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By ROBERT C. RADCLIFFE National Orographic New* Service The custom has its own holiday, Valentine’s Day, but its fans celebrate all year long. It’s called kissing.
It has been widely popular for a very long time, it shows no sign of dying out, and any number of famous people have things to say about it.
Several hundred years ago Jonathan Swift posed a basic question: "Lord!” he wrote, "I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.”
History has lost the answer, but kissing was practiced in biblical times, as the Old Testament records in the Song of Solomon 1:2: “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.”
Biting Game
Students of the origins of kissing find the beginnings of it all in the billing and cooing of birds and the biting games of dogs, the National Geographic Society says. Charles Darwin speculated that kissing once had to do with the way wild animals seize their prey with their teeth.
Some opinions vary on whether nose-rubbing is a good idea gone wrong, an intermediate step, or an improvement on Western kissing.
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