The Importance of Kisses

In addition, when we kiss, we "feel" the partner with the receptors of the oral mucosa, breathe in its smell - and we get information about his health and emotional well-being in this way. True, these valuable information usually pass our consciousness, but our intelligent brain is able to draw conclusions without it.

Another purely prosaic purpose of the kiss is to increase immunity. Kissing with different people, we exchange not only genetic information, but also banal bacteria. If the partner just had time to pick up some ORZ, then we have a chance to share this dubious pleasure with him. But in other cases our body most often successfully produces antibodies to unfamiliar microorganisms.

Tenderness and affection

However, all this physiology does not completely abolish the fact that kissing for us is really useful and important. For example, it is logical to assume that the more partners are tied to each other, the more often they will kiss. But in fact, this pattern is more complex and interesting than it seems. When we kiss, in our blood the level of oxytocin, a hormone, is raised, which is responsible, among other things, for the formation of a feeling of attachment. So during a tender or passionate kiss, we not only express affection and tenderness, but also strengthen them!

By the way, oxytocin is not the only biologically active substance, to the level of which we can influence, just by kissing. The levels of dopamine and endorphins also rise - in fact, therefore, a sensual kiss gives us so much joy (and sometimes euphoria can cause). But the level of cortisol, one of the hormones of stress, on the contrary, decreases. By the way, experiments confirm: people who adore passionately kiss, on the whole demonstrate enviable stress resistance and love of life.

Surprisingly, but the fact: when we kiss, our brain gets even more serious stimulation than when we make love. Imagine what a storm it is if we combine both activities!

Lie detector

When a couple stops kissing, most often this means that the relationship is close to breaking. And if they are preserved, then the life of these two becomes more like joint management than love. By the way, it is believed that imitating the pleasure of kissing is more difficult than orgasm: the partner will immediately feel any insincerity. Yes, and the kiss itself is able to tell the whole truth about our feelings. You can want sex with a person who is practically indifferent to you. But here it is almost impossible to want to kiss him.