Kissing is great — and I want more

A FEW weeks back a Sunday paper printed the top 10 kisses of all time.

Ranging from scenes in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to “The Rainbow” by D.H. Lawrence, they were all remarkable in their own way and it got me thinking — what is it about touching lips with someone that feels so special?

At weddings it is the moment when you hear whoops and hollers from the congregation.

I was at a wedding recently and when the bride and groom finally kissed after being given the names “Husband” and “Wife,” they held each other tight and pressed their faces together.

After we’d finished a’whoopin and a’hollerin I wondered which type of kisses are acceptable in church.

The bride in virginal white, the groom trussed up like a turkey, is it favourable for pecks on the cheek or open mouths and tongues darting in and out?

I feel like I should say the former but then surely we should be allowed to do it any which way we please.

If the couple are a passionate pair and want to get down and dirty at the altar, well they’ve paid for the day so we should let them.

Everyone remembers their first kiss be it bad or good and we most definitely remember the worst. South of France ’87 for me.

Kissing is a skill that needs honing like any other and yet as a relationship develops it is generally the first thing to go. Why is it that when we grow to love someone more we kiss them less? It is fundamental to a relationship isn’t it?

I mean, if the man you quite fancy is awful at kissing on that crucial first date, and bearing in mind that my “awful” will be another woman’s “amazing”, you would stop the whole thing then and there, surely?

However, there is nothing more exciting than the first kiss on a first date. Will it be amazing or just plain awful?

Me? I love kissing. Him and me kiss a lot and when we do I always think I’d like to do it more. I shall tell him next time. If I don’t tell him he won’t know I want more of it.

Kiss me while I’m washing up or kiss me while I’m watching “Finding Nemo” with the little one. Now that would definitely be in my top 10.