On Kissing From the Metaphysical to The Erotic

by Adrianne Blue

Book Overview

A kiss can be an expression of parental affection or the focus of an erotic experience, a defensive social maneuver or an admission of vulnerability. In legend, a kiss can turn an ugly witch into a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 057505512X
• ISBN13: 9780575055124
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A kiss as powerful as the history behind it.

I loved this book. Adrianne Blue has put more research into everyone's favorite past time that before may have been taken for granted. This looks at the last few thousand years of history, philosophy, and persuits of love all around the world, and put it all into one book. With each chapter, a new idea is persued. The book begins with a quick glance of kissing and intimacy, to modern and past psychology, to the roles between men and women, to poetry through out the ages, and the belief over time of what a kiss really means. My favorite part of the book comes from a chapter 'Body and Soul', and how the two work together to make a kiss have the power that it does. With references to the bible and poets through the ages, shows how many people believe when two people kiss, it is their souls mingling. Food for thought that is nothing but delicious.This is the perfect book for anyone with a love for history, philosophy, and have a persuit of romance in their lives. More research on any one single little thing done so throughly I have ever seen. After reading this book, it always brings just a little more spark to every kiss. Thanks Adrianne Blue!

fascinating and witty on the meaning of a kiss

This is a fascinating,really drole book that tells you everything you always wanted to know about the meaning of a kiss: the quotations from films and fiction alone are worth the price of the book. i really like her theory of how all kisses are related, it is sort of mindblowing. i'll give the paperback to my Valentine.