1. GET GLOWING. Kissing can actually be a beauty treatment. Scientific tests show that good kissing helps reduce dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. It also makes your skin glow and your eyes shine.

2. A KISS A DAY. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash away food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.

3. TEEN SCENE. Fifty percent of all people have kissed before they turn 14.

4. IT TAKES TWO. Good kissing is a team effort. If something goes wrong, learn and move on.

5. BURN, BABY BURN. Good, rich, passionate kissing can help you burn up to 600 calories per hour!

6. QUICK, CALL 911! “Bad” kisses can be cause for alarm, especially if you get them often. Bad kisses may be a sign that your partner lacks the ability to be totally intimate.

7. OH, BABY! Babies who are kissed usually have a greater capacity for intimacy later in life.

8. IN THE DARK. Our brains have special neurons that help us locate each other’s lips in the dark.

9. SWEET RELIEF. Kissing can relieve headaches. With relaxation, the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain is released. Quality is the key.

10. ABOVE AVERAGE. The average person spends 336 hours of his or her life kissing. At an approximate length of one minute each, that’s 20,160 kisses! It’s worth it to learn to kiss well

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Anthropologists have not reached a consensus as to whether kissing is a learned or an instinctive behavior. It may be related to grooming behavior also seen between other animals, or arising as a result of mothers premasticating food for their children. Kissing allows prospective mates to smell and taste each other's pheromones for biological compatibility. Women are subconsciously more attracted to men whose major histocompatibility complex portion of their genome is different from their own, leading to offspring with resistance to a greater number of diseases, and thus having a better chance of survival

This explains why couples are more likely to bond if they have the right "chemistry". Also, a study by researchers at University at Albany found that women use kissing as a tool to find the right father for their children and to judge men exclusively on the quality of the first kiss that they share. Many other non-human primates also exhibit kissing behaviour.

In modern Western culture, kissing is most commonly an expression of affection. This is unlike many parts of the world where kissing is viewed as a means of respecting others

To avoid a clash of noses while kissing, couples often turn their faces slightly to one side, thereby orienting their heads at an angle with respect to each other. To make this position more comfortable, one member of the couple may support the other, perhaps across the lap or in an embrace—thus combining hugging with kissing. The person supporting the other may tend to take the more active role in the kiss

Kissing is a complex behavior that requires significant muscular coordination; in fact, a total of thirty four muscles working cooperatively. The most important muscle involved is the orbicularis oris muscle, which is used to pucker the lips and informally known as the kissing muscle. The tongue can also be an important part of the kiss. Lips have many nerve endings so they are sensitive to touch.

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