Pete Wright

There is a technical word for this.

It's called a cataglottism. Oh, God, that's why I don't know. I know. That's so sexy. Anything with glot. Oh, God, it makes you lust all over the place just hearing cataglotism.

So this was really interesting. So it's, you know, of course it would be France that would come up with this idea to kind of brand a cataglottism as a French kiss. Right. Because it's the French that are so lusty and they're the ones who say, Hey, look at that sexy mouth. I want to put my tongue in there. Right. Like that's of course, but of course that's also not true.

So when you think about, uh, kissing, uh, it comes from the Americans and the Brits. During the war, French kissing was branded after World War One when Americans and Brits went into France and discovered what they would call a more sexually adventurous people. OK, the French.

Yeah. Yeah. And so there are scholars that actually there are kissing scholars.

that's that's a thing and they believe that kissing with tongues uh was actually practiced in ancient cultures because come on you've got two mouths eventually you're going to figure out how to put them together and um india and china and japan document tongue kissing ancient rome kissing with tongues was seen as a sign of affection among lovers and family members um yeah you're gonna be thinking you're gonna be thinking about that for a while i think yeah um

We wrote the history, so we blame it on somebody. You know what? They can have it. It's a title of honor. Good for them. They figured out something great. Sure. What was interesting to me is that there are some real – this is my American slash French kissing bias. I like to kiss. I really do. I'm a real kisser.

You should not just kiss the alphabet is what you're saying. I'm sure I heard that somewhere.

how do you kiss when it's not french kissing was it just well like weirdos we were well we were very prudish very prudish and and um and eventually we figured out hey it can get more popular and more fun than that um but it was also it's also this cultural thing like so when you look at the variety of different cultures appreciation of kissing for example like in spite of the kama sutra

India's legacy of kissing is that you don't kiss in public. You're only permitted to kiss after marriage. And then all the Kama Sutra hijinks kick in, I guess. I don't know, but it feels very much like- So it goes from zero to a hundred. To a hundred. Yeah, right. Japanese people, culturally, apparently, Kissing is it's a big kissing culture, but kissing is is directly tied to to sexual foreplay.

So they don't kiss in public because that means they're going to start having sex.

No. Right. Right.

Right. On the other hand, the Germans and Austrians have embraced a much more public kissing culture. In fact, they are measured as having the longest average kisses in measured in seconds of an average of 12 seconds. The average German's public romantic kiss is 12 seconds. That's my deep, deep research.

The Mexicans love to kiss so much that they actually are in the Guinness Book of World Records for having a kissing marathon on Valentine's Day in 2009. Okay. That also checks out.

All the time. All across South and Central America, it is much less of a kissing culture the further south you go and to the point where people don't kiss at all and they see kissing as like a weirdly reviled kind of a thing. Why would you put your mouth on there? And then there's one last kind of kiss, the socialist fraternal kiss. Have you heard of this? No. Okay.

This kiss was exchanged between leaders of communist countries during the Cold War, and it involved a series of three kisses on alternate cheeks. And in some cases, when ideological connection ran particularly deep. Those kisses went straight for the mouth. So you'd get like Brezhnev and Marx kissing. I don't know if they ever kissed.

That's very well known. But this was mouth kisses, the socialist fraternal kiss. And it was a demonstration of ideological lock. Like this is how close we are as countries and nations.

Outstanding.

Look at us.

We might as well, yeah.