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or while being kissed.
Personally, I disagree with those who advise closed eyes. To me, there i\
s an additional thrill in seeing,
before my eyes, the drama of bliss and pleasure as it is played on the f\
ace of my beloved. I can see tiny
wrinkles form at the comers of her eyes, wrinkles of joy. I can see flee\
ting spasms of happiness flit
across her eyes. I can see these things and, in seeing them, my pleasura\
ble reactions to the kiss are
considerably heightened. In keeping my eyes open, I am giving pleasure n\
ot to one sense alone, the sense
of touch, but to two senses, the senses of touch and of sight. These two\
, coupled with the sense of smell
which is actuated by the perfume of her breath, all combine to make the \
kiss an exquisite, ineffable
epitome of unalloyed bliss.
HOW TO KISS GIRLS WITH DIFFERENT SIZES OF
MOUTHS
Another question which must be settled at this time concerns the size of\
the kissee's mouth. A
consideration of this factor is important. Where the girl's mouth is of \
the tiny, rosebud type, then one
need not worry about what to do. Merely follow the directions as they we\
re outlined above. However,
there are many girls whose lips are broad and generous', whose lips are \
on the order of Joan Crawford's,
for instance.. The technique in kissing such lips is different.
Different Sizes of Mouths Require a Different Technique in Kissing
For, were one to allow his lips to remain centered, there would be wide \
expanses of lips, untouched and,
therefore, wasted. In such cases,. instead of remaining adhered to the c\
enter of the lips, the young man
should lift up his lips a trifle and begin to travel around the girl's l\
ips, stopping a number of times to drop
a firm kiss in passing. When you have made a complete round of the lips,\
return immediately to the
center bud and feast there. Feast there as did that lover of Fatimas, in\
Tennysen's poem, in which it was
written that: "Once he drew, with one long kiss, my whole soul through m\
y lips-as sunlight drinketh
dew."
Then, sip of the honey.
Like the bee that settles on the fragrant pistils of a flower, and sips \
in the nectar for honey, so should you
sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love. And it is nectar. \
For there is in this mingling a
symbol of the holy communion o f the spirits of two soul-mates, joined t\
ogether in the bonds of an
indissoluble love. It was a kiss such as this which caused the writer of\
an old German novel to write:
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"Sophia returned my kiss and the earth went from under my feet; my soul \
was no longer in
my body; I touched the stars; I knew the happiness of angels!"
ENJOY THE THRILLS OF KISSING
But don't be in a hurry I As in all matters pertaining to love, don't hu\
rry the process of kissing. A kiss is
too rapturous a thing to be enjoyed for the moment and the moment only. \
Linger longer on her lips than
you have ever lingered before. Forget time. Forget everything but the ki\
ss in which you are in the midst
of. Don't be like that bashful young lover who, after a sweet, long kiss\
, drew his lips away from the lips
of his charmer. Immediately, She burst out into tears.
"What's the matter?" he asked solicitously.
"You don't love me I" she said between sobs.
"But I do!"
"Then why did you draw your lips away?"
"I couldn't breathe," he said naively.
Breathe? Who wants to breathe, who even wants to think of breathing in t\
he middle of an impassioned
kiss? Breathe through your nose if you have to breathe. But kiss, keep o\
n kissing, as long as there! Is one
minim of breath in you. Kiss, as Byron said we should kiss, with the "lo\
ng, long kiss of youth and love."
Recently, in Chicago, there was held a marathon kissing contest to deter\
mine Which couple could hold
their kiss the longest without being forced to separate. One pair was ab\
le to hold their kiss for fifteen
hours. Think of that! Fifteen hours. And yet the naive lad stopped kissi\
ng because be couldn't breathe.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning must have spent many an ecstatic night of kis\
sing with the poet, Robert
Browning, if we are to judge from an excerpt from her "Aurora Leigh," in\
which she described a kiss as
being "As long and silent as the ecstatic night."
Another poet, unknown, but certainly one who knew whereof he speaks, wro\
te the following poem which
deserves to be quoted in its entirety.Oh, that a joy so soon should waste,
Or so sweet a bliss as a kiss
Might not forever last!
So sugared, so melting, -so delicious.
The dew that lies on roses,
When the morn herself discloses,
Is not so precious.
Oh, rather than I would it smother
Were I