Pandemic restrictions have likely affected how teenagers in Japan express themselves sexually, say experts In many countries it's a teenage rite of passage: a first kiss. But a new survey of ...

The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans across civilisations and societies have shown affection, intimacy, or social bonding, most often in a way that is regulated by cultural conventions.

Putellas, followed by many others, posted 'se acabo' after Spain's World Cup triumph in 2023 was overshadowed by Luis Rubiales, the country's football federation president, planting a kiss on the ...

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“The evolution of kissing is best understood through the biology and behavior of great apes, who offer living proxies of human’s hominid ancestors,” Lameira says. “Among terrestrial ...

Nobody knows when kissing emerged among humans. But the practice of plopping one's mouth on another human, whether in friendship or love, is not universal; which suggests culture, rather than instinct ...

Happy Halloween! Here are some of my favorite stories about Halloween at work that you shared earlier this week that didn’t make it into my column for Slate on Monday. At Old Job, the position that I ...

It’s not like Natty to be emotional. The 22-year-old Thai singer and dancer in K-pop group Kiss of Life is many things — bright, charismatic, resilient — but rarely does she let her feelings ...