Pete Wright

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Outstanding.

Look at us.

Look at us.

We might as well, yeah.

We might as well, yeah.

What do you know when you think about lust, our topic today? What do you think about? How does it hit you? How do you feel when you think about lust?

What do you know when you think about lust, our topic today? What do you think about? How does it hit you? How do you feel when you think about lust?

I've got the negative one first.

I've got the negative one first.

Yeah, for sure. We don't necessarily need to perseverate on that particular angle of the church because you're exactly right. I mean, it's a sin because it... takes away from spiritual purity and attention to the church. But what's really interesting about lust in particular is its association as original sin and its deeply gendered interpretation over sin.

Yeah, for sure. We don't necessarily need to perseverate on that particular angle of the church because you're exactly right. I mean, it's a sin because it... takes away from spiritual purity and attention to the church. But what's really interesting about lust in particular is its association as original sin and its deeply gendered interpretation over sin.