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Kissing in the News

The Science of Kissing has now been out a week and and this morning Craig Wilson has a piece in USA TODAY entitled, “Read her ‘Lips’: Kirshenbaum has kissing down to a science“: “A kiss is just a kiss …” Herman Hupfeld wrote in 1931 in his now-classic As Time Goes By. How wrong can […]

The Science of Kissing has now been out a week and and this morning Craig Wilson has a piece in USA TODAY entitled, "Read her 'Lips': Kirshenbaum has kissing down to a science":

"A kiss is just a kiss ..." Herman Hupfeld wrote in 1931 in his now-classic *As Time Goes By. *How wrong can one songwriter be?

Little did he know that a science writer was going to come along 80 years later and prove that a kiss is so much more than just a kiss.

*The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us *might just be the definitive work to date on the eons-old habit of locking lips.

Also today, Metro.us features a piece by Emily Anne Epstein, "Exploring when it’s not just a kiss":

Psychologists say that 66 percent of women will end a budding relationship if the first kiss goes awry, while only 59 percent of men place the same emphasis.

So what, exactly, is in a kiss?

This is the subject of Sheril Kirshenbaum’s new book, “The Science of Kissing.” In it, the native New Yorker explores everything that goes on between our lips — from the hormones to the history.

“Kissing is a powerful experience,” said Kirshenbaum. “It engages all the senses: Scent, taste and touch are all sending information to our bodies as to whether it’s a good match or not. It’s nature’s ultimate litmus test.”