Records of the very first romantic kiss date back at least ... revealed their findings on the "ancient history of kissing" after drawing on clay tablets and other materials from early Mesopotamian ...

He wasn’t alone in his flowery thoughts about kissing. Romantic kisses have long been celebrated in songs, poems and stories, commemorated in art and film. No one knows for sure when humans ...

Researchers at the University of Nevada and Indiana University found fewer than half of the world’s cultures kiss in a romantic way. Although many societies consider kissing to be a romantic or ...

But current research has found that not only is romantic kissing not the norm in most cultures, some find it uncomfortable and even flat-out repulsive. For generations, passionate kisses ...

Some papers suggest romantic kissing began about 3,500 years ago. But a new review in the journal Science shows it was mentioned in much older clay tablets, from an area that's now modern-day Iraq.

Humans are born with instincts for crying and smiling, but not for kissing. Sometime in the past, our ancestors had the idea to smack their mouths together and call it romantic. And though we may ...

Snogging. Smooching. Canoodling. While such kissing is often depicted as a universal behavior in sexual encounters and romantic relationships around the world, a growing body of anthropological ...

Researchers William Jankowiak, Shelly Volsche and Justin Garcia discovered that more than half of 168 diverse cultures did not use the romantic-sexual kiss. “There is a marked absence of kissing ...