The Art of Kissing

The Art of

Kissing

By Hugh Morris

first published in 1936

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Different Kinds of Kisses

Why People Kiss

Why Kissing Is Pleasant

Approved Methods of Kissing

Kisses Are But Preludes to Love

Preparing for the Kiss

How to Approach a Girl

The Techniques of Kissing

How to Kiss Girls with Different Sizes of Mouths

Enjoy the Thrills of Kissing

The French "Soul" Kiss

Put Variety into Your Kisses

The "Vacuum" Kiss

The "Spiritual" Kiss

The "Eyelash" Kiss

The "Pain" Kiss

The "Nip" Kiss

Variation Kisses Are the Spice of Love

Electric Kissing Parties

The Dancing Kiss

The Surprise Kiss

Kissing Under the Mistletoe

Kissing Games

DIFFERENT KINDS OF KISSES

The dictionary says that a kiss is "a salute made by touching with the lips pressed closely together and suddenly parting them." From this it is quite obvious that, although a dictionary-may know something about words, it knows nothing about kissing.

If we are to get the real meaning of the word kiss, instead of going to the old fogies who compile dictionaries, we should go to the poets who still have the hot blood of youth coursing in their veins. For, instance, Coleridge called a kiss, "nectar breathing." Shakespeare says that a kiss is a "seal of love." Martial, that old Roman poet who hid ample opportunity to do research work on the subject, says that a kiss was "the fragrance of balsam extracted from aromatic trees; the rise odor yielded by the teeming saffron; the perfume of fruits mellowing in their winter buds; the flowery meadows in the summer; amber warmed by the hand of a girl; a bouquet of flowers that attracts the bees."

Yes, a kiss is all of these ... and more.

Others have said that a kiss was: the balm of love; the first and last of joys; love's language; the seal of bliss; love's tribute; the melting sip; the nectar of Venus; the language of love.

Yes, a kiss is all of these . . . and more.

For a kiss can never be absolutely defined. Because each kiss is different from the one before and the one after. just as no two people are alike, so are no two kisses alike. For it is people who make kisses. Real, live people pulsating with life and love and extreme happiness.

Of course, there are different kinds of kisses. For instance, there is the kiss that the devout person implants on the ring of the Pope. There is the maternal kiss of a mother on her child. There is the friendly kiss of two people who are meeting or are separating. There is the kiss that a king exacts from his conquered subjects. But although all of these are called kisses, they are not the kisses that we are going to concern ourselves with in this book. Our kisses are going to be the only kind of kisses worth considering the kisses of love. The kiss, perhaps, that Robert-Bums had in mind when he wrote:

Honeyed seal of soft affections,

Tenderest pledge of future bliss,

Dearest tie of young connections,

Love's first snowdrop, virgin kiss.

The amazing thing about the kiss is that although mankind has been kissing ever since Adam first turned over on his side and saw Eve lying next to him, there has

been practically nothing written on the subject. Every year, hundreds of books are published telling you how to reduce, how to gain, how to get a job, how to cook, how to write and even how to live. But, on the art of kissing, very little has been written. One reason for this lack of proper instruction is accounted for by the Victorian sense of morals which has persisted through the ages.