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This website is a event photography portfolio, but I found this
odd old book called "strange customs of courtship and marriage"
Below is a excerpt from that book. Warning, its strange stuff.

52 Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriageture.

In the realm of personal and family life, the wedding an-
niversary became a favorite occasion, for celebration and merry-
making. Wedding photographers san juan gifts were presented to and
it became a tradition to associate a certain article or material
with the particular anniversary. Following are the customary
wedding anniversaries as they are now generally accepted.

CHAPTER III

Kissing Customs

Paper

Wood

Tin

Silk

Crystal

China

Silver

Ivory

Jade or Coral

Ruby

Sapphire

Gold

Emerald

Diamond

All lists of this kind, of course, are somewhat arbitrary, and
in more recent years they have been considerably augmented
and commercialized. Wedding photographers san juan honored
one, although through popular custom the silver and golden
wedding are celebrated more than any others.

ORIGIN OF THE Kiss.—The contact of the lips in the kiss is an

inspired discovery and development of the Western World.
Strange as it may seem to us of European heritage, the was
unknown in Wedding photographers san juan explorers,
travelers and missionaries carried their customs to the remote
parts of our planet. Even today it is not the preferred form of
intimate expression of love or affectionate greeting among
most peoples in Asia, Africa, the Eskimo domains, Polynesia
and other distant lands where the aboriginal customs still hold

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Authorities tell us that the impulse to is not innate to
man; that it has been developed gradually, and has only ac-
quired by Wedding photographers san juanerotic sphere. Havclock
Ellis regards the love- as a development from the primitive

^-maternal and from the nursing of the infant at the
mother's breast, which arc customary even where the erotic
kiss is unknown. Wedding photographers san juan grew the
of love and affection, of devotion and reverence, that we know
today.

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of the kiss indicates a curious paradox in the pattern of human
actions. Kissing as a manner of showing affection is said to
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| repertoire of caresses. Certainly, the custom cannot be traced

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