First kiss can make or break a couple’s relationship

[Pooeypants]

The first kiss can make or break a couple’s relationship, suggests a new study. A kiss may contain potentially important information about your kissing partner, says George Gallup at the State University of New York, Albany, US. He surveyed 1041 students on their attitudes to kissing (Evolutionary Psychology, vol 5, p 612). Some views verged on the predictable: women, for example, placed more emotional importance on a kiss, valuing kisses during and after sex, and throughout a relationship.

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Any truth to this, folks?

[Jern_Sandyer]

First hand hand experience, yes.

[Praxius]

The very first kiss? Not unless you're superficial.

It's not the first of anything that I judge someone on, but rather the repeated pattern in which I see in a short period of study time.

The very first date could goto hell, the person you are dating could suck horribly at kissing, all due to nervousness/jitters, etc.

Many people like to play it safe on the first date, where they want to know where the other person's tollerances are.

Now to be silly and attempt to base your entire future of the relationship based on the very first kiss by the two of you.... that's a lot of faith to hold into something like that and these scientists, like usual in their limited processing understanding, have thrown way too much faith into something with very little foundation:

But Gallup says the first kiss a couple share could make or break the relationship. In a separate survey within the study, 59% of men and 66% of women reported on occasion finding themselves attracted to someone, only to lose interest after kissing them for the first time.

That alone is pretty sad. Although I am pretty aware that many partners determine someone's interest in them based on the ammount of passion in their kiss towards them, there are too many factors in that one situation that come into play that you can't determine that a bad kiss means they really don't care about you.

"The complicated exchange of information that occurs during a kiss may inform evolved, unconscious mechanisms about instances of possible genetic incompatibility," Gallup says.

"May inform evolved, unconscious mechanisms about instances of possible genetic incompatibility?" ~ In other words, they know something is going on, they just don't have a friggin clue as to what, so they dub it like this.

Unconscious Mechanisms? WTF is that exactly? Nothing, actually, since it means nothing. Just another attempt to throw out something to make the audience biased towards the researcher's unfounded interpretation.

Could it also be that perhaps most of society have had this superstition of first kisses and first dates imposed on them for most of their lives, from their parents, friends, etc?

I don't disagree that the majority on this report has reported as they did.... but there is no logical explination that stands out from any other as to why?

You could have had a crappy date and/or first kiss, but how do you know that if you dump this person based on the above, that you may actually be passing up the person you have been searching for all along?

Judging your entire future on a kiss would explain the amount of divorces in the world, because you gotta put a lot more into play in understanding of your future together, besides a friggin kiss.

[Madeline]

It depends....

[Suburbanite]

I dont really think of one type of kissing as better or worse than another, its all situational... and most first kisses are nervous. i think its bs.