The evolutionary riddle of the kiss
Science Quickly
Scientific American
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:55.8 | There's something about a good kiss that can stick with you, that can give you butterflies even decades later. |
| 0:57.8 | For the past few weeks, we've been asking listeners to share stories with us about their |
| 1:01.1 | most memorable kiss. |
| 1:02.9 | And the minute you asked about the most memorable kiss, I went back to 1980 when I was |
| 1:09.0 | 17 years old. |
| 1:10.3 | That's Carrie from New Orleans. |
| 1:11.6 | And I went on a couple dates with my brother's friend who at the time was a ticket scalper, which was, ooh, taboo back then. |
| 1:18.6 | And he was my brother's friend, which was like a double taboo. |
| 1:21.6 | So I think there might have been a little bad point influence involved, but honestly it was just a very sweet well-timed kiss i mean it wasn't too |
| 1:32.7 | soft it wasn't too mushy it wasn't too hard it wasn't too without getting graphic moist it was just right |
| 1:41.8 | the right amount of time the right amount of time, the right amount of tongue, sorry. And that was a long time ago. |
| 1:49.3 | So it's been in my little brain cells for a little while. And I like to think about it every once in a while. |
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