French kiss
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A French kiss (or tongue kiss) is a romantic or sexual kiss in which one participant's tongue touches the other's lips or tongue and may enter their mouth.
While family members may sometimes kiss on the lips, a tongue kiss almost always indicates a romantic or sexual relationship. French kissing stimulates the lips, tongue and mouth, which are all areas very sensitive to touch. It is considered by many to be both very pleasurable and highly intimate.
In a tongue kiss participants may exchange saliva, which would often be considered disgusting in other contexts, but which may add to the passion and excitement of the sexual kiss. Although most sexually-transmitted diseases are not transmitted by kissing, the exchange of saliva in a French kiss may increase the chances of catching an orally transmitted disease.
French kissing is commonly used in movies to show willing sex between lovers. It is often used by lovers to express their intimate feeling toward each other and more often precedes sex.
French kissing is sometimes referred to in literature as a soul kiss or a columbine kiss (columbine meaning like doves). It is known colloquially as tongue wrestling, tonsil hockey and, in the United Kingdom, snogging. Sometimes called doing a Frankie in parts of Northern England. French kissing has been traditionally associated with Western societies, but is now becoming quite popular around the world.
The term has been attributed to the French's more open views on cunnilingus and oral sex in general (see soixante-neuf/sixty-nine), as the two acts are similar. The French themselves say that they kiss on the mouth, or rouler une pelle ("rolling a shovel"), but it is profane language. Unlike other English terms using the adjective "French", the expression has been borrowed into French slang as the verb frencher. As a bit of humor, French kissing was euphemized as "Freedom Kissing" in a parody of Freedom Fries during the period of poor relationships between the United States and France just prior to the onset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Maraichinage
A possible predecessor of the term tongue kiss is the Maraichinage, popularised by the residents of Pays de Mont in Brittany: the Maraichins. A maraichinage often lasted for several hours, and involved a profound exploration of the mouth of one's partner.
References in culture
- French Kiss is a 1995 movie starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline.
- Deep Kiss is a series of Japanese pornographic lesbian movies, dedicated entirely to French kissing.lt:Prancūziškasis bučinys
