It seems like kissing is a lost art. In our hyper sexualized world where sex is consumed like fast food, there is little time for kissing or even foreplay. Certainly, the pandemic hasn’t helped to promote it but it’s been a trend for some time.
Sex it seems, has become transactional and much more about organ stimulation and the fleeting relief than a celebration and exchange of energy and pleasure. If porn is any indication, we are far away from the 70’s where sex was depicted as integral part of life, in some semblance of story but we’d see people kissing. Not so much anymore. We cut to the chase and show only the “important” parts and bits.
I’d argue the most important part is what happens before and after sex. The flirting, the seductive dance, the anticipation, the foreplay and the after play. I’m not sure how much of that still exists today.
Kissing is the most erotic and intimate thing to do between two human beings. You get to stare into each other’s eyes, exchange fluid and breath and oftentimes in doing so, your hearts are beating against each other. It’s the ultimate connection. The view is different from there, you see your partner in a whole new way. You can’t hide anymore, you are fully exposed. You feel each other’s souls and you either like what you see or you don’t and at that moment, everything else about them is irrelevant.
