Passionate or Platonic? What Your Kiss Could Say About Your Relationship

There was chemistry: intense, yearning, leg-crossing chemistry! We had been talking and laughing effortlessly across a narrow table in a bar for more than two hours. Our hands were almost touching when the talk finally stopped. He leaned in. I leaned in. I closed my eyes, instinctively tilted my head to the right, we kissed... Just then, my right elbow slipped off the table, my body reeled in the same direction, our lips abruptly parted. Only my hand slamming against an adjacent wall saved me from completely sliding off the chair. I was not drunk or suffering from vertigo -- this kiss had actually made me swoon. I know I'm not alone in this feeling of amorous light-headedness (though I'm not sure how common it is to lose balance with it). Since I've been collecting stories about kissing experiences, it's clear that an intense rush, giddiness or even seeing stars is not unusual during an exceptionally passionate kiss. One woman described her most memorable kiss this way: "When I closed my eyes I felt as though I was floating. I saw stars appearing and disappearing in the darkness." But most of these head spinning kisses have something in common and mine was no exception -- according to scientists, romantic kissers are at least twice as likely to tilt their heads to the right (as opposed to the left). Numerous research studies have confirmed this, suggesting around 80 per cent of adult kisses in the Western world are initiated this way. During the last 20 years, a number o...
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