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is regarded (as reported in 1886) as preliminary to, or co-existant with, sexual intercourse.

It is said that in Japan kissing is regarded as preliminary to, or co-existant with, sexual intercourse.

is a biological litmus test through which the body tries to figure out how compatible one is with their partner.

In her view, a romantic kiss is nature's ultimate litmus test: 'With it, we try to figure out how compatible we are with our partner, especially for women who are more sensitive to taste and scent and who need to be biologically more selective when choosing a partner.'

is a chemical choir, involving a host of chemicals (oxytocin, dopamine, saratonin), all interacting together to make us feel a certain way.

Think of it as 'a chemical choir,' says science writer Sheril Kirshenbaum. In her new book, The Science of Kissing, the Austin, Texas writer weaves together classical history, evolutionary biology, psychology and scientific research to look at osculation (a fancy word for smooching). Kirshenbaum told me that the act of kissing involves a bunch of chemicals, all interacting together to make us feel a certain way. 'We try to link our behaviour to one particular hormone or neurotransmitter, but there is a much bigger chemical picture.'

is a form of loss and partial compensation like imaginative vision which compensates for blindness, castration and loss.

Phillips reviews Freud's remarks on kissing in the Three Essays on Sexuality, which suggest that the infant replaces the . . . Kissing is a form of loss and partial compensation like imaginative vision which compensates for blindness, castration and loss.

Christopher Ricks's sympathetically generous reading points to the strength of the final couplet and argues that kissing is a kind of rhyming and vice-versa.

is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

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.

Moreover, the kiss, one particular contact of this kind [the kind accompanied by pleasure 'which should persist until the 'nal sexual aim is attained'], between the mucous membrane of the lips of the two people concerned, is held in high sexual esteem among many nations (including the most highly civilized ones), in spite of the fact that the parts of the body involved do not form part of the sexual apparatus but constitute the entrance to the digestive tract.' Miller wonders, 'Am I wrong to detect a faint disgust in Freud's phrasing' Who, when kissing one's beloved, would want to remember that her lips are no more than the entrance to her stomach and intestines''

is a pleasure derived from close contact with a beloved person which is replaced in various parts of the world by the rubbing of noses, by the rubbing or patting of the arms, breasts, or stomachs, or by one man striking his own face with the hands or feet of another.

Among various human populations, for example, Darwin argues that kissing is not always a typical form of 'pleasure from close contact with a beloved person. . . it is replaced in various parts of the world, by the rubbing of noses, as with the New Zealanders and Laplanders, by the rubbing or patting of the arms, breasts, or stomachs, or by one man striking his own face with the hands or feet of another' (166). . . .

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