french kissing

A tongue kiss, French kiss, or deep kiss is a romantic or sexual kiss in which one participant's tongue touches the other's tongue (or lips) and usually enters his/her mouth.

Although family members may sometimes kiss on the lips, a kiss using the tongue almost always indicates a romantic or sexual relationship. French kissing stimulates the lips, tongue and mouth, which are all areas very sensitive to touch. It is considered by many to be both very pleasurable and highly intimate. Unlike other forms of "casual" kissing (such as brief kisses of greeting or friendship), episodes of French kissing will often be prolonged, intense, and passionate. It may signal the beginning of a period of "making out" or sex. Because of the intimacy associated with it, in many regions of the world tongue kissing in public is not acceptable to most, particularly for an extended time.^{citation needed]}

In a tongue kiss participants may exchange saliva, which would often be considered disgusting in other contexts, but which may add to the passion and excitement of the sexual kiss. Although most sexually-transmitted diseases are not transmitted by kissing, the exchange of saliva in a French kiss may increase the chances of catching an orally transmitted disease.^{citation needed]} Infectious Mononucleosis (American: Mononucleosis or, colloquially, "mono"; European: Glandular Fever), a disease spread through saliva, is often colloquially referred to as "the kissing disease."

French kissing is commonly used in movies to show willing sex between lovers.^{citation needed]} It is often used by lovers to express their intimate feeling toward each other and more often precedes sex (and frequently continues during sex).^{citation needed]}

French kissing has been traditionally associated with Western societies, but is now becoming quite popular around the world.^{citation needed]}

According to contemporary Hindu regious beliefs, a French kiss can break a "Fast" since it involves exchange of saliva.

Etymology

The term has been attributed to the perception of more liberal views in France towards cunnilingus and oral sex in general (see soixante-neuf).^{citation needed]}

Other names

Another, older name for 'French kissing' is cataglottis, from cata (down), glottis (throat).

It is known colloquially as tongue wrestling, tonsil tennis, tonsil hockey. In the British Isles the phrases snogging, pashing, getting off and in the South-East pulling are common, whereas in Scotland "nipping" is used. In parts of Northern England it is sometimes known as doing a 69'ie or more recently a "meet", while in many parts of Ireland it is referred to as meeting, shifting or scoring someone or "smogging bowls."

• NOTE: In the United States, terms of "getting off" and "69" refer to having sex/orgasm, and mutual oral sex respectively.

In South India, the term English kiss is used. Since old south Indian movies didn't show deep kissing, people got the chance to see them only in British films which are rarely released or dubbed in local languages like Tamil or Telugu.

In Italian, the act is known as "limonare", literally "to lemon". In Quebecois French, it is known as "frencher".

In Spanish, it is known as "morrear", which may be translated as "muzzling".

During the period of poor relations between the United States and France just prior to the onset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, French kissing was humorously euphemized as "Freedom Kissing" in a parody of "Freedom Fries".

References in culture

• French Kiss is a 1995 movie starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline.
• Deep Kiss is a series of Japanese pornographic lesbian movies, dedicated entirely to French kissing.
• French Kiss is a francophone-language music video program block aired on Canadian music tv station MuchMusic.
• French Kiss is a 1979 Music Group that topped the Disco Charts with their hit single "Panic".
• French Kissing is a pop song by Debbie Harry.
• French Kiss is a house track by Lil Louis.
• FKiSS or French KiSS is an extension of the Kisekae Set System.
• Deep French Kiss is the name of a yaoi doujinshii by Chizuko Manazuru, centered around two characters of the Prince of Tennis series.
• French Kiss was the name of a French 12-Metre yacht that competed in the 1987 America's Cup.

External links

• wikiHow - How to French Kiss