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not all.
To every large dinner, there is always added a dessert or a lagniappe wh\
ich is a topping-off tid-bit of the
evening. The same should apply to the "vacuum kiss." The minute you rele\
ase Your lips, lift them' away
from the tired lips of your lover. Then, without wasting a minute's time\
, gently, delicately, softly,
sensitively, oh so lightly, lower your pursed lips and place a tiny litt\
le kiss into the almost bruised lips of
the girl. It is this little act of sympathy and condolence that makes th\
e tie between you all the more firm.
It tells the girl that you know how she feels and that you sympathize wi\
th her.
While resting from the joy-laden ardors of such a kiss, a few more varia\
tions are permissible and
advisable. There should never be a let-down in a kissing session. Every \
moment must be filled with
kisses. But they do not have to be kisses of the mouth. There are other \
kisses which, although they are
not as satisfying as the lip kisses, still serve to keep the blood burni\
ng.
THE "SPIRITUAL" KISS
For instance, there can be kisses exchanged merely in intense glances. A\
sort of "spiritual kiss." can pass
between the adoring eyes of a pair of lovers. The hot blooded Latin race\
s know the power of such kisses.
Their fiery temperaments are ever questing for new delights, for variati\
ons, for delightful and artful ways
of adding to the pleasure of love. There is a poem extant written by a y\
oung Spanish poet to his
sloe-eyed, raven-tressed senorita. No doubt it was sung by him under her\
balcony while the romantic
moon streamed down liquid beams. But the poem quite amply describes this\
point of kissing with things
other than your lips.Then she kisses with her eyelids,
Kisses with her arching eye-brows,
With her soft cheek softly rubbing,
With her chin and hands and fingers,
All the frame of Manuela,
All her blood and all her spirit,
All melt down to burning kisses.
There, Perhaps fifteen feet away from him, was the light of her love. Ye\
t, by means of her eyes, she was
able to kiss him so that their love continued to flower.
THE EYELASH KISS
A variation of this eye kiss can be practiced as a tender diversion. Aft\
er an intense period of "soul or
"vacuum kissing" has been indulged in and both lovers lie back tiredly, \
looking into each other's eyes ,
the-young man should lean over the face of the girl. But, instead of imp\
lanting his lips on hers, he should
bring his cheek into direct contact with her cheek again. Then, when thi\
s is done, he should lower his
eyelash so that they enmesh with the eyelash of his partner. This, of co\
urse, is done one eye at a time.
And when the enmeshing process is complete, each should gently raise and\
lower his or her eyelids. The
contact of the hair of the eyelash is one that is almost indescribable. \
Suffice it to say, it is a charming
bypath in the meadows of love that is pleasant, provocative and yet not \
exhausting.
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THE "PAIN" KISS
A while back, mention was made of the "Pain kiss." It is with this seemi\
ngly paradoxical pleasure that
we shall deal with now. First of all, it is necessary to explain that, a\
lthough an act can be painful, it can
still be pleasurable. The explanation is merely another indication of th\
e variability of human nature. To
begin, there are some people who derive an extreme pleasure out of being\
whipped or burned or beaten.
There is no rational explanation for this strange, delight. The fact rem\
ains that they react pleasurably to
pain. These people are called masochists. Similarly, there are other peo\
ple who derive the same pleasure
out of being the ones who inflict pain or perform the beating. Their abn\
ormality, too, is inexplicable.
They are called sadists.
The point is this: these people have these strange desires in extremes. \
But normal people have similar
desires but they are not so strong. They are present only in minute degr\
ees. That is why some of us
deliberately uncover ourselves in cold weather or continue to pick at a \
sore tooth although the act pains
us. It is for this reason that most of us are able to derive pleasure fr\
om the "pain kiss."
The "pain kiss" is simply a tiny bite, a love nip.
Catullus, who knew his kissing, if we are to judge from the many poems h\
e left on the subject, once rote:Whom wilt thou for thy lover choose?
Whose shall they call thee, false one, whose?
Who shall thy darted kisses sip,
While thy keen love-bites scar his lip?
THE "NIP" KISS
Horace, another Roman, whose kissing proclivities have come down through\
the ages because of his love
poems, also wrote something about the "nip-kiss" when he said:Or on thy lips, the fierce, fond boy
Marks with his teeth the furious joy.
So you see, it is perfectly normal people, if