Featuring intimate moments, public displays of affection and a few drunken indiscretions, a new book celebrating 100 years of kissing proves a kiss is never just a kiss…
Freud described kissing as the “sexual use of the mucous membranes of the lips and mouth”, but it’s rarely that clinical in messy reality. Passionate, provocative or political, kisses can be deadly if you’re Michael Corleone inor artistic if you’re Andy Warhol, who flouted Hollywood’s three-second rule in 1963 by shooting Factory superstars snogging for three-and-a-half minutes.
Scientists tell us that along with serotonin and oxytocin, the dopamine released during a kiss hits the same area of the brain activated by heroin and cocaine. If plenty has changed over the decades in societal taboos, fashion and interior décor, our ardent addiction to that chemical cocktail remains the same. “You can’t not look at a photograph of people kissing,” insists Levine.
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