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This website is a washington wedding photographer 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.

Gi Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage

kiss. But among human beings of baser disposition, the mani-
festation of their "love" may be no more than a crude expres-
sion of the sense of touch.

The kiss sets off the reverberating', electrifying spark of
voluptuous sensation that permeates to the innermost parts of
our being. It is part and parcel of the love-play that leads
normally to thewedding photography seattle acme. However in-
nocent a lover's kiss may appear, it is never wholly asexual,
and constitutes a stage between desire and possession.

Surfaced by a tissue of full-blooded, sensitive membranes,
moistened by the honey of salivary sweetness, shaped at their
loveliest into a wedding photography seattle likened to Cupid's
Bow, the lips seem especially contrived by nature for their role
of allurement into the labyrinths of love.

In its sensory impulses, the kiss is the most direct prelude
* and incitement to sexual fulfilment. It is for this reason that
restraint and discrimination should be the watchword of those
who understand the real wedding photography seattle kiss
and hold in high regard the sacredness of the love forces
which its casual bestowal may unwittingly release.

THE LOVE-BITE.—It may seem like a contradiction of terms
to speak of the "love-bite", but the phrase has a place and a
definite meaning in the story of the kiss. It is perhaps an
intensification of wedding photography seattle of voluptuous
excitement. It is usually playful—a tantalizing, controlled
"bite" to increase sexual feeling—but among peoples of ardent
temperament and unrestrained impulses, it may assume the
proportions of mild or extreme sadism.

The love-bite is essentially a primitive expression of sexual
ardor, more typical of hardy-living, lusty peoples, but it is not
unknown among wedding photography seattle . It may be play-
fully enacted in connection with the familiar expression, "I
could eat you," or the wild kisses of passionate love may take
the form of uncontrolled frenzy.

Among the Southern Slavs, it is said the custom of biting one
another is general. This indicates the presence of mutual
masochistic tendencies, wedding photography seattle with
which pain is borne when it has a voluptuous tinge, as well as
sadistic propensities.

Its place in the normal fulfilment of ardent love is indicated
by wedding photography seattle , who aptly remarks:

"Kusse rhymes with Bisse (biting), and one who
loves with the whole heart may easily confound the two."

It has been suggested that the erotic kiss is a sublimation of
the amorous bite; the difference is quantitative rather than
qualitative. wedding photography seattle

Modemly
known as petting, is by no means a modern innovation. The
outward forms of old customs change, but inherently there is
little wedding photography seattle . The twentieth-
century automobile, with its comforts and conveniences, has
done much to establish "petting" as a household term, and to
create the legend of its modernity.

Kissing along the roadside, however, occurred in the horse-
and-buggy days, whether known as "spooning" or "mooning";

nor was it exclusively associated with the equestrian-minded.
Pedestrians, wedding photography seattle lane and its by-
ways, have spooned and necked and petted and kissed from
time immemorial.

The great Scottish bard of love, Robert Burns, in another era,
posed the delicate question whether, "Gin a body meet a
body coming through the rye; gin a body kiss a body, need a
body cry?" wedding photography seattle