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Victorian. sense of morals which has persisted through the
ages. To the blue-nosed Puritans of the past anything that concerned love was
dirty, pornographical. John Bunyan's writings show what these, Puritans thought
of' the kiss. He wrote in big infamous "The Pilgrim's Progress," "the common
salutations of women I abhor. It is odious to me in whomsoever I see it. When I
have seen good men salute those women that they have visted, or that have
visited them, I have made my objections against it; and when they have answered
that it was but a piece of civility, I have told them that it was not a comely
sight. Some, indeed, have urged the holy kiss; but then, I have asked them why
they make their balks; why they- did salute the most handsome and let the
ill-favored ones go." Perhaps old Bunyan thought that way because be was one of
the "ill-favored" who went unkissed and were let "go."
But, nowadays, people have taken a broader outlook on life.
Our plays are becoming more civilized and less stiff. Our arts are no more
censored by laws. Our books are being written about subjects that no
self-respecting author would ever have dared to put into a book. Birth-control,
divorce and the science of marriage are common subjects for books. Even the
strange vices of mankind are brought out into the open and discussed and not
allowed to fester in the dark chambers of censorship. Yes, books like Van de
Velde's "Ideal Marriage" and Stope's "Married Love" Ire openly sold in
bookstores. But, nowhere, do we find a book which instructs people in the art of
kissing, an art which is an absolute essential to a happy -life, as we shall
discuss in the oncoming pages of this book. Is it because we are not absolutely
freed from the shackles of prudishness? In certain parts of this country, men
have been arrested for kissing their wives on the street! Is this civilization?
So it is, that this book is being written. It is going to
be a manual of the kiss. In it we are going to discuss the most approved methods
of kissing, the ad' vantages. of certain kinds and, with the disadvantages of
others, the mental and physical reactions of kissers, historical episodes of
kissing together with examples from the literature of the world in which kisses
were the subject. So, gird up your loins, pucker up your lips and let's to the
kissing arena!
WHY PEOPLE KISS
What happens when a man and a woman kiss?
That is to say, what happens, to the various parts of the
body when two people in love join their lips in bliss? Years ago, before our
biologists knew of the existence of the glands in our bodies, one writer quoted
a scientist as saying that "kissing is pleasant because the teeth, jawbones and
lips are full of nerves, and when the lips meet an electric current is
generated."
What nonsense! what utter nonsense!
In the first place, two people kiss because they are
satisfying, a hunger within them, a hunger that is as natural as the hunger
for-food, water and knowledge. It is the hunger of sex that drives them to each
other. After that, hunger has been satiated, then comes the hunger for a home,
for children and for marital happiness. This hunger is instinctive, that is, we
are born with it, all of us, and we cannot learn it or acquire it in any way.
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