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Study reveals link between income inequality and French kissing:
Income inequality may be linked to how often people French kiss, according to a worldwide study by Abertay University.
The cross-cultural research involved 2,300 participants from 13 different countries across six continents.
Respondents answered a range of questions including how often they French kissed their partner, and how important they thought kissing was.
Their study revealed that people who lived in less equal nations said they kissed their partners more often.
This correlation did not extend to other forms of intimacy such as hugging and sexual intercourse.
[...] Lead researcher Dr. Christopher Watkins, from Abertay's Division of Psychology, said: "The results of this research suggest that the environment we live in is related to differences in this particular form of romantic intimacy.
"French kissing has been shown by others to be related to the quality of a romantic relationship, and our data suggests that we do this more in environments where we have less to fall back on, where a gesture which shows commitment to a relationship would be of greater value.
"Another interesting factor is that, across the nations surveyed, kissing was considered more important at the established phase of a relationship compared to the initial stages of romantic attraction."
The study also found differences in opinions between men and women on the importance of kissing, and about what makes a good kiss.
More information:
Christopher D. Watkins et al. National income inequality predicts cultural variation in mouth to mouth kissing, Scientific Reports (2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43267-7
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @06:46PM (5 children)
Iranian theocracy would be superior to social science on that front...
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02 2020, @07:44PM (4 children)
You could spend a lifetime studying the stupidity of Muslims and you'd only scratch the surface.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday March 02 2020, @08:01PM (3 children)
Spot on. However, the same applies to Christians. And Hindus. Etc.
Of course, it doesn't apply to all of the practitioners of any of these branches of abject superstition (or others unmentioned) — but definitely a lot of them. The smart ones are just manipulating the rest of them with bullshit, that's all.
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Reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @12:39AM (2 children)
Don't forget atheists. Somewhere in the last 20 years positive atheism has turned into a haven for fascists. As an atheist it was a real blow to realize that atheism doesn't prevent people from being idiots, they just find some other ideology to convince themselves of their superiority and justify shitting on the weak.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @01:02AM
How can you sleep at night knowing that at any moment, a factsist could crawl out from under your bed and rape your exposed bunghole? Who will prevent this anal atrocity?
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday March 03 2020, @05:48PM
All atheism is, is a lack of belief in a god or gods. You can add all manner of stuff to that, but that's all just that: extra stuff — atheism itself is absolutely simplistic.
There's no reason to think atheism lands particularly on smart folk or fools; in fact, it's the default state when one is born, or otherwise hasn't been manipulated into the various mythologies. Lack of belief. Not too exciting, really. So it is a state that literally anyone can be in.
The only smart/stupid issue is that atheism, in and of itself, is not a stupid position in terms of actually facing reality vs. abject superstition when the individual's atheism consists of a chosen position.
However, religion is exactly that:
When religion is actually taken as a belief, it is, in fact, not smart at all. It's a form of denying reality.
When it's just a mechanism for taking advantage of, and wielding power over, others, then the argument can be made that it is smart in the sense that it can enormously benefit the proselytizers of same.
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"You the bomb."
"No, you the bomb."
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A compliment in the USA.
An argument in the middle east.