The Playboy Advisor

July, 1972

While kissing my girl the other night, I began to wonder how this very pleasant custom started. Can you enlighten me?--S. A., Lincoln, Nebraska.One authority asserts kissing may have started when primitive man, believing his exhaled breath had magical powers, kissed his mate so that their souls would mingle. A less romantic theory has it that early woman may have fed her children by premasticating food and transferring it to the infant by way of a "kiss." In any event, the modern form...