Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. "First kiss beliefs" include idealized beliefs that your first kiss with a new ...

Kissing feels instinctive and intimate, yet scientists now argue it is a surprisingly recent and uneven addition to human behavior. Instead of a single romantic origin story, the evidence points to a ...

Intimate kissing (think lip-to-lip contact between two individuals in a sexual context) is typically the first partnered sexual behavior you experience. It's also the most common and the most frequent ...