Do kissing helps People to Choose Partners
New research on kissing reveals that the kissing helps
people to choose their partners.
Kissing: Its Vital Role in Choosing and Keeping Partners
Two new studies of kissing have found that apart from being
sexy, kissing also helps people choose partners–and keep them.
In a survey, women in particular rated kissing as important,
but more promiscuous members of both sexes rated kissing has a very important
way of testing out a new mate (Wlodarski & Dunbar, 2013).
One of the study’s authors Professor Robin Dunbar explained
that kissing may help solve the ‘Jane Austen’ problem:
“In choosing partners, we have to deal with the ‘Jane Austen
problem’: How long do you wait for Mr Darcy to come along when you can’t wait
forever and there may be lots of women waiting just for him? At what point do
you have to compromise for the curate? …[and] kissing plays a role in assessing
a potential partner.”
But kissing isn’t just important at the start of a
relationship; it also has a role in maintaining a relationship.
The researchers found a correlation between the amount of
kissing that long-term partners did and the quality of their relationship. This
link wasn’t seen between more sex and improved relationship satisfaction.
In a second study, the researchers looked at the link
between women’s menstrual cycle and the importance of kissing (Wlodarski &
Dunbar, 2013).
What they found was that when relationships were young,
kissing was most important at the most fertile stage of women’s cycles. This
suggests kissing could be a way of assessing a potential partner’s genes.
Source: http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/10/kissing-its-vital-role-in-choosing-and-keeping-partners.php
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