(CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19 th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his ...

A kiss feels electric, emotional, and comforting all at once. But what really happens inside your body when you kiss someone?

Humans have been kissing for a long time, according to an article published in the journal Science on Thursday. Researchers studied cuneiform texts from ancient Mesopotamia in an effort to unlock the ...

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 ...

Is there anything that feels quite as satisfying as that moment when those TV characters you love finally (finally!) kiss? One of the great joys of watching TV is getting invested in the love lives of ...

Lip kissing is an act that’s so natural and common in many present-day societies it is easily taken for granted. But it’s not actually clear whether people have always been kissing, or whether its ...

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