Benefits of Kissing you don't know

What is kiss?

A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely.

A kiss can be use to express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, sexual activity, sexual arousal, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, peace, and good luck, among many others.

In some situations, a kiss is a ritual, formal or symbolic gesture indicating devotion, respect, or sacrament.

 

Types of kisses

French Kiss

One of the most passionate ways to kiss, a French kiss tops the list of kisses! An intimate and erotic move, it is surely to set your partner’s mood for some romance. Start by tilting in and locking your partner’s lips with yours. Remember to go with the flow, rushing through this divine moment can ruin the feel of it. Slowly extend your tongue and reach out for your partner’s tongue. Just feel the moment and you’d nail your ‘perfect kiss’.

Single Lip Kiss

Twee and romantic, single lip kisses are the best way to tell your partner ‘I love you’. Start by leaning closer and reaching out for one of their lips. Start sucking the lip gently in a romantic manner. DON’T BITE. Biting during a single lip kiss to show your wild side is a big NO! Just sandwich one of their lips between yours and keep sucking to send a strong romantic message.

 

Lizzy Kiss

Have you ever seen how a lizard sticks out its tongue? This is a similar type of kiss wherein both the partners stick out their tongues and kiss each other without the use of their lips. For some, it might be a little dirty but for those who share high level of intimacy, it can prove to be really amorous.

American Kiss

An American kiss, just like a French kiss, involves deep kissing but without the use of tongue. Hold your lady close by her waist and pin her closer to your body kissing her hard. Bend her a little giving support to her with your hand on her back and get lost in the romantic moment! It is sure to give both of you an erotic rush.

Ice Kiss

Try this ice-kiss that is sure to send chills down your and your partner’s spine! Just hold a cube of ice between your lips and start kissing your partner. Kiss them passionately till the ice melts completely in your mouth. Try this variation of kissing that would give your partner goose bumps.

Nibble Kiss

Nibble kisses are cute and at the same time very sensual. Just grab your partner’s lower lip and bite it gently. Do not be too harsh as it would cause pain and ruin your intimate moment. It makes your make-out session a lot more thrilling and would set the base for a lot extra.

Lip Trace Kiss

As playful and flirty as it can get, a lip trace kiss is the sweetest of all! Trace your partner’s lips with your tongue gently kissing them in between. It would definitely add spice to your ‘moment’ and leave your partner craving for a lot more.

 

Butterfly Kiss

All you need to do is sit close to your partner, and let your eye lashes touch theirs. And as you kiss, flutter your lashes together like butterfly wings. If you want to do a solo kiss, blink your eye lashes against their cheek and see them blushing. It’s cute, fun and something different to try out.

The Lip Gloss Kiss

It’s going to turn out quite playful. Put a generous amount of a flavoured lip gloss, and wildly kiss your partner until their lips are coated with it too. Now, make it more interesting by asking them to guess the flavour. You can also opt for tinted lip gloss but make sure your partner is comfortable with the act.

Spiderman Kiss

This kiss is bound to turn on your partner. To do it, the face of the partner needs to be upside down, so that your upper lip kisses their lower lip, and vice versa. This kissing style is unique, easy to execute and of course, sensual.

 

Earlobe Kiss

Who says a kiss has to be done just on lips. All you need to do is grab your partner’s ear between your lips and put your tongue to work. Use a gentle sucking motion to seduce them further and don’t forget to tug the earlobe downwards, gently. Since this particular region has nerve endings, your partner is going to love it.

Hickey

Hickey might not qualify as a kiss, but what’s wrong in going a bit bold and experimenting. Hickey (also called love bite) is a red mark that is left on the skin when you partner sucks the area hard enough. It is advisable to take your partner’s permission for doing it as some might find it pleasurable, and others painful. Also, the place where you do it matters as well as your partner might get embarrassed later if it is visible.

 

Air Kiss

This kissing style is more on formal side and generally done to greet your near and dear ones. All it requires is resting your cheek against the other person’s cheek and make a kissing sound, that’s it.

