Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
Helen FisherToday, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
Helen FisherAs social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
Helen FisherThere exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
Helen Fisher