The earliest written evidence of the prevalence of romantic-sexual kisses dates back to 2500 BC. An article on this by Troels Punk Arbøll was published in Science.
Research often distinguishes between two types of kisses, the friendly-parent kiss and the romantic-sexual kiss. While parent-friendly kissing seems common among people across time and territory, romantic sexual kissing is not culturally universal and dominates stratified societies. At the same time, sexual kissing is found in the closest relatives of humans – pygmy chimpanzees.
The earliest recorded kiss of humanity is found in sources from the ancient Near East. In the earliest Sumerian texts, kissing was described, possibly as a post-sexual activity, in connection with erotic acts and directed to the lips. Akkadian references to kissing can be divided into two groups: the first expresses friendship and family love, the manifestation of submission or respect through kissing the feet or the ground, and the second, an erotic act with the lips.
Given the thousands of cuneiform texts available, there are relatively few examples of romantic sexual kissing. However, there are clear instances where kissing was considered a normal part of romantic intimacy in ancient times. The lyrics imply that kissing is something married couples do, but sometimes kissing was seen as part of an unmarried person’s sexual desire when they are in love. Two texts around 1800 BC e. particularly descriptive. One describes how a married woman is nearly knocked to the ground by another man’s kiss, and the other describes an unmarried woman who vows to abstain from kissing and sexual intercourse with a particular man. It seems that society tried to regulate such acts between unmarried persons or adulterers. Additionally, the sexual aspect of kissing was not welcome in society, and it was believed that kissing a non-interactive person, such as a nun, would deprive the kisser of the ability to speak.
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