satisfies me only second to a soft, warm and long juicy kiss. I don’t think there is a perfect answer, only a perfect desire…LOVE.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:53:14 +0000

Cannibalism.

Humans are made of proteins. What do humans need most in their diets to survive healthy? Protein. Human flesh is about the healthiest and most efficient protein we could get.

If you ever uttered “you are just so cute I wanna eat you up!” you might begin to understand that cannibalism is something embedded deep in our brains. Evidence shows that early man may have started off as cannibals as well.

The process of starvation will eventually isolate the part of the brain that allows us to think of eating other humans and be perfectly okay with it.

In some cultures, eating your enemy was a way of showing your power.
Still in other cultures, eating their dead was a sign of respect and homage.
(granted, this brought about certain prion (protein) diseases, such as mad cow/cjd, kuru)

Yes, nowadays what I’m saying maybe shocking but lets face it, we humans are pretty strange. There are a lot worse concepts and act we have been guilty of.

Putting your mouth on something is somewhat arrogant in my opinion. Kinda like the concept of “I licked it, now no one else can touch it”
To me it makes perfect sense that is was learned and taught by the western world. We tend to want to conquer things and so we put our mouths on it and suddenly we think it ours or it owes us something in return.

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:06:55 +0000

i guess that kissing is an istinct, u can see it easily how lips can attract someone. but im sure that its proven by the media…

By: Adelaide

Adelaide — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:32:14 +0000

Well I’ve always thought of a kiss as a natural instinct.
Considering that it releases dopamine endorphines in your brain.
Though, I guess almost everything is, like they say, mind over matter.

By: kakakakaydee

kakakakaydee — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:26:23 +0000

Oh,, wow… i never really thought about it. I just figured we do it cause we like to…. it’s fun lol haha

it’s a show of affection, although in current times we have downgraded kissing, snogging, and the like. we do it just to have the experiance.

this is just a teenagers veiw, but still

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:55:49 +0000

Kissing is a way to show affection (in most cases). I don’t believe that the only reason people would kiss is to help the body become more immune.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:36:05 +0000

I kind of agree with the school of thought on germ protection. It does have a nice effect of romanticism if you’re in love, and perhaps there is even a bit of culture involved in it too. I am generally one who gets sick less often and/or less severely than many people I know. But I don’t have any way of knowing/proving that it is affected in such a way, of course.

But it’s also rather subjective, as there really isn’t any stone cold evidence to suggest it one way or another.

By: MaxRDJ

MaxRDJ — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:18:35 +0000

I think that kissing comes from seeing other people kiss when you are quite young. Additionally I think this has something to do with natural selection. As the article mentions it can help with immunisation, so it is likely that the humans who kisses were more likely to survive. Therefore having more children who either learnt or knew how to kiss.

By: Alysse

Alysse — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:40:02 +0000

That’s very intriguing. I’ve heard some things on this subject before, mostly in comparing animal behavior to human.
Humans and certain primates (chimpanzees and gorillas) are the only animals to kiss, but for the primates scientists think it is soley to test for health which would effect the taste of a mouth for a reproductive partner, and not for pleasure.