We used this definition to trawl published scientific papers, searching for observations of kissing in the group of monkeys ...

When my 3-year-old is in a good mood, she asks for a “true love kiss.” She first heard the phrase during a family viewing of Shrek, but it has since become her signal that she is craving affection.

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Kissing did not begin with star-crossed human lovers but with the primate ancestors of ...

I spent Christmas with my daughter and son-in-law, and their seven-year-old daughter. During that time I noticed that my grandchild and her dad hugged and kissed a lot, much more than you would expect ...

Intimate kissing (think lip-to-lip contact between two individuals in a sexual context) is typically the first partnered sexual behavior you experience. It's also the most common and the most frequent ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Like so many others, I have a mother-in-law whom I can only tolerate for short periods of time. For context, my significant other and I live together and are basically married, ...