Not that kind of Kiss, but I couldn’t resist…

I’m talking about this kind of kiss..

photo credit: Pedrosimoes7

The kind of kiss that is explained in 175 pages, in the  book The Art of Kissing by William Cane. Back in the day – when I was a TV producer for a show called Naked New York on Metro TV – we interviewed Mr. Cane, a shy sort of fella who had a really passion for kissing (duh!). At that point in my life, I thought everyone loved to kiss.

Sadly, I now know that’s not true. And even some people who do like to kiss, don’t like to kiss for the hours, heck days, that I could go on kissing. My first kisses were some of the best, longest, most intense kisses I’ve ever known. That’s why I think I still love kissing sooooo much.

Since then, I’ve had my share of  good kissers and “other” kissers. I choose not to use the words bad kissers, because while they weren’t good for me, they may have been great for someone else. And I used to think you could train anyone to kiss, and maybe you can, but I don’t have the patience to try. I believe that by a certain age we like to kiss the way we like to kiss, and if that initial base of kissability isn’t there, then you might as well kiss it all goodbye.

That being said, while I can’t read a whole book on kissing, I still get a kick out of flipping through the pages. Truth is, I’d rather just practice. But since I’m not practicing right now, reading bits of the Art of Kissing is kind of fun(ny). From advice on how to kiss in public (make sure you’re standing in a place where people won’t bump into you, kiss your partner boldly and without shame, don’t get paranoid, don’t make an announcement to the crowd) to how to pass liquids from one mouth to another*, this book is the kind of thing that makes you think you may not know all there is to know about kissing. I mean do you know what is a butterfly kiss, a vacuum kiss and an electric kiss?

*personal aside: this was once done to me. With some form of peppermint liquid out in the hot desert sun. I wasn’t expecting it and it totally grossed me out and turned me off to ever kissing this person again. So make sure your partner knows you, or knows you’re going to pass liquid into their mouth, before you do it, otherwise you may never kiss this person the same way again.