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self-respecting author would ever have dared to put into a book. Birth-c\
ontrol, divorce and the science of
marriage are common subjects for books. Even the strange vices of mankin\
d are brought out into the
open and discussed and not allowed to fester in the dark chambers of cen\
sorship. Yes, books like Van de
Velde's "Ideal Marriage" and Stope's "Married Love" Ire openly sold in b\
ookstores. But, nowhere, do we
find a book which instructs people in the art of kissing, an art which i\
s an absolute essential to a happy
-life, as we shall discuss in the oncoming pages of this book. Is it bec\
ause we are not absolutely freed
from the shackles of prudishness? In certain parts of this country, men \
have been arrested for kissing
their wives on the street! Is this civilization?
So it is, that this book is being written. It is going to be a manual of\
the kiss. In it we are going to discuss
the most approved methods of kissing, the ad' vantages. of certain kinds\
and, with the disadvantages of
others, the mental and physical reactions of kissers, historical episode\
s of kissing together with examples
from the literature of the world in which kisses were the subject. So, g\
ird up your loins, pucker up your
lips and let's to the kissing arena!
WHY PEOPLE KISS
What happens when a man and a woman kiss?
That is to say, what happens, to the various parts of the body when two \
people in love join their lips in
bliss? Years ago, before our biologists knew of the existence of the gla\
nds in our bodies, one writer
quoted a scientist as saying that "kissing is pleasant because the teeth\
, jawbones and lips are full of
nerves, and when the lips meet an electric current is generated."
What nonsense! what utter nonsense!
In the first place, two people kiss because they are satisfying, a hunge\
r within them, a hunger that is as
natural as the hunger for-food, water and knowledge. It is the hunger of\
sex that drives them to each
other. After that, hunger has been satiated, then comes the hunger for a\
home, for children and for marital
happiness. This hunger is instinctive, that is, we are born with it, all\
of us, and we cannot learn it or
acquire it in any way.
WHY KISSING IS PLIEASANT
Once this hunger for the opposite sex evidences itself, there occurs in \
the human body what is known as
tumescence which, in simple language, is the rhythmical contraction of the various\
muscles of the body
together with the functioning of certain glands, just which glands scien\
ce has been unable to say
definitely. Gland specialists know, by performing certain operations, th\
at the adrenal, the pituitary, the
gonad and certain other glands, control the sexual behavior of human bei\
ngs. It is these glands that re-act,
that secrete what are known as hormones into the blood which, in turn, c\
arries them into the various
organs effected by a sexual reaction.
Therefore, it can be seen that it is the partial satisfying of the sex-h\
unger that makes kissing pleasurable.'
Electricity is used for turning motors and lighting lamps and heating cu\
rling irons. But electricity 4oes
not give complete satisfaction to the kiss.
But enough of dry science!
The Art of Kissing
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We have ahead of us pleasurable reading of the bliss of the kiss. Now th\
at we have learned why it is that
men and women kiss, let us go into the methods used in. kissing so as to\
derive the most satisfaction
from this most soul-appeasing of pleasures.
APPROVIED METHODS OF KISSING
The only kiss that counts is the one exchanged by two people who are in \
love with each other. That is the
first essential of the satisfying kiss. For a kiss is really the union o\
f two soul-mates who have come
together because they were made for each other. The. reason for this is \
that the kiss is really the
introduction to love, true love. The kiss prepares the participants for \
the love life of the future. It is the
foundation, the starting point of sexual love. And it is for that reason\
that the manner in which the kiss is
performed is so vitally important.
There are still young women extant who believe that babies are the resul\
t of kisses Actually! this is a
fact! And this condition exists because our parents, in the main, are ei\
ther ignorant of the methods of
explaining sex to their children or are too embarrassed to enlighten the\
m. The result is that their children
obtain their sexual information from the streets and alleys or else rema\
in ignorant of it and believe such
things as was mentioned above.
KISSES ARE BUT PRELUDES TO LOVE
Man and woman are born to love, marry and beget children. Woman is so ph\
ysically constituted that she
is the one who bears the child. Man, on the other hand, is given the dut\
y of