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If you lean in for a kiss on the left you may be in the minority. A new study from an international team of psychologists and neuroscientists suggest that humans are hardwired to favour leaning to the right while kissing romantic partners, which may have wider implications for neuroscience and cognitive sciences.
Building on previous work from Western countries, a new academic paper just published in the journal Scientific Reports, is the first to investigate an inherent bias for turning the head to one side while people kiss in a non-Western context, in Bangladesh, where romantic kissing is not typically observed in public. It is also the first study in the world to show that the kiss recipients have a tendency to match their partners' head-leaning direction.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-humans-hardwired-world.html
Journal Reference: A. K. M. Rezaul Karim et al. The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing, Scientific Reports (2017). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04942-9
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @10:56PM
For the first time I opened my eyes and looked at Cal. He noticed and smiled at me. I did not feel strange lying there with him. He was like an old friend.
"For now, I shall give you something very special. It is a rare thing among us and not given lightly. You will learn its significance as time goes on. I'm doing it because you fascinate me. Because there's something important inside you. I don't know what it is yet. But I know it was no accident I found you." He leant on his elbow, over me. "This is called the Sharing of Breath. It is sacred and powerful."
I was nearly sick with fright as his face loomed above me, satanic with shadows. I closed my eyes and felt his breath upon me. I expected a vast vampiric drain on my lungs, pain of some kind. I felt his lips, dry and firm, touch my own. His tongue like a thread of fire touched my teeth. He called it a sharing of breath. My arms curled around his back, which was hardened with stress and muscle. He called it a sharing of breath. Where I came from, we called it a kiss.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @10:59PM (2 children)
In other news, non-nose-breaking behavior is favored when going romantic. At 11.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:03PM (1 child)
Except for Eskimos.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:35PM
Bumping noses is very romantic when you live in a place that is so cold you could freeze your tongues together with a traditional [to the rest of the world] kiss.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:13PM (1 child)
Lies, this is clearly a social construct made up by the Patriarchy [youtube.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:15PM
In their next paper, scientists will be telling the woman or femme or bottom which foot to raise while kissing.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:29PM (2 children)
I misread it as, "Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Order". That would mean that if I kissed Putin, I'd vote for Trump. And if Trump kissed Putin ... never mind, I won't go there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:34PM
Leaning depends upon wealth. Poor lean left for free handouts. Rich lean right for tax cuts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:44PM
The World Order is a Leftist (collectivist) organization thou.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 17 2017, @11:33PM (3 children)
This has to be a blow to the left SJW, the natural order of this world is right conservative leaning.
(large trollish grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @11:38PM
The left are kissless virgins who watch Star Trek in Morn's basement and fantasize about dating dabo girls.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:00AM (1 child)
If you lean to the right, it seems like the whole world leans to the left. And vice versa.
Just ask Fox News.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:56PM
It doesn't seem like it -- that is what Fox tells their audiences.
Of course, there are many weird far left and far right websites that voice strange theories and ideas that would otherwise be reduced to requiring a loopmanics publication to get into print, had the internet not allowed for the weird to voice their thoughts so effectively.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:02AM
Then I go for a number between 68 and 70 for a few hours.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Snotnose on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:04AM (8 children)
my groin into her groin. If that doesn't work I lean whichever way keeps her nose out of the way of my tongue.
/ not really.
// I'm 59 with an ex and 2 kids, this stuff doesn't happen anymore
/// I try to lean into her kitchen nowdays to see if she's a better cook than I am
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:54AM (2 children)
Are your daughters hot?
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:12AM (1 child)
/ but yes, yes she is
// why do you ask?
/// keep in mind, my daughter could look like Jabba the Hut and I'd say she's hot
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:43AM
Careful. You're getting into Trumpian territory there.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:02AM (4 children)
I am the same age. I have sex with the missus, quite frequently. It helps to have retired early. Afternoon sex is best sex.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @07:35AM (3 children)
i'm 35 with two small children. I hate you profoundly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @11:51AM (2 children)
I am 40 with no sex life no kids living with a very cold fish thinking of just ending it from sexual frustration
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @12:47PM (1 child)
Now guys, he didn't say she enjoyed it, or welcomed it. It could be a shipping container type scenario.
Upper 30s with a tiny kid, sex infrequent because kid and work and housework take up all our times. But we would love to do it more often, so we get #2 going.
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Tuesday July 18 2017, @11:51PM
My kids are both grown and long since moved out.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."