Kissing Trivia
The German language contains 30 words
that refer to the act of kissing.
There is even a word, Nachkuss, for all
the kisses that haven’t yet been named.
Dr. Joyce Brothers reports that
before marriage the average American
woman has kissed 79 men.
The longest kiss listed in the
Guinness Book of World Records
lasted an incredible 417 hours.
Husbands who kiss their wives
before leaving home in the morning
have been documented to live five
years longer than those who do not.
Blowing kisses originated in
Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C.
when pious pagans would throw
kisses to their gods.
It is widely believed that social
kissing was invented by medieval knights
as a way to determine whether their wives
had been hitting the bottle while
the knights were away on crusades.
In medieval Italy kisses weren’t
taken — or given — lightly. If a man
and a woman were seen embracing
in public they could be forced to marry.
During the Middle Ages,
the wedding kiss wasn’t pure romance.
Law stated that if the bride or the groom
died before the kiss, every wedding gift
had to be given back. If the couple
lived through it, the presents were
theirs to keep.