A kiss may be on your list as one of the best things in life. But have you ever thought about how kissing evolved in the first place into such a meaningful activity for humans? After all, even though ...

Nobody knows when kissing emerged among humans. But the practice of plopping one's mouth on another human, whether in friendship or love, is not universal; which suggests culture, rather than instinct ...

Humans do it, monkeys do it, even polar bears do it. And now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of kissing. Their study suggests that the mouth-on-mouth kiss evolved more than 21 ...

A Babylonian clay model dated to 1800 B.C.E. shows a nude couple on a couch engaged in sex and kissing. The Trustees of the British Museum “My upper lip becomes moist, while my lower lip trembles! I ...

According to Science.org, the team worked on a basic question: if kissing offers no clear survival advantage, why is it so common? They began by mapping where the behaviour appears in animals. That ...

Kissing is not universal among human beings and, even today, there are some cultures that have no place for it. This suggests that it is not innate or intuitive, as it so often seems to us. One ...

Wednesday July 6 marks International Kissing Day, when you give your nearest and dearest some lip-based affection. International Kissing Day started back in the U.K. two decades ago, though different ...

In the Western world, Valentine’s Day expressions of affection are closely linked to mouth-to-mouth kisses. I remember feeling envious years ago when a colleague found a card in his pigeon-hole ...

Make kissing even more of a turn-on by levelling up and adding French kissing to your repertoire. While it might sound complicated, French kissing is just kissing with tongues. But this simple ...