Genesis 29:11 features the first man-woman kiss in the Bible, when Jacob flees from Esau and goes to the house of his uncle Laban:Īnd Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. The earliest reference to kissing in the Old Testament is in Genesis 27:26, when Jacob deceives his father to obtain his blessing:Īnd his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. I will arise and break the bands of Death. Come! Come! Come! And kiss me when I die,įor life, compelling life, is in thy breath Īnd at that kiss, though in the tomb I lie, His kisses on my lips, my breast, my hair. When we kiss, and her warm lips half open, Kissing is described in the surviving ancient Egyptian love poetry from the New Kingdom, found on papyri excavated at Deir el-Medina:Īnd wake up from this ever lasting sleep. When my sweet precious, my heart, had lain down too,Įach of them in turn kissing with the tongue, each in turn. My lips are too small, they know not to kiss. īoth lip and tongue kissing are mentioned in Sumerian poetry: The earliest reference to kissing-like behavior comes from the Vedas, Sanskrit scriptures that informed Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, around 3,500 years ago, according to Vaughn Bryant, an anthropologist at Texas A&M University who specializes in the history of the kiss.
The fact that not all human cultures kiss is used as a argument against kissing being an instinctual behaviour in humans only around 90% of the human population is believed to practice kissing. Another theory posits that the practice originated in males during the paleolithic era tasting the saliva of females to test their health in order to determine whether they would make a good partner for procreation. Others believe that it is a learned behaviour, having evolved from activities such as suckling or premastication in early human cultures passed on to modern humans. Those that believe kissing to be an instinctual behaviour, cite similar behaviours in other animals such as bonobos, which are known to kiss after fighting - possibly to restore peace. Similar videos started appearing in her feed.Anthropologists disagree on whether kissing is an instinctual or learned behaviour.
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Three have since come out as lesbians, and one as queer. As their "For You" pages filled with queer content, the women began to question the years they spent solely pursuing relationships with men.