In 1963, a man by the name of “Hugh Morris” wrote an illustrated pamphlet that teaches lovers how to kiss.
The charming guide, entitled ‘
The Art of Kissing’,
tells of the various types of kisses—such as “The Vacuum Kiss” and “The
Dancing Kiss”—and gives the reader tips like how to approach a girl for
a kiss, and how to kiss girls of different mouth sizes.
It writes: “A kiss can never be absolutely defined. Because
each kiss is different from the one before and the one after. Just as no
two people are alike, so are no two kisses like. For it is people who
make kisses. Real, live people pulsating with life and love and extreme
happiness.”
Obviously just one of the silly things that humans have come up with in the past—when chivalry was probably not yet dead?—
The Art Of Kissing makes one wonder: who knew there was really so much to think about when it comes to kissing?
It does, however, make for an amusing browse.
The Art of Kissing is available on
Amazon.
Check it out below:
“Where the girl’s mouth is of the tiny, rosebud type, then one
need not worry about what to do… However, there are many girls whose
lips are broad and generous, whose lips are on the order of Joan
Crawford’s, for instance. The technique in kissing such lips is
different. For, were one to allow his lips to remain centered, there
would be wide expanses of lips, untouched and, therefore, wasted. In
such cases, instead of remaining adhered to the center of the lips, the
young man should lift up his lips a trifle and begin to travel around
the girl’s lips, stopping a number of times to drop a firm kiss in
passing. When you have made a complete round of the lips, return
immediately to the center bud and feast there. Feast there as did the
lover of Fatimas, in Tennyson’s poem, in which it was written that:
‘Once he drew, with one long kiss, my whole soul through my lips—as
sunlight drinketh dew.’
Then, sip of the honey.
Like a bee that settles on the fragrant pistils of a flower, and
sips in the nectar for honey, so should you sip in the nectar from
between the lips of your love. And it is nectar. For there is in this
mingling a symbol of the holy communion of the spirits of two
soul-mates, joined together in the bonds of an indissoluble love.”
“The lips are not the only part of the mouth which should be
joined in kissing. Every lover is a glutton. He wants everything that is
part of his sweetheart, everything. He doesn’t want to miss a single
iota of her ‘million-pleasured joys’ as Keats once wrote of them. That
is why, when kissing, there should be as many contacts, bodily contacts,
as is possible. Snuggle up closely together. Feel the warm touch of
each other’s bodies. Be so close that the rise and fall of each other’s
bosoms is felt by one another.”
“Here you start off by first opening your mouth a trifle just
after you have been resting peacefully with closed lips. Indicate to
your partner, by brushing her teeth with the tip of your tongue, that
you wish for her to do likewise. The moment she responds, instead of
caressing her mouth, suck inward as though you were trying to draw out
the innards of an orange. If she knows of this kiss variation, your maid
will act in the same way and withdraw the air from your mouth. In this
fashion, in a very short while, the air will have been entirely drawn
out of your mouths. Your lips will adhere so tightly that there will
almost be pain, instead of pleasure. But it will be the sort of pain
that is highly pleasurable. That may sound odd, but nevertheless it is a
fact. Pain becomes so excruciating as to become pleasurable.”
“A very pleasant way to kiss is found in the ‘dancing kiss.’ Here,
again, it is the closeness of the bodies of the participants that adds
to the enjoyment. What more could a pair of lovers ask for than a dimly
lighted dance floor, the tender, rhythmical strains of a waltz being
played by Wayne King, their arms around each other, their eager young
bodies kissing each other in a myriad of excitable places, the while
their cheeks meet in glowing, velvety strokes?”
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