Sheril is asking for pictures to serve as illustrations for her upcoming Kissing Book:
Have you ever taken a picture of bears nuzzling in the field or kissing fish? How about a provocative pair of human subjects? (With their permission!) Are you interested in having an image credited to you in a science book debuting next Fall? If you're a photographer with interesting pictures of kissing and cuddling [no higher than PG-13 content please], email me before September 14 at srkirshenbaum@yahoo.com.
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On account of Valentine's Day being right around the corner, and inspired by Sheril's almost-through-the-edits book on the science of kissing, I thought I'd ask the Free-Ride offspring (now 8.5 and 10.5 years old) whether they had any
Valentine’s Day is coming up, so it is time to think about kissing. Pursuant to this, Sheril Kirshenbaum, author of “The Science of Kissing,” has made the Kindle version of her excellent book available at a discounted price through February 18th.
The authors of a new paper note that "one of the principal ways in which we interact using our faces is kissing." This reminds me of an old National Lampoon joke on how the French were famous for inventing sex acts with the face. But I digress.
Do kissing dogs count? my little blue healer always gnaws on her big brother's lips. Big brother is a yellow lab.
There is also a great Tom Mangelsen Photo of two polar bears singing to each other and they look like they are about to kiss.
He even has one called "Polar Kiss" might be a little expensive to get the rights to one of those though. I'll see what I can do. I just acquired a new camera and tripod and am itching to use it.
just looked it up the Mangelsen Photo I was thinking of is titled "wind song" my brother has a huge print in his living room - AWESOME