I assume kissing comes from a parent chewing up food and then transferring it to the baby.
This is innate “caring” behavior.
Similarly, mammary glands are for providing milk/nutrition.
These get associated with primal needs and therefore the amygdala, and so is associated with strong emotion.
Kissing is so weird. You can make up a thousand just-so stories. You can imagine it meant totally different things through time and across cultures.
For me it just seems like yet another culturally-defined signal of intimacy. Like showing ankles or chests or saying this or that. Seems to me trying to make everything some hard wired evolutionary thing is a dead end.
OK, now date the last one :)
Many people kiss animals but can't kiss another human from a country X, culture Y or who has opinion Z.
I'd rather kiss my dog, whom I love, over a random person that I have little in common with. Is that somehow weird to you?
I assume kissing comes from a parent chewing up food and then transferring it to the baby.
This is innate “caring” behavior.
Similarly, mammary glands are for providing milk/nutrition.
These get associated with primal needs and therefore the amygdala, and so is associated with strong emotion.
Kissing is so weird. You can make up a thousand just-so stories. You can imagine it meant totally different things through time and across cultures.
For me it just seems like yet another culturally-defined signal of intimacy. Like showing ankles or chests or saying this or that. Seems to me trying to make everything some hard wired evolutionary thing is a dead end.
OK, now date the last one :)
Many people kiss animals but can't kiss another human from a country X, culture Y or who has opinion Z.
I'd rather kiss my dog, whom I love, over a random person that I have little in common with. Is that somehow weird to you?
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