Kissing in Public
What do you think of kissing in public – all those endless couples that enjoy kissing in front of others in many different places like cafes, restaurants, discos, malls, railway stations and bus stops, universities and colleges, when walking along the streets or when sitting in the park together etc.?
Do you think that kissing in front of others is right? Or maybe it's a bit abnormal to express the most intimate emotions of the intimate ritual in front of others? Actually, there are many different opinions on the subject. These opinions depend on people and their own private beliefs as well as the country people are from. Why? Because, for instance, in such countries as Japan and China people tend not to kiss in public just because it's been considered indecent from ancient times till now even. There you won't see even parents kissing their kids in the streets like they do it all over European and American countries.
There are separate individuals even in such liberal regarding kissing in the streets countries as Europe and USA who consider that people shouldn't show their kissing out in public for it's something that's truly intimate and special, something that should happen within the sacred boundaries of a couple only – behind the closed door of their dwellings.
Opinions differ – some kiss in public, others don't – depends on people's preferences, upbringing, faith and beliefs. There are people who do not kiss in public just because they are embarrassed to do it for certain individual reasons just because of certain complexes of their own – we will discuss this issue in one of our further articles – read on and you'll learn all about the fear of kissing!
There are many possible reasons why we kiss starting from pleasant emotions and sensations it brings finishing with desire to practise the art of kissing which is represented by a myriad of nuances and special points requiring much time spent on their investigation and practice.
Plato used to call kissing the ‘exchange of love between the two souls’. Nowadays medical specialists call a kiss some sort of spasm which involves around twenty-nine muscles.
They call it French kissing because most people in most countries associate the French with the nation of virtuosos when it’s about the art of love and sensuality. In French this type of kissing is called ‘the kiss of souls’.