Well, maybe not you and I, specifically, but people in general. From the health blog on WSJ.com:
Why do we kiss? An Albright College psychology professor and some colleagues recently conducted in-depth interviews with 1,041 students at the University of Albany to explore three hypotheses about the purpose of kissing: mate assessment, bonding and inducing sexual arousal, according to the Washington Post. The researchers found evidence supporting all three hypotheses. Some interesting tidbits: More than half of men said they would have sex without kissing first, while fewer than 15% of women said they would. This may mean women use kissing for “mate assessments” more than men do. Meanwhile, men were much more likely to want to exchange more saliva during a kiss. Bonus vocabulary: kissing is osculation in academia.
gs comment:
Women - "How are you as a husband?" Men - "Let's swap spit!"
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Re: Why we kiss
This is wholly unsurprising, since most men want to mate with any person with a pulse.gsabc wrote:Some interesting tidbits: More than half of men said they would have sex without kissing first, while fewer than 15% of women said they would.
This excerpt from When Harry Met Sally sums it up nicely:
Harry Burns: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally Albright: So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?
Harry Burns: No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too.
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