Men like wet kisses; women long
"Men like to push to
make kisses
sloppier, while
women want to
keep them long,
suggest a new
study.
Also, a kiss shared
between a man
and a woman
seems more like a
clash of spirits
than a meeting of
souls.
"Women tend to
use kissing to
create a bond with
their partners, and
to assess them as
potential mates.
Meanwhile, men
use kissing as a
means to an end,"
said Susan
Hughes, a
psychologist at
Albright College in
Pennsylvania, told
Life's Little
Mysteries.
And that end is
sex.
"Males are kissing
primarily to
increase arousal
for their partner,"
she said.
Hughes and her
colleagues
researchers
probed the kissing
preferences and
opinions of more
than 1,000 males
and females in
their sexual prime
- college
undergraduates -
who were asked
to mark their
answers to a
series of detailed
kissing questions
on a 5-point scale.
The results
showed that both
men and women
consider kissing an
important and
highly intimate
interaction. Both
sexes use kissing
to gauge the
relationship
compatibility of
themselves and
their partners.
Furthermore, both
may become more
or less attracted
to their partners
based solely on
their experience
kissing them, a
result that lends
support to the
theory that
pheromones and
other important
biochemical signals
get exchanged
when people kiss.
But the similarities
end there. While
women usually
consider a bad kiss
to be a deal-
breaker, men
reported that they
would more than
likely still have sex
with a woman
even if she were a
bad kisser.
In fact, the data
showed that
males feel much
more strongly that
kissing should lead
to sex than
females do.
"Whereas females
felt there was a
greater likelihood
that kissing should
lead to sex with a
long-term partner
than a short-term
partner, males felt
that in either
instance, kissing
should lead to
sex," wrote the
researchers.
Men also like
significantly
wetter kisses. The
gender divide
becomes drastic
when the kissing
involves short-
term partners,
who presumably
hold primarily
sexual rather than
romantic appeal. In
the short-term,
men like kisses to
be wet, while
women do not.
Psychologists
hypothesize that
males "perceive a
greater wetness
or salivary
exchange during
kissing as an index
of the female's
sexual arousal/
receptivity, similar
to the act of
sexual
intercourse,"
wrote Hughes.
Follow-up research
conducted by
Helen Fisher, an
anthropologist at
Rutgers
University, in 2009
even found that
men pass
testosterone to
women via their
saliva, which may
momentarily
increase the
women's sex drive.
The findings were
published in the
journal
Evolutionary
Psychology."
courtesy:ANIr, while
women want to
keep them long,
suggest a new
study.
Also, a kiss shared
between a man
and a woman
seems more like a
clash of spirits
than a meeting of
souls.
"Women tend to
use kissing to
create a bond with
their partners, and
to assess them as
potential mates.
Meanwhile, men
use kissing as a
means to an end,"
said Susan
Hughes, a
psychologist at
Albright College in
Pennsylvania, told
Life's Little
Mysteries.
And that end is
sex.
"Males are kissing
primarily to
increase arousal
for their partner,"
she said.
Hughes and her
colleagues
researchers
probed the kissing
preferences and
opinions of more
than 1,000 males
and females in
their sexual prime
- college
undergraduates -
who were asked
to mark their
answers to a
series of detailed
kissing questions
on a 5-point scale.
The results
showed that both
men and women
consider kissing an
important and
highly intimate
interaction. Both
sexes use kissing
to gauge the
relationship
compatibility of
themselves and
their partners.
Furthermore, both
may become more
or less attracted
to their partners
based solely on
their experience
kissing them, a
result that lends
support to the
theory that
pheromones and
other important
biochemical signals
get exchanged
when people kiss.
But the similarities
end there. While
women usually
consider a bad kiss
to be a deal-
breaker, men
reported that they
would more than
likely still have sex
with a woman
even if she were a
bad kisser.
In fact, the data
showed that
males feel much
more strongly that
kissing should lead
to sex than
females do.
"Whereas females
felt there was a
greater likelihood
that kissing should
lead to sex with a
long-term partner
than a short-term
partner, males felt
that in either
instance, kissing
should lead to
sex," wrote the
researchers.
Men also like
significantly
wetter kisses. The
gender divide
becomes drastic
when the kissing
involves short-
term partners,
who presumably
hold primarily
sexual rather than
romantic appeal. In
the short-term,
men like kisses to
be wet, while
women do not.
Psychologists
hypothesize that
males "perceive a
greater wetness
or salivary
exchange during
kissing as an index
of the female's
sexual arousal/
receptivity, similar
to the act of
sexual
intercourse,"
wrote Hughes.
Follow-up research
conducted by
Helen Fisher, an
anthropologist at
Rutgers
University, in 2009
even found that
men pass
testosterone to
women via their
saliva, which may
momentarily
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