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Kissing is so weird. You can make up a thousand just-so stories. You can imagine it meant totally different things through time and across cultures. For me it
by jvanderbot 11mo ago
Kissing is so weird. You can make up a thousand just-so stories. You can imagine it meant totally different things through time and across cultures.
For me it just seems like yet another culturally-defined signal of intimacy. Like showing ankles or chests or saying this or that. Seems to me trying to make everything some hard wired evolutionary thing is a dead end.
- omnicognate 11mo agoExcept that as the article says many animals kiss, not just humans.
- dachris 11mo agoReally funny on a farm when you see young calves "kissing" i.e. stick their noses/mouths together and lick each other's noses.
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- dyauspitr 11mo agoNo, kisses tingle, even completely emotionless ones. Lips have a lot of nerve endings.
- pfannkuchen 11mo agoDo hunter gatherers kiss near-universally? I think that would answer the question of whether it is nature or nurture. I’m allowing for it to be suppressed at times by culture, but I would expect the instinctive behavior to win the majority of the time unless the instinctive behavior is somehow harmful in an environment different from the organism’s classic environment.
- tylervigen 11mo agoThe researchers found a common ancestor of many different species that all conduct non-functional kissing. The surprising thing about the research is that it specifically implies kissing is not cultural!