When was kissing started

The Mahabharata , a Sanskrit epic compiled by the 4th century A. It can also be a sign of friendship or betrayal. In the Gospels of Matthew and Mark , written circa the 1st century, Judas betrays Jesus by identifying him with a kiss so that armed men can take him away and eventually kill him.

May Irwin and John C. Rice, stars of the short film, "May Irwin kiss," by Thomas Edison's studio. The first people to smooch on film were May Irwin and John C. On stage, no one thought the kiss was that sensational.

Hefner Moving Image Archive. In , film historians rediscovered the footage, which was filmed by a white man named William Selig in Chicago.

What is important with lip-on-lip kissing and other types of kissing is that the moment is about sharing close, intimate information about each other. Kissing by pressing our lips together is an almost uniquely human behaviour. If kissing has an evolutionary purpose, why don't we see more animals kissing? One of the reasons we might have been compelled to get up close to the face of a partner is to give them a good sniff.

Scent can reveal all sorts of useful information: diet, presence of disease, mood and relatedness, to name some. Join one million Future fans by liking us on Facebook , or follow us on Twitter or Instagram. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. Still today, a handshake is used as a gesture of peace in Catholic Church in place of the holy kiss. The great "age of kissing" in England and much of Europe ended in the mid- to late s, when it was replaced by other gestures, such as bows, curtsies and topping one's hat.

According to Bryant, the Great Plague of in London, rather than the strict Church laws, played a role in the change. Between and , during the Industrial Revolution, the hand kiss became popular in England and eventually evolved into handshaking. In , a silent film called "The Kiss" showed for the first time two actors, May Irwin and John Rice, repeatedly kissing.

The scene caused a scandal, as this contemporary review testify: "The spectacle of the prolonged pasturing on each other's lips was beastly enough in life size on the stage, but magnified to gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over -- it is absolutely disgusting.

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