French kiss

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For other uses, see French kiss (disambiguation).

Two people french kissing.

A French kiss, tongue kiss, pash or deep kiss is a romantic or sexual kiss in which one participant's tongue touches the other's tongue (or lips) and usually enters his/her mouth.

Although family members may sometimes kiss on the lips, a kiss using the tongue 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. Unlike other forms of "casual" kissing (such as brief kisses of greeting or friendship), episodes of French kissing will often be prolonged, intense, and passionate. It may signal the beginning of a period of "making out" or sexual intercourse. Because of the intimacy associated with it, in many regions of the world tongue kissing in public is not acceptable to most, particularly for an extended time.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} Infectious Mononucleosis (American: Mononucleosis or, colloquially, "mono"; European: Glandular Fever), a disease spread through saliva, is often colloquially referred to as "the kissing disease."

A French Kiss is often used by lovers to express their intimate feeling toward each other and often precedes sexual intercourse (and frequently continues during sex).^{[citation needed]}

French kissing has been traditionally associated with Western societies, but is now becoming quite popular around the world.^{[citation needed]}

According to contemporary Hindu religious beliefs, a French kiss can break a "Fast" since it involves exchange of saliva.

1 Etymology
2 Other names
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Etymology

The term has been attributed to the perception of more liberal views in France towards cunnilingus and oral sex in general (see 69 sex position).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Other names

Another, older name for 'French kissing' is cataglottis, from cata (down), glottis (throat). It is known colloquially as tongue wrestling, tonsil tennis, tonsil hockey.

In French, it is simply embrasser avec la langue (literally kiss with tongue). Nevertheless, in popular language this is referred as rouler une pelle,emballer and more recently pecho.
In the British Isles it has been referred to as snogging. In parts of Northern England it may be called a "meet", also referde to as pulling making out or hooking up, while in many parts of Ireland it is referred to as meeting, shifting or scoring someone.
In South India, the term English kiss is used. Since old south Indian movies didn't show deep kissing, people got the chance to see them only in British films which are rarely released or dubbed in local languages like Tamil or Telugu.
In Mauritius the English population refer to it as "Grabbing".
In Italian, the act is known as "limonare", literally "to lemon".
In the Netherlands, the act is known as "tongzoen" (tonguekiss)
In Quebecois French, it is known as "frencher".
In Spanish, it is known as "morrear" or "rumbear", which may be translated as "muzzling".
Croatian teens call this particular kind of kissing žvaljenje.
In Australia it is most commonly known as "pashing". This term is expected to have originated from the word 'passion', so as to kiss passionately, is to "pash".
During the period of poor relations between the United States and France just prior to the onset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, French kissing was humorously renamed "Freedom Kissing" in a parody of "Freedom Fries".
In Germany it is called "Zungenkuss" (kiss with tongue').