Kissing: Its Vital Role in Choosing and Keeping Partners

Two new studies of kissing have found that apart from being sexy, kissing also helps people choose partners–and keep them. 

In a survey carried out recently, it was said that women in particular rated kissing as important vital communication signs in building up their relationship, however more promiscuous members of both sexes rated kissing has a very important way of testing out a new partner if he is the one or not.

I know there is this chemistry that comes with kissing someone you love. Well if you are so into kisses like me, am sure you understand what am talking about *wink 

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Anyways, one of the study’s authors Professor Robin Dunbar explained that kissing may help solve the ‘Jane Austen’ problem: “In choosing partners, we have to deal with the ‘Jane Austen problem’: How long do you wait for Mr Darcy to come along when you can’t wait forever and there may be lots of women waiting just for him? At what point do you have to compromise for the curate? …[and] kissing plays a role in assessing a potential partner.” But kissing isn’t just important at the start of a relationship; it also has a role in maintaining a relationship. 

The researchers found a correlation between the amount of kissing that long-term partners did and the quality of their relationship. This link wasn’t seen between more sex and improved relationship satisfaction. 

In a second study, the researchers looked at the link between women’s menstrual cycle and the importance of kissing. What they found was that when relationships were young, kissing was most important at the most fertile stage of women’s cycles. This suggests kissing could be a way of assessing a potential partner’s genes.

How much kisses do you give your partner, do you share this view? Does kissing helps you know what your partners feels about you? How do you feel the first time you missed your partner? 

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