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Sealed with a Kiss! How Kissing is Good for Health and Intimacy!

Karen Chambre LCSW, PSY.D ca
4 min readOct 30, 2024

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The Power of a Kiss Can Increase One’s Happiness

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The passion of new love sparks light the fire that heats this new connection with intensity. As couples explore each other’s bodies, sex and passionate kisses are plentiful. Unfortunately, longevity grows, and sexuality and kissing wane. This is a shame because kissing and sexuality are good for your health and keep a couple connected and intimate.

Curiosity about Kissing

Lawson-Tancred(February 13, 2024) notes that researchers have been interested in kissing since 2500 years (BCE). Kissing started because of the transfer of food from mother to infant. Ancient maternal instinct was to chew the few and push it to the babies’ libs so they can digest it. Another ancient theory about kissing began in the times of troglodytes. The theory is based on the need for troglodytes to find a healthy woman to procreate with. The men looked, smelled, and tasted the saliva of a young cavewoman to see if she was healthy and could be an excellent partner to procreate.

The Health Benefits of Passionate Kissing

  1. Kissing can boost pleasurable hormones such as oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin. These hormones contribute to euphoria and…

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Karen Chambre LCSW, PSY.D ca
Karen Chambre LCSW, PSY.D ca

Written by Karen Chambre LCSW, PSY.D ca

As a psychotherapist, it has been a pleasure to help clients overcome their internal and external challenges over the last 40 years.

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