The Health Benefits of Kissing
If there are a lot of fish in the sea, how do you attract the right one? According to a University of Oxford study, kissing helps us find the right partner. And once we’ve hooked him or her, kissing may help us keep him or her around. This study also found that women valued kissing in relationships more than men valued it.
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January 30, 2015