we all know that moment when your pulse
begins to quicken and you lean in and
mash your face into another person’s
face we’re 80 million bacteria are doing
a big old dance in your digestive juices
she’s thinking oh he should have ordered
no onions he’s thinking is that a
lipstick stain or a beginning of a cold
sore and yet there’s nothing like good
kiss people have written songs about it
stories made movies but why exactly do
we do it I’m Erica Bergman and we’re
wired that way your parents might be the
first people you ever saw kiss it’s
learned behavior so is how you do it but
when it comes to romantic kissing only
about 46% of contemporary cultures do it
for example the Inuit of Perry Islands
nuzzle noses instead which may be where
the term Eskimo kiss comes from but in
the cultures where we do kiss it’s super
important to the success of a
relationship sixty-six percent of women
and 59 percent of men report ending a
new relationship based on a bad first
kiss because really is there any coming
back from an icky lip-lock but when was
the first first kiss and aren’t you
dying to know how it was the first
record of a romantic kiss was for more
than 3,500 years ago in a Sanskrit text
where it was likened to inhaling each
other’s souls
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romantic isn’t it kissing is mentioned
in the Bible the Kama Sutra Cleopatra is
rumored to have been great at it so it’s
been around for a long time but what is
it about the physical act of kissing
that makes us want to do it kissing is
very uncommon in the animal world it’s
really only been observed in chimpanzees
and bonobos chimps just seeing the kiss
to make up and bonobos suck on each
other’s tongue if you count that as
kissing so maybe kissing in humans has
more to do with the primal parts of our
brain the other theory is that kissing
is a socially acceptable way for people
to smell each other yeah did you know
that a good sniff can tell you pretty
much everything you need to know about a
person pheromones have everything to do
with attraction and we think that
sensing these pheromones through
activities like kissing releases all
sorts of juices into your system that
make you feel great like serotonin which
boosts your mood and dopamine which
makes your brain register pleasure
adrenaline which raises your heart rate
and oxytocin which helps you form
attachments so no matter how disgusting
that bacteria party might sound you’ve
probably grown up an environment that
programmed you to want to do it and when
you do you feel good so like it or not
by now we’re wired that way do you have
a great kissing story share it in the
comments below this video
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you
begins to quicken and you lean in and
mash your face into another person’s
face we’re 80 million bacteria are doing
a big old dance in your digestive juices
she’s thinking oh he should have ordered
no onions he’s thinking is that a
lipstick stain or a beginning of a cold
sore and yet there’s nothing like good
kiss people have written songs about it
stories made movies but why exactly do
we do it I’m Erica Bergman and we’re
wired that way your parents might be the
first people you ever saw kiss it’s
learned behavior so is how you do it but
when it comes to romantic kissing only
about 46% of contemporary cultures do it
for example the Inuit of Perry Islands
nuzzle noses instead which may be where
the term Eskimo kiss comes from but in
the cultures where we do kiss it’s super
important to the success of a
relationship sixty-six percent of women
and 59 percent of men report ending a
new relationship based on a bad first
kiss because really is there any coming
back from an icky lip-lock but when was
the first first kiss and aren’t you
dying to know how it was the first
record of a romantic kiss was for more
than 3,500 years ago in a Sanskrit text
where it was likened to inhaling each
other’s souls
[Music]
romantic isn’t it kissing is mentioned
in the Bible the Kama Sutra Cleopatra is
rumored to have been great at it so it’s
been around for a long time but what is
it about the physical act of kissing
that makes us want to do it kissing is
very uncommon in the animal world it’s
really only been observed in chimpanzees
and bonobos chimps just seeing the kiss
to make up and bonobos suck on each
other’s tongue if you count that as
kissing so maybe kissing in humans has
more to do with the primal parts of our
brain the other theory is that kissing
is a socially acceptable way for people
to smell each other yeah did you know
that a good sniff can tell you pretty
much everything you need to know about a
person pheromones have everything to do
with attraction and we think that
sensing these pheromones through
activities like kissing releases all
sorts of juices into your system that
make you feel great like serotonin which
boosts your mood and dopamine which
makes your brain register pleasure
adrenaline which raises your heart rate
and oxytocin which helps you form
attachments so no matter how disgusting
that bacteria party might sound you’ve
probably grown up an environment that
programmed you to want to do it and when
you do you feel good so like it or not
by now we’re wired that way do you have
a great kissing story share it in the
comments below this video
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you
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