A new deep dive into humanity's history of romantic kissing has revealed that locking lips has a more complex story than some researchers have proposed.
1 , the pathogen responsible for cold sores, might help trace the cultural transmission of kissing some 5,000 years ago.
"Evidence indicates that kissing was a common practice in ancient times, potentially representing a constant influence on the spread of orally transmitted microbes, such as HSV-1,""It therefore seems unlikely that kissing would have arisen as an immediate behavioral adaptation in other contemporary societies, which inadvertently accelerated disease transmission."
The history of romantic kissing is tricky to unravel, and experts don't agree on whether it's learned or instinctive. We know that kissing is certainly not unique to humans; bonobos and chimpanzees kiss each other. On the other hand, previous research has found that romantic kissing is. That same research also found that the more socially complex a culture, the more romantic kissing its people engage in.
While adults might kiss their children, the act of adults kissing one another out of pure enjoyment is often harder to decipher in the historic record. According to Arbøll and Rasmussen, references to romantic kissing can be found in the earliest Sumerian texts from 2500 BCE onwards, described in relation to erotic acts, with a particular focus on the lips.
"In ancient Mesopotamia, which is the name for the early human cultures that existed between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in present-day Iraq and Syria, people wrote in cuneiform script on clay tablets.
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