The importance of kissing

Kissing is also entitled to be scientifically studied by Philematology, a neuroscience dedicated to unravel the mysteries of this habit.

Have you ever reflected on the fact that the passionate kisses do well? When we engage on kissing passionately, we release oxytocin, the hormone responsible for feelings of love and sexual excitement. While the act of kissing last, we continue to release in our body a lot of neurotransmitters and hormones associated with pleasure and well-being such as dopamine or serotonin. Lips and tongue are highly erogenous zones that arouse sexual desire.

Kisses are also responsible for raising our heart rate from 70 to 150 beats per minute, increasing also the oxygenation of the cells. Not to mention the 29 muscles required: 12 of the lips and 17 of the tongue.

Kissing also activates our immune system. The exchange of fluids, contains microbes, therefore, our immune system is forced to fight them. Dutch scientists claim that a passionate kiss for ten seconds, we exchanged about of 80 million microbes.

The importance of the kiss on the union of two partners is much greater than is allocated in reality: kissing can lead us to accept or reject a sexual partner. Choose your lifelong partner can be as simple as a kiss.

But kisses are not only about sex: they are also related to intimacy, with feelings of affection, friendship, kindness and love. Kisses serve to reinforce the strong ties that bind us to friends and family.

The reason why the kiss is associated with a sense of comfort and safety, it comes from the fact that our first experiences as human beings comes from the stimulation of the lips, as with babies on breastfeed, either in the breast or bottle.

To try to unravel the world of Kiss there is the Philematology: a neuro-science that studies the various aspects, and types of Kisses, since its origins to the functions that it plays.