The Art of Kissing
The Art of Kissing
The Art of
Kissing
By Hugh Morris
first published in 1936
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Different Kinds of Kisses
Why People Kiss
Why Kissing Is Pleasant
Approved Methods of Kissing
Kisses Are But Preludes to Love
Preparing for the Kiss
How to Approach a Girl
The Techniques of Kissing
How to Kiss Girls with Different Sizes of Mouths
Enjoy the Thrills of Kissing
The French “Soul” Kiss
Put Variety into Your Kisses
The “Vacuum” Kiss
The “Spiritual” Kiss
The “Eyelash” Kiss
The “Pain” Kiss
The “Nip” Kiss
Variation Kisses Are the Spice of Love
Electric Kissing Parties
The Dancing Kiss
The Surprise Kiss
Kissing Under the Mistletoe
Kissing Games
DIFFERENT KINDS OF KISSES
The dictionary says that a kiss is “a salute made by touching with the lips pressed closely together and suddenly parting them.” From this it is quite obvious that, although a dictionary-may know something about words, it knows nothing about kissing.
If we are to get the real meaning of the word kiss, instead of going to the old fogies who compile dictionaries, we should go to the poets who still have the hot blood of youth coursing in their veins. For, instance, Coleridge called a kiss, “nectar breathing.” Shakespeare says that a kiss is a “seal of love.” Martial, that old Roman poet who hid ample opportunity to do research work on the subject, says that a kiss was “the fragrance of balsam extracted from aromatic trees; the rise odor yielded by the teeming saffron; the perfume of fruits mellowing in their winter buds; the flowery meadows in the summer; amber warmed by the hand of a girl; a bouquet of flowers that attracts the bees.”
Yes, a kiss is all of these and more.
Others have said that a kiss was: the balm of love; the first and last of joys; loves language; the seal of bliss; loves tribute; the melting sip; the nectar of Venus; the language of love.
Yes, a kiss is all of these . . . and more.
For a kiss can never be absolutely defined. Because each kiss is different from the one before and the one after. just as no two people are alike, so are no two kisses alike. For it is people who make kisses. Real, live people pulsating with life and love and extreme happiness.
Of course, there are different kinds of kisses. For instance, there is the kiss that the devout person implants on the ring of the Pope. There is the maternal kiss of a mother on her child. There is the friendly kiss of two people who are meeting or are separating. There is the kiss that a king exacts from his conquered subjects. But although all of these are called kisses, they are not the kisses that we are going to concern ourselves with in this book. Our kisses are going to be the only kind of kisses worth considering the kisses of love. The kiss, perhaps, that Robert-Bums had in mind when he wrote:
Honeyed seal of soft affections,
Tenderest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
Loves first snowdrop, virgin kiss.
The amazing thing about the kiss is that although mankind has been kissing ever since Adam first turned over on his side and saw Eve lying next to him, there has
been practically nothing written on the subject. Every year, hundreds of books are published telling you how to reduce, how to gain, how to get a job, how to cook, how to write and even how to live. But, on the art of kissing, very little has been written. One reason for this lack of proper instruction is accounted for by the Victorian sense of morals which has persisted through the ages.