Kissing

What’s in a Kiss?

  • 34 facial muscles are used
  • A more in-depth kiss may require 112 body muscles for posture
  • Kissing is also known as Philematology
  • Burns 26 calories
  • Releases the same neurotransmitters that are released during intense exercise
  • 90% of people kiss
  • Encourages feelings of attachment and affection
  • Predominantly controlled by the orbicularis oris
  • Relieves stress
  • On average a person will spend 20,160 minutes ( 2 entire weeks) of their life kissing
  • Kissing produces a substance that is 200 times more powerful than the narcotic morphine
  • Sends a message to the brain that says “I’m kissing” - That in turn produces Oxytocin, Dopamine, Serotonin, and Adrenaline
     

Anyone who has ever been kissed knows that the sensations involved aren't confined to the mouth. Your facial nerve carries impulses between your brain,  muscles, skin, and tongue. While you kiss, it carries messages from your lips, tongue and face to your brain to tell it what's going on. Your brain responds by ordering your body to produce:                                   

Helps develop feelings of attachment, devotion and affection for one another
Plays a role in the brain's processing of emotions, pleasure and pain  
Affects a person's mood and feelings
Increases heart rate and plays a role in your body's fight-or-flight response
 
When you kiss, these hormones and neurotransmitters rush through your body.  Along with natural endorphins, they produce the euphoria most people feel during a good kiss.

 A Kiss is Just A Kiss, Right?

WRONG!  Kissing is very powerful. When 2 people kiss they both have feel good chemicals running wild. Kissing will only want to make you do more than kiss.  Plus, most people know that mouths are germy places. Kissing is directly tied to a few illnesses:

  • Mononucleosis is often called "the kissing disease" because it is carried in saliva and can be spread through kissing.
  • The herpes simplex 1 virus causes cold   sores and is easily transmitted through kissing. 
  • Although kissing doesn't necessarily cause meningitis, researchers have tracked a correlation between teenagers' number of kissing partners and likelihood of developing the disease.

 

  • Some researchers theorize that bacteria that cause gastric ulcers may spread through kissing.

 


[ References ]
Science World (Feb.2003)
www.goliath.ecnext.com/comS2/summary_0199-     2611079_ITM           
www.health.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=255433               
www.english.pravada.ru/society/stories/09-07-2007/94705