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you can call poets normal \
people, who indulge in the "pain
kiss" and derive intense pleasure from it. Punishment, after all, can be\
more than painful. For instance, in
another poem, a poet says: And if she dared her lips to pout,
Like many pert young misses,
I'd wind my arms her waist about
And punish her with kisses.
Naturally, in the "nip-kiss" the kisser is not supposed to open his mout\
h like the maw of a lion. and then
sink his fangs into the delicate-flesh of the kissee. Ridiculous! The pr\
ocedure is the same as the ordinary
kiss except that, instead of closing your lips with the kiss, you leave \
them slightly. open and, as though
you were going to nibble on a delicious tid-bit, take a playful nip into either the nape of the neck, the
cheek or the lips. just a nip is enough. And the resultant pleasure, I a\
ssure you, will more than
compensate for the slight inconvenience of pain.
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Now there might be some of you who may wonder why such kissing subterfug\
es and substitutes are
necessary. It is only that man is a questing animal. He is never satisfi\
ed with the ordinary and
commonplace because the commonplace, after a time, becomes very boring. \
Not that I mean to infer that
the usual "lip-kiss" is commonplace.. Absolutely not. The "lip-kiss," as\
I have mentioned before, is the
piece de resistance, the main course in the "banquet of love" as the poet, Qvid, called it. \
But imagine a
meal in which there were seven courses of filet mignon or seven courses of lobster. You'd get sick and
tired of a tender filet after the third course, wouldn't you? And after \
the second lobster, you wouldn't be
able to look a lobster in the eye, that is, providing a lobster has eyes\
. So you see why it is that if the
lip-kiss were indulged in exclusively, you would reach a point where it \
would lose all of its rapturous
savor.
VARIATION, KISSES ARE THE SPICE OF LOVE
A variation 6f the "lip-kiss" can be performed very nicely. Instead of p\
ressing the lips together at one
spot, start at one corner of the mouth and brush your closed lips across\
the entire mouth. A variation of
this, in turn, is to part your lips slightly and, with the tip of your t\
ongue in the groove that separates the
two lips, brush your lips from side to side. Naturally, .additional vari\
ations to this last variation suggest
themselves immediately to the aware practitioner of the kiss. In fact, t\
o such a person there should come
up hundreds of other variations to titillate and titivate the senses.
One such variation suggests itself. Technically, it is not exactly a var\
iation but simply a variation in the
technique of the ordinary "lip-kiss." It employs the use of the ".delaye\
d action" in its execution. The old
story of the fox and the grapes which were tantalizingly dangled over hi\
s head is the foundation for the
method. Simply, the procedure is this: just before lowering your lips fo\
r the kiss, instead of planting the
kiss, draw your head back again. Then, hold your lips in readiness but d\
o not-kiss. Hold this position for
as long as possible the while you smile tantalizingly into the eyes of t\
he girl. Finally, when both you and
she can stand the suspense no longer, then lower your lips, Slowly, as s\
lowly as you possibly can, and
imprint the seal of-love onto the avid mouth of your loved one. After th\
at, the technique calls for no
specific action. Kissing, like loving, is instinctive.
ELECTRIC KISSING PARTIES
Some few years ago, a very peculiar kissing custom arose which deserves \
mention here because, from it,
we can learn how to adapt the method to our modem devices. At that time,\
when young people got
together, they held, what was then known as, "electric kissing parties."\
Young people are ever on ' the
outlook for novel ways of entertaining themselves. In fact, when ether w\
as first developed as an
anesthetic, the young bloods of the town used to form "ether-sniffing" p\
arties in which they got a
perfectly squiffy ether "jag." But to return to the "electric kisses." A\
n excerpt from a contemporary writer
will, perhaps, give us some idea of what happened.
"The ladies and gentlemen range themselves about the room. In leap year \
the ladies select a partner, and
together they shuffle about on the carpet until they are charged with el\
ectricity , the lights in the room
having been first turned low. Then they kiss in the dark; and make the s\
parks fly for the amusement of the
onlookers."
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The same sort of experiment could be performed nowadays, on cold, dry ni\
ghts when the air is
overloaded with electricity. But be certain that neither you nor your pa\
rtner touches each other after
shuffling furiously on the carpet with your feet. Merely lean over