Kiss on a Cheek
A person learns what the kiss is when a child already. Parents kiss their infants all over their cute bodies. We experience our first kisses on the cheek at our very early age – when we are kissed by our parents or fellow-kids during the games or when expressing affection towards each other.
If given to kids by adults, a kiss on the cheek is a great way to express parental love and care; it's a sweet and cute and looks especially lovely in family pictures which we cherish through years and all possible distances.
If given by adults to each other, a kiss on the cheek may signify many different things. First, it can 'seal' the acquaintance of two people, the meeting of relatives who haven't seen each other for a long time, or the meeting of (female) friends that haven't seen each other since yesterday – depends on people's habits, preferences and beliefs here. In some countries even men kiss when they meet which is considered perfectly normal. Respectively, people can kiss on the cheek when they say good-bye to each other.
Secondly, people can kiss each other on the cheek on less official and traditional occasions – when they just want to express affection and/or appreciation towards each other but are not too close to each other (yet) to do it in a bit more passionate way.
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’.