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Exploring when it’s not just a kiss

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EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN/METRO

Brooklyn students Karl Jude Lim, 17, and Celyn Anne Ogilvie, 17, share a kiss for Metro in Nolita Tuesday.

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Cinema's First Kiss
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This "racy" scene is from the New York play, "The Widow Jones," starring May Irwin and John Rice. According to Thomas Edison film historian C. Musser, the actors staged their kiss for the camera at the request of the New York World newspaper, and the resulting film was the most popular Edison Vitascope film in 1896.

“I hope New Yorkers aren’t forgetting to kiss. It’s so important for long-term relationships. ... It’s the ultimate way to express yourself.” SHERIL KIRSHENBAUM, AUTHOR
Published: January 12, 2011 6:57 p.m.
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Psychologists say that 66 percent of women will end a budding relationship if the first kiss goes awry, while only 59 percent of men place the same emphasis.

So what, exactly, is in a kiss?

This is the subject of Sheril Kirshenbaum’s new book, “The Science of Kissing.” In it, the native New Yorker explores everything that goes on between our lips — from the hormones to the history.

“Kissing is a powerful experience,” said Kirshenbaum. “It engages all the senses: Scent, taste and touch are all sending information to our bodies as to whether it’s a good match or not. It’s nature’s ultimate litmus test.”

Sara Forbes, curator of the Museum of Sex in Manhattan, told Metro: “A kiss is something deep.

It’s the beginning of the sexual self.”

New Yorkers, however, don’t quite understand the impact of a kiss.

“People are in a hurry in every aspect of their life,” said psychotherapist Jon­athan Alpert. “Based on my practice, romance and intimacy is often lost; the art of foreplay is skipped over. Kissing, in many ways, is more intimate than sex.”

By the numbers

14% of women would have sex with someone they had not kissed

36% of men will kiss a  prostitute’s body

66% of people tilt their head to the right when kissing

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