The Sugar Kiss

If your partner and you have a sweet tooth, then sugar kiss is one of the perfect options for you. Look for food items that you both love to binge on, like ice cream, marshmallow fluff, chocolate, etc, and kiss while they melt in your mouth.

Underwater Kiss

If your partner and you know how to swim and stay underwater for a few seconds, then this one is going to be your one of best sexual adventures. Here, partners hold their breath and kiss underwater. Or, either one of the partner holds his/her breath underwater and the other one gives them air.

Drink Kiss

This one is pretty interesting and might require a few sessions to master it. Here, one of the partner takes a sip of their favourite drink, and try to pour this drink into your partner’s mouth while kissing. Make sure you take a small sip initially, and be prepared if the drink spills. Guess, there’s another way of getting drunk with your partner.

Eskimo Kiss

This one is inspired from the way people in Eskimo culture do it. All you need to do is to rub your nose back and forth against your partner’s nose. You can add your own touch by kissing in between. It would be funny but sensual.

Vacuum Kiss

As the name suggests, the idea is to suck the air from your partner’s mouth. It is an open-mouthed kiss where both the partners kiss while sucking the air from each other’s mouth and thereby creating vacuum. It sounds a bit weird but is surely worth a try.

 

Candy Kiss

Here how you can relive your childhood memories in the most sensual way possible. Both of the partners pop in each other favourite candies, and exchange them while French kissing. Like, one partner might opt for mint flavour, and the other for orange. We wonder what your mouth would taste by the end of the act.

Chin Kiss

This one is quite simple yet erotic. Gently hold your partners chin with your middle finger, index finger and thumb, and tilt it towards the right direction. Enjoy the kissing while holding it.

Vampire Kiss

Channelise your inner vampire and show your partner your wild side. Just like vampires do it, plant a deep kiss on their neck while sucking the area, and biting it gently. You can go little raunchy and give a love bite as well. Since it might leave the red mark, make sure you ask your partner before doing it. Also, make sure it is painful in a pleasurable way. Hope the message is clear.

Jawline Kiss

This one is again another simple kissing style that can drive your partner crazy. To give a jawline kiss to your partner, start kissing them passionately on the bottom of their jaw, the area where their neck meets their face. If they like it, take it to next level by kissing their earlobes and forehead.

Wet Kiss

This style might not interest everyone, so be sure about your partner’s preferences before trying it out. A wet kiss is an open-mouthed kiss, and can be done with or without using your tongue. A little bit of wetness while kissing can be a turn on, but doing it excessively can be a messy affair. To spice up it even more, introduce a few more kissing styles while doing it. Spend a few seconds on close-mouth, single-lip kisses along with little bit of biting to keep things steamier.

 

Benefits/Importance of kissing your partner

1. It aid in mate selection

Various studies suggest that kissing may play a role in our process of assessing a potential partner. That's because kissing gets us close enough to a potential mate to unconsciously assess compatibility through our senses. Face-sniffing is a real thing: Our olfactory system can pick up pheromones when we get up close and personal with a lover. Some research suggests some pheromones may play a role in determining how attractive we find a potential partner.

Naturopathic physician Jolene Brighton, N.D., say’s kissing also allows for the exchange of saliva and therefore also microbes and DNA. As such, some studies suggest kissing can tell you about the genetic traits of your mate and influence whether or not you want to take it a step further into baby making.

 

2. It can increase arousal

Many people find kissing arousing, and it can be a great way to build up to sex. According to OB/GYN Jessica A. Shepherd, M.D., MBA, that's because kissing, produces many feel-good and stimulating effects on the body: "Several factors have been identified with kissing and love, including oxytocin, vasopressin, dopamine, serotonin, cortisol, and other stress hormones, nerve growth factor, and testosterone," say’s. Many of these chemical changes contribute to the activation of our brain's reward system, making kissing "important for the formation of pair-bonds, and especially for making love a rewarding experience."

 

3. It can make you feel high

As mentioned above, kissing releases a party of feel-good hormones that dance together to give you a natural high, including oxytocin (the so-called love hormone) and dopamine (a hormone associated with happiness and attraction).

