Pony Party: osculation

osculation os-kyuh-LAY-shuhn, noun:

The act of kissing; also: a kiss.

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I saw this article in the WaPo last weekend The Differences in Gender — Sealed With a Kiss

It’s about a study about kissing and why it is an adaptive human trait.  (Hughes, S.M., Harrison, M.A., and Gallup, G.G. Jr.  Sex Differences in Romantic Kissing Among College Students:  An Evolutionary Perspective. Evolutionary Psychology 5(3): 612-631,  2007).  PDF

Kissing was examined as a mate assessment device, a means of promoting pair bonds, and a means of inducing sexual arousal and receptivity. A total 1,041 college students completed one of three questionnaires measuring kissing preferences, attitudes, styles, and behaviors.

Hypotheses:

• You can get information about a person by their breath and the taste of their saliva.


• Kissing promotes bonding.  


• Kissing is a way of inducing sexual arousal.  

Main finding:

Big surprise …. Kissing is involved in choosing a mate.

The gender differences were the most interesting results.

1. Women placed more emphasis on taste and smell.







2. Women were more likely to refuse to have sex with a partner unless they kissed first.  More than half of the men said they would have sex without kissing first, but fewer than 15 percent of the women said the same.   Women were also more likely to refuse sex from a bad kisser.








3. Men were more likely to expect kissing to lead to sex.  More than half the men thought kissing was foreplay – only one third of the women thought so.  








4. Men were more likely to want to exchange saliva during kissing.  
   

   “Males like the very moist, wet open-mouth kisses,” Hughes said. “We didn’t expect that.”









5. Men were more likely to think that kissing is a good way to end a fight.  

Hmmmm …..

Okay then!  This is an Open Thread.  Don’t rec the Pony Party.

mwah!