Fun Facts About Kissing

Getting to know and experience someone we like is rarely matched when it comes to how great it makes us feel. Anticipation, excitement, butterflies, and pure happiness are some of the emotions we experience at the very beginning of a relationship, and everything seems to appear brighter and take on more meaning.
Of course physical chemistry can play a very big part in enhancing and amplifying our emotions; touching, hugging and kissing for the first time can seem to send us to the moon. Kissing especially, even though 90% of the world does it, can tell us a lot about each other and is an extremely unique experience.

Fun Facts About Kissing

1. Kissing is healthy. Research shows that things like circulation, tooth decay, skin and headaches are all improved by the act of kissing. Kissing for one minute burns 26 calories.

2. What's your number? The average female kisses 29 men before getting married.

3. The longest kiss. The world record for the longest kiss is 30 hours and 59 minutes!

4. It's illegal. Kissing is still illegal in parts of the United States; in Hartford, Connecticut, it's illegal for women to kiss their husbands on a Sunday.

5. So sensitive... Your lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of your fingers.

6. Live longer. Men who kiss their wives before leaving for work live on average five years longer.

7. It's a workout. The average french kiss uses 29 muscles in the face.

8. Two out of three. Two out of three couples move their heads to the right when they kiss.

9. 336 hours. This is the amount of time the average person spends out of their life kissing.

10. Night vision. Our brains have neurons which help us locate each other's lips in the dark.