Importantly, kissing almost always comes with the heady feelings of romantic intrigue and attraction. A study by behavioral anthropologist Helen Fisher, Ph.D., and a team of scientists suggests that the effect of the dopamine that can be released during a really great kiss is comparable to the activation that drugs like heroin and cocaine have on the brain.

 

4. It is linked to a higher likelihood of orgasm for women

Women are more likely to have an orgasm when sex involves "deep kissing," a 2018 study found. (More obviously, they were also more likely to reach orgasm with manual clitoral stimulation or oral sex involved.) Not everyone likes kissing during sex, but one 2007 study found just 14% of women would be open to sex without kissing compared to over half of men.

 

5. Some people can orgasm from kissing alone

There are some recorded cases of people reaching orgasm from kissing alone. Similar to the nipples, lips are densely packed with sensitive nerve endings, which is why they're considered an erogenous zone.

 

"Orgasm typically—but not always—results from rhythmic stimulation of body parts with high concentrations of sensory receptors," Shepherd explains. However, she notes that orgasming from just kissing is "not likely.” But mix it in simultaneously with other forms of sexual stimulation? Now we're talking.

 

6. Passionate kissing can really work your facial muscles

In an editorial for the American Journal of Medicine, American cardiologist Joseph S. Alpert, M.D., says a simple peck only takes two muscles in the face to create the exchange, but a passionate kiss can activate up to 24 facial muscles and 112 postural muscles. Talk about a workout for your face! Who needs face yoga or gua sha if you can just make out?

 

7. It can also burn some calories

Alpert also says passionate kissing can burn between 2 and 26 calories a minute. Roughly speaking, for reference, the average 150-pound person burns slightly less than one calorie per minute doing absolutely nothing. (If you want to get into the nitty-gritty details, here's more about how many calories kissing burns, from a light peck to a full-body make out.)

 

8. Kissing can help your skin

Kissing can give you that youth-like glow, and not just because you're blushing from a steamy makeout session. Kissing increases blood flow to the face (it's working quite a number of muscles, remember?), and that blood flow can stimulate the production of collagen and elastin, two skin-nourishing proteins collagen and elastin.

 

9. Kissing can increase longevity and livelihood

A German study from the 1980s by psychologist Arthur Szabo found kissing your partner in the morning before heading off to work is linked with some amazing life improvements: The participants who kissed their partners were said to have lived a median of five years longer than those who didn't, hold jobs paying between 20 and 35% more, lessened their chance of illness by up to 50%, and be involved in "significantly fewer" car accidents.

 

10. Kissing can potentially enhance your microbiome

If you think of kissing in its most basic sense, it's really swapping mouth germs with a chosen partner. One Dutch study found that a 10-second French kiss can be the source of 80 million bacteria transferring between two mouths. That might sound gross, but part of having a healthy microbiome is having a variety of bacterial species. We spoke with Jolene Brighton, M.D., about the claim and she said, "When we kiss there is an exchange of saliva, which inherently carries bacteria. There is a potential to strengthen our immune system via exposure."

 

11. Kissing can help reduce stress

Looking for a natural stress reliever? Try smooching.

"Kissing can help release oxytocin, which plays a crucial role in reducing stress in relationships," Shepherd says.

 

Research has shown kissing is linked to lower stress levels and cholesterol levels, another marker of stress linked to cortisol production. In the six-week trial, 52 healthy adults in marital and cohabiting romantic partnerships were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group was told to up kiss their partners more often, while the control group resumed status quo life. The result? Relative to the control group, the experimental group showed decreased cholesterol numbers and also generally perceived themselves to be less stressed out.

Another study found 15 minutes of kissing seems to lower cortisol levels themselves.

 

12. Kissing is good for your relationship

It was found couples who increased their kissing frequency reported higher relationship satisfaction than the control group. That makes sense: Kissing is a form of affection, so the more you do it, the closer and more intimate you'll feel as a couple.

 

13. Kissing can reduce allergy symptoms

Attention allergy sufferers: Some research suggests kissing can selectively decrease allergic reactions. While this isn't recommended as a fix for life-threatening allergic responses, the study did show possible alleviation of mild allergic reactions (like mild atopic eczema) as a result of kissing.