The Art of Kissing, Angielski, Ebooki dla kobiet po angielsku
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by HUGH MORRIS
(first published in 1936)
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The dictionary says that a kiss is "a salute made by touching with the lips
pressed closely together and suddenly parting them." From this it is quite
obvious that, although a dictionary-may know something about words, it
knows nothing about kissing.
If we are to get the real meaning of the word kiss, instead of going to the old
fogies who compile dictionaries, we should go to the poets who still have the
hot blood of youth coursing in their veins. For, instance, Coleridge called a
kiss, "nectar breathing." Shakespeare says that a kiss is -a "seal of love.
Martial, that old Roman poet who hid ample opportunity to do research work
on the subject, says that a kiss was "the fragrance of balsam extracted- from
aromatic trees; the rise odor yielded by the teeming saffron; the perfume of
fruits mellowing in their winter buds; the flowery meadows in the summer;
amber warmed by the hand of a girl; a bouquet of flowers that attracts the
bees."
Yes, a kiss is all of these ... and more.
Others have said that a kiss was: the balm of love; the first and last of joys;
love's language; the seal of bliss; love's tribute; the melting sip; the nectar of
Venus; the language of love.
Yes, a kiss is all of these . . . and more.
For a kiss can never be absolutely defined. Because each kiss is different from
the one before and the one after. just as no two people are alike, so are no
two kisses alike. For it is people who make kisses. Real, live people pulsating
with life and love and extreme happiness.
DIFFFERENT KINDS OF KISSES
Of course, there are different kinds of kisses. For instance, there is the kiss
that the devout person implants on the ring of the Pope. There is the maternal
kiss of a mother on her child. There is the friendly kiss of two people who are
meeting or are separating. There is the kiss that a king exacts from his
conquered subjects. But although all of these are called kisses, they are not
the kisses* that we are going to concern ourselves with in this book. Our
kisses are going to be the only kind of kisses worth considering . the kisses of
love. The kiss perhaps, that Robert-Bums had in mind when he wrote:
Honeyed seal of soft affections,
Tenderest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
Love's first snowdrop, virgin kiss.
The amazing thing about the kiss is that although mankind has been kissing
ever since Adam first turned over on his side and saw Eve lying next to him,
there has been practically nothing written on the subject. Every year, hundreds
of books are published telling you how to reduce, how to gain, how to get a
job, how to cook, how to write and even how to live. But, on the art of kissing,
very little has been written. - One reason for this lack of proper instruction is
accounted for by the Victorian. sense of morals which has persisted through
the ages. To the blue-nosed Puritans of the past anything that concerned love
was dirty, pornographical. John Bunyan's writings show what these, Puritans
thought of' the kiss. He wrote in big infamous "The Pilgrim's Progress," "the
common salutations of women I abhor. It is odious to me in whomsoever I see
it. When I have seen good men salute those women that they have visited, or
that have visited them, I have made my objections against it; and when they
have answered that it was but a piece of civility, I have told them that it was
not a comely sight. Some, indeed, have urged the holy kiss; but then, I have
asked them why they make their balks; why they- did salute the most
handsome and let the ill-favored ones go." Perhaps old Bunyan thought that
way because be was one of the "ill-favored" who went unkissed and were let
"go."
But, nowadays, people have taken a broader outlook on life. Our plays are
becoming more civilized and less stiff. Our arts are no more censored by laws.
Our books are being written about subjects that no self-respecting author
would ever have dared to put into a book. Birth-control, divorce and the
science of marriage are common subjects for books. Even the strange vices of
mankind are brought out into the open and discussed and not allowed to fester
in the dark chambers of censorship. Yes, books like Van de Velde's "Ideal
Marriage" and Stope's "Married Love" Ire openly sold in bookstores. But,
nowhere, do we find a book which instructs people in the art of kissing, an art
which is an absolute essential to a happy -life, as we shall discuss in the
oncoming pages of this book. Is it because we are not absolutely freed from
the shackles of prudishness? In certain parts of this country, men have been
arrested for kissing their wives on the street! Is this civilization?
So it is, that this book is being written. It is going to be a manual of the kiss.
In it we are going to discuss the most approved methods of kissing, the ad'
vantages. of certain kinds and, with the disadvantages of others, the mental
and physical reactions of kissers, historical episodes of kissing together with
examples from the literature of the world in which kisses were the subject. So,
gird up your loins, pucker up your lips and let's to the kissing arena!
WHY PEOPLE KISS
What happens when a man and a woman kiss?
That is to say, what happens, to the various parts of the body when two people
in love join their lips in bliss? Years ago, before our biologists knew of the
existence of the glands in our bodies, one writer quoted a scientist as saying
that "kissing is pleasant because the teeth, jawbones and lips are full of
nerves, and when the lips meet an electric current is generated."
What nonsense! What utter nonsense!
In the first place, two people kiss because they are satisfying, a hunger within
them, a hunger that is as natural as the hunger for-food, water and
knowledge. It is the hunger of sex that drives them to each other. After that,
hunger has been satiated, then comes the hunger for a home, for children and
for marital happiness. This hunger is instinctive, that is, we are born with it, all
of us, and we cannot learn it or acquire it in any way.
WHY KISSING IS PLEASANT
Once this hunger for the opposite sex evidences itself, there occurs in the
human body what is known
as tumescence
which, in simple language, is the
rhythmical contraction of the various muscles of the body together with the
functioning of certain glands, just which glands science has been unable to say
definitely. Gland specialists know, by performing certain operations, that the
adrenal, the pituitary, the gonad and certain other glands, control the sexual
behavior of human beings. It is these glands that re-act, that secrete what are
known as hormones into the blood which, in turn, carries them into the various
organs effected by a sexual reaction.
Therefore, it can be seen that it is the partial satisfying of the sex-hunger that
makes kissing pleasurable.' Electricity is used for turning motors and lighting
lamps and heating curling irons. But electricity goes not give complete
satisfaction to the kiss.
But enough of dry science!
We have ahead of us pleasurable reading of the bliss of the kiss. Now that we
have learned why it is that men and women kiss, let us go into the methods
used in. kissing so as to derive the most satisfaction from this most soul-
appeasing of pleasures.
APPROVIED METHODS OF KISSING
The only kiss that counts is the one exchanged by two people who are in love
with each other. That is the first essential of the satisfying kiss. For a kiss is
really the union of two soul-mates who have come together because they were
made for each other. The. reason for this is that the kiss is really the
introduction to love, true love. The kiss prepares the participants for the love
life of the future. It is the foundation, the starting point of sexual love. And it is
for that reason that the manner in which the kiss is performed is so vitally
important.
There are still young women extant who believe that babies are the result of
kisses Actually! this is a fact! And this condition exists because our parents, in
the main, are either ignorant of the methods of explaining sex to their children
or are too embarrassed to enlighten them. The result is that their children
obtain their sexual information from the streets and alleys or else remain
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