According to a 1992 best-selling book, men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but
when it comes to kissing it's more like men are from France and women are from a country
that maintains like really high standards for breath smell. Canada? Peru? India? Iceland?
Uzbekistan perhaps?
So earlier this year in October of 2013 a study came out of Oxford University which
found that humans don't necessarily kiss each other because we really like how the lip-touching
makes us fell on our insides, but rather we use kissing as a way to orally assess the
fitness of this potential mate. Whenever we're kissing, making-out, playing tongue hockey,
swapping spit, our bodies pay attention to all sorts of reproductive cues whether we
are conscious of it or not and on top of this researchers have identified ways in which
men and women not only zone in on different types of kissing cues but also exhibit different
kinds of kissing behavior. I have combed through a number of studies so that you don't have
to--you're welcome--to offer you these five ways in which men and women kiss differently.
Number one, when it comes to who we kiss. Guys guess what? You are less discriminating,
you will kiss just about anyone. But men do tend to be less picky when it comes to who
they'll smooch. Now on the flip side of that for number two when it comes to who you're
not going to kiss, women tend to hold a higher bar because we pay closer attention to taste
and smell and if we do not like what we are tasting and smelling in your kiss, then women
are more likely to call a bad kiss a deal-breaker. I was like sorry bro, your mouth tastes like
a dumpster outside of a old pet store. You are never kissing these lips again. For number
three with the how of kissing I said in the intro that men are from France because guess
what dudes? You like more tongue which is why you need to remember that you like more
tongue. Women don't necessarily always want all the tongue that you've got to give. Just
take it down a notch. Now for number four when we look at the why of kissing, men are
more likely to kiss as a way to gain sexual access and as a form of peace-keeping, in
other words if you notice that your boyfriend is like kissing up on you all the sudden being
real sweet and tender with the [kissing sounds] it might be because he had done wrong. Or
maybe he just really loves you and loves kissing you. What, it could happen? But women are
not without their ulterior kissing motives because research has found that from first
kiss to last kiss? Women tend to use kissing as a way to assess their relationship, we
really, truly internalize the words of the Shcoop, Schoop song if you want to know if
he loves you so, it's in his kiss. But really it's not in his kiss because he's probably
just wanting to uh, get you naked. For number five when it comes to kissing during sex,
women want it before, during and after, especially after whereas guys are a lot more willing
to say that they would just go ahead and have sex without ever kissing at all. Hello, do
not be confused by my feminine accessory for I am a man and though according to research
I might not be all that into kissing cause I really just want to have sex, it does not
mean that I am less of a living, breathing, caring human with a heart who from time to
time might write his feelings in poetic form. Obviously kissing behavior and preferences
are going to change from person to person but I want to know from you, do these sex
differences in kissing according to research ring true at all to you? Let me know in the
comments and if there is a his and hers kissing difference that you've noticed before that
I didn't mention, leave it in the comments as well. And hey don't forget to subscribe.
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