{"id":6008,"date":"2010-09-28T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T17:49:12","slug":"kissing-its-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/kissing-its-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissing: It&#8217;s Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6023\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6023 \" title=\"kissing\" src=\"http:\/\/bcu2-shared.onlinebootycall.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kissing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"336\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">img @ caylawonderful.flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes I think we take the joy of kissing for granted. Like straight sexin&#8217;, it takes talent, and there are many around who somehow made it to adulthood and still have not yet figured it out. At the same time, though, we&#8217;ve always wondered&#8230; exactly what purpose does kissing hold? Sure it&#8217;s fun, and at 16 you can pretty much do it for hours on end, but for most of us adults it just gives us a hearty dose of blue&#8230; well, you know. Parts.<\/p>\n<p>So it was interesting to find out that kissing actually DOES serve a biological purpose! According to a study by Colin Hendrie from the University of Leeds, kissing is actually a way for the male to dose the female with his germs, so that if she gives birth to a child, the child will be immune to any germs from the father. Or, in more science-y terms,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cFemale inoculation with a specific male\u2019s cytomegalovirus is most  efficiently achieved through mouth-to-mouth contact and saliva exchange,  particularly where the flow of saliva is from the male to the typically  shorter female.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, yeah. Incol-awhatever and cyto-somethings. Whatever the disgusting science behind it, it&#8217;s interesting to know that kissing actually serves some strange biological purpose: to make super-immune babies.<\/p>\n<p>[Note: this does not negate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/booty-call-commandments\" target=\"_blank\">Commandment V<\/a>: if you ain&#8217;t makin&#8217; babies, keep your saliva to yourself. Yuck.]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1224249\/The-unromantic-truth-kiss--spread-germs.html\" target=\"_blank\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6008\" data-postid=\"6008\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6008 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think we take the joy of kissing for granted. Like straight sexin&#8217;, it takes talent, and there are many around who somehow made it to adulthood and still have not yet figured it out. At the same time, though, we&#8217;ve always wondered&#8230; exactly what purpose does kissing hold? Sure it&#8217;s fun, and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,1778,941,2012,3726,3727],"class_list":["post-6008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-and-sex","tag-commandments","tag-hook-ups","tag-kissing","tag-science","tag-spreading-germs","tag-weird-booty-calls","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6026,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions\/6026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}