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Osculation
"I discovered this wonderful word long after I had been indulging in it's practice."
By Lauri Jean Crowe
Published December 2000

Osculation. “What is it?” you ask as it rolls on your tongue. Osculation. A faint whisper in your ear. Osculation. A point on a curve where two branches have a common tangent but do not reverse direction. Osculation. Is it mathematics or chemistry? Osculation is the act of kissing.

Osculation with many has left me wanting to reverse direction. Too sloppy, too toothy, too much tongue or not enough. Kissing is an art form and so few place emphasis on practice intending inborn talent to do the job. However, as with any art form you need to practice whatever natural talents you have and stretch them to their boundaries until you create new forms of intimate expression of self.

As a young girl I had friends who would osculate with pillows. Practice makes perfect right? These same girls practiced other forms of open mouthed kissing on carrots and other vegetables before moving on to practice with the flesh. You can kiss a pillow, you can kiss a dog, you can even kiss a carrot with feeling but no practice is better than kissing with a partner.

However, kissing is seen as a big taboo. Even some prostitutes will only osculate with special customers, or for an added price. Why is it that the mouth on mouth act of the kiss causes such uproar? I think perhaps it goes back to the time when demons were thought to be able to enter the body through any open orifice. After all, what is more demonic that a woman in an open mouthed-osculation? Kissing is intimate. You breathe through your mouth, you eat with your mouth. You taste with your tongue. So, it is no wonder this activity is so popular and has such an allure about it.

There is nothing like the taste of your lovers tongue on yours; the sweet moisture atop a wetted lip; the sensation of a tongue exploring the inner regions of the orifice between your chin and nose. Osculation can take place anywhere. I’m speaking in terms of location on the body and location in space and time. You can kiss your lover in bed each morning, or sneak a quick peck between your husband hammering nails and making dinner. You can kiss eyes, ears, toes, fingers, labia, penis, bellies, and yes, you can even “kiss my ass” as the slang goes.

The possibilities for osculation are endless. Osculation – think about it. A point on a curve where two branches have a common tangent but do not reverse direction. Osculation. A kiss. Roll it around on your tongue for a while.

Writer:
Lauri Jean Crowe is a freelance writer known for such diverse topics as dreams, sexuality, gardening, health and parenting. She is a freelance writer, artist and designer living in Michigan, USA. Lauri Jean welcomes feedback at vu-writer@earthlink.net and is seeking serious individuals who wish to be interviewed about all aspects of sexuality.

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