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The history of kissing is more complex than you might think

Kissing is a serious business for Professor Katie Barclay, a native of Lanarkshire working in Australia

The National (Scotland) · Aug 25

‘I’ve been on plenty of dates – but nothing happened’: are we looking at the death of the kiss?

Call it a crisis, call it a decline, call it a recession: the long, lusty snog is in trouble, harder to experience in real life or even watch on screen. But why? And what’s it like to think you may never lock lips with another?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13

The Kiss by Katie Barclay review – on passion, power and puckering up

From Desiderius Erasmus to Luis Rubiales, a cultural history of this most intimate of gestures

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8