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Kissing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a form of loss and partial compensation like imaginative vision which compensates for blindness, castration and loss.

Kissing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a perversion in that the parts of the body involved do not form part of the sexual apparatus but constitute the entrance to the digestive tract.

Kissing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always something of a disappointment: An intensely evocative pleasure which is also a disillusionment.

Kissing (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠among the more repressed and advanced races, a displacement upward of the act of possession, a sublimation of intercourse. It is, next to sexual union, the closest contact which the male and female may obtain.

Kissing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠evocative of something evanescent, out of reach, on the verge of disappearing a ghostly double which itself is the shadowy substitute for a primary source of love and sustenance.

Kissing (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the West, seen alongside a growth in importance with the restrictions placed by civilization on sexual activities. The more primitive the races, the more promiscuous they are and the less they kiss.

Kissing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠odd and irrational in that a man who will kiss a pretty girl's lips passionately may perhaps be disgusted at the idea of using her tooth-brush.

Kissing (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the contact of oral erotogenic zones and is perverse if it prevents normal sexual intercourse.