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to taste such another.
It. should be my wishing
That I might die kissing.
At this point, it should be explained that the lips are not the only par\
t of the mouth which should be
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joined in kissing. Every lover is a glutton. He wants everything that is\
part of his sweetheart, everything.
He doesn't want to miss a single iota of her "million-pleasured joys" as\
Keats once wrote of them. That is
why, when kissing, there should be as many contacts, bodily contacts, as\
is possible.
Snuggle up closely together. Feel the warm touch of each other's bodies.\
Be so close that the rise and fall
of each other's bosoms is felt by one another.
Get next to each other.
"Snuggle Up Closely Together"
And, this same thing applies to the mouth in kissing. Don't be afraid to\
kiss with more than your lips.
After your lips have been glued together for some time, open them slight\
ly. Then put the tip of your
tongue out so that you can feel the smooth surface of your kissee's teet\
h. This will be a signal for her to
respond in kind. If she is wholly in accord with you, if she is, truly, \
your real love-mate, then you will
notice that she, too, has opened her lips slightly and that., soon, her \
teeth will be parted. Then, if she is all
that she should be, she should project the tip of her tongue so that it \
meets with the tip of yours.
Heaven will be in that union!
Lava will run through your veins instead of blood. Your breath will come\
in short gasps. There will rise
up in you an Overpowering, overwhelming surge of emotion such as you hav\
e never before experienced.
If you are a man, you will clutch the shoulders of your loved one and se\
nse a shudder course through you
that makes you pant. If you are a woman, and being kissed, you will feel\
a strange languor passing
through your limbs, you-r entire body. A shudder will go through you. Yo\
u will moan in the delicious
transports of love. And, in all probabilities, you will go faint because\
the blood in your veins will be
rushing furiously into your entire system and away from your head. Thus,\
you will be unable to think any
longer. You will only be able to feel, td feel the most exquisite of ple\
asures that it has been your lot to
feel.
THE FRENCH "SOUL" KISS
But don't stop at this.
Surely, there is more to your tongue than merely its tip. Probe further.\
Go deeper. Gently caress ,each
other's tongues. For, in doing this, you are merging your souls. That is\
why this kiss was called the "soul"
kiss by the French who were said to be the first people to have perfecte\
d it.. The French have always
been a liberal minded people. And, it is because of the fact that they d\
ropped Puritanism many years ago,
that they were able to. perfect themselves in the art of love and, parti\
cularly, in the art of kissing.
Learn from the French.
Learn also from the Old Romans , especially Catullus, whose love poems t\
o Lesbia have lived through
the ages because of the sincerity of his passion and the genius of his a\
bility to express his emotions in the
form of beautiful poetry. For it was Catullus who wrote:"Then to those kisses add a hundred more,
A thousand to that hundred so, kiss on!
To make that thousand up to a million;
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Treble this million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."
Kisses cost nothing. So kiss on. There is one thing that you cannot. tak\
e away from people and that is the
ability to make love to each other. Despite the fact that the world suff\
ered from a long depression, people
continued to get married and they continued to have children. In fact, a\
ccording to recently released
figures, there were, more children born during the depression than there\
had been in good times. This
means that, although married people did not have money, they still had t\
hemselves. They still had love.
They still had the ability to kiss as they pleased and when they pleased\
and as often as they pleased.
Another poet asks: What is a kiss? alack, at worst,
A-single drop to quench a thirst,
Tho oft it proves in happier hour,
The first sweet drop of one long shower.
Because kisses cost nothing.
So kiss on. Keep on kissing. Rare old Ben Jonson realized this when he w\
rote that, if he had one wish, it
would be that he could die kissing. But it is not only the robust and lu\
sty poets, like Ben Jonson, who are
gluttons for kisses. There has been attributed to John Ruskin, an old fo\
gy of a philosopher if ever there
was one, a request