10 Interesting Kissing Customs Around The World

Kissing is said to be an integral part of humanity and every culture is coming with their unique twist towards this act. So today we’ll discuss about some customs involving kissing around globe, so let’s start.

So here are those 10 interesting kissing customs around the world that you didn’t know till now!

10. Kissing bench of the Syracuse University

There is a particular spot in this University in Central New York and it is said that anyone can come and sit on this bench and kiss anyone to get a lifetime happiness or else sit on it alone to get lifetime loneliness. This act or curse doesn’t affect males but they do affect females.

9. The Blarney stone

It is said that the builder of the Blarney Castle once saved a witch from drowning and in return of saving her life she revealed to the builder that if someone kisses the Blarney stone, he or she would get the gift of gab or you can say some special skills regarding communication and flattery.

8. Faire La Bise

In France there is a tradition called Faire La Bise and in it the citizen of France kiss each other as a form greeting. To strangers they only touch the cheek and make a sound like kissing and to the known ones they can kiss on the cheek.

7. The kissing of the bricks

In the year 1996, which was NASCAR’s second year at the racing tracks, Dale Jarret( the driver ) and his crew decided to make a custom of their own. So they kissed a row of bricks which was from the starting line to the ending point, from then it became a tradition.

6. Kissing pope’s ring

Kissing the Pope’s ring is a tradition as he is seen as the representative of Catholic Church’s head and also of Jesus Christ. And Kissing Pope’s ring shows a sign of respect towards him.

5. The kissing post

On the Ellis Island, the immigration gateway into the United States was the busiest from 1892 to 1954, so the nondescript column over there was named as the kissing post and in it new immigrants were supposed to reunite with their families. It was behind a partition and relatives or friends waited for them to get cleared and once it got cleared the relatives or friends were brought in and the two groups actually used to see each other in it and then join each other. It was named as the kissing post as a number of kisses were getting witnessed in it. and symbolizes reunion of love and freedom now.

4. Wedding traditions

Every culture has a custom to kiss each other of their wedding day and this custom was actually started by the Romans. Exchanging kiss between the bride and groom has now become very common in weddings.

3. Full moon on the quad

This tradition started back in the 19th century in the Stanford University when a senior class man could kiss a woman of the freshmen batch. Since then this tradition is being continued.

2. A trobriand islands kiss

Their kissing custom is quite weird as it starts off by sitting in a squat position and landing kisses on the partner by hugging him in that position. Then he start rubbing their tongues and body and then they start biting each other’s lips and sometimes they bite so heard that blood starts to draw. Then after that they start biting each other’s eyelashes…. WEIRD!

1. Bali’s Omed-Omedan festival

This festival is held every year and in it teenagers gather on the main road and say a prayer, after that they dance, hug and kiss each other while others spray water on the teenagers while they’re on action.