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Then, on the other hand, used kissing for a different purpose. Research from Oxford University found that men prefer wetter kisses, more saliva transfer, more contact. Because testosterone is present in saliva, and men were, consciously or not, trying to influence their partner's mood, so she's evaluating. He's persuading. And they both think they're just being romantic. Now, let's talk about the cultures that don't kiss. For a long time, scientists assumed kissing was universal. It isn't. 2015 study published in American anthropologist found that less than half of all cultures kiss romantically. Several tribes in Africa, South America, and parts of Asia considered mouth-to-mouth contact strange. Even disgusting. Once arrived and kissed in front of indigenous groups, reaction was often confusion, sometimes nausea, which means kissing isn't instinct. It's a learned behavior that spread, like most things, through contact, trade routes, conquest, migration. The Romans were enthusiastic kissers, and they built roads across three continents. And then there's the nose kiss. The Eskimo kiss, which is actually called a Kunik, isn't a lesser version of kissing. It's older. Anthropologists believe pressing faces and noses together to smell someone is the original intimacy. You can learn everything about a person from their scent, their stress levels, their diet, their health. Smelling someone's skin is one of the most ancient forms of reading another human being. The lip kiss just came later. So here's the answer, kissing started as feeding. It became a biological test, turned into a tool of influence, traveled the world through empire and trade. Every kiss carries six million years of evolution. Bacterial negotiation happening at speeds your conscious mind can't track. You thought you were just being romantic. Turns out, your lips have been doing serious work this whole time.