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FIRST KISS

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What I Learned From My First Kiss

A Christian writer learns about life and love from his first kiss.

We kissed for the first time after a techno party. I had covered my face in an invisible paint that glowed under a black light, and after all the guests left, the paint slowly covered her lips and face. I thought kissing was like licking an ice-cream cone, which is probably why she kept laughing as she taught me what to do, and a lot of what not to do, with my awkward tongue and teeth and lips. At sunrise I walked Jess home, grateful and covered in glow paint, surprised by how different she looked outside the thrill of the ultraviolet light.

First Kiss Bliss !

First Kiss Bliss !

It’s all about the first kiss! Kissing is the gateway to intimacy. And the first kiss is a window into what intimacy could be like…

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What Does A Kiss Mean? 9 Kisses Decoded

A kiss can mean so many things; our field guide decodes the most important lip locks.

There are many different ways to kiss your lover, and all of them can communicate a different sentiment. Here is a field guide to the major types of kisses and what each of them conveys.

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Patrick Dempsey's Best Love Advice

Grey's Anatomy's Patrick Dempsey gets intimate about his love history and shares his best advice.

Six seasons into Grey's Anatomy and Patrick Dempsey—aka Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd—still makes fans' hearts skip a little as he performs brain surgery within the walls of the show's Seattle Grace Hospital. The actor, 44, dons a dashing doctor's coat again in the movie Valentine's Day, a comic homage to amore that stars an ensemble cast, including Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway. Without the stethoscope, though, McDreamy is more McDude, a family man (he and his wife, makeup artist Jillian Dempsey, have a daughter, Talula, eight, and three-year-old twin sons, Darby and Sullivan) with a low-key approach to romance and a serious passion for … auto racing? Luckily, that's only one of the things that rev his engine. Here, he confides a few more.

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Obama Girls Dating? Not Without Secret Service

President Obama discusses what teenage life will be like for Malia and Sasha in the White House.

Dating is hard for teenage girls. Dealing with overprotective parents, boys who only want one thing and burgeoning sexual desires can prove difficult. Now imagine that your father is president. There's a big upside: living in the White House, flying in private planes and getting the royal treatment wherever you go. Great, right? The D.C. version of Gossip Girl, even. But with one little addition: men with guns. All the time. For Malia and Sasha Obama, dating would have been hard enough in normal world, but while the perks of daddy being Prez are great and all, the downside will be a constant posse of Secret Service agents. Even on dates. According to the Daily News, although M and S are not yet teens (ages 10 and 7, respectively), President Obama has already addressed what their dating lives will be like when the girls are getting ready for first kisses, under the shirt explorations, and, "everything but," high school hookups.

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5 Kissing Mistakes To Avoid

Good smooch, bad smooch. Is it really that simple?

Is kissing an art, one that can be perfected with practice? According to this LLL post, yes, indeed it is, and there are five mistakes all kissing Casanovas should avoid making, lest they be cast into one of five undesirable, bad-kisser categories. Okay, fair enough. But this does bring up one big question....

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How To Kiss Well

A guy who loves kissing explains why making out is special and how to deal with a bad kisser.

A guy who loves kissing explains how he taught his girlfriends to kiss and love it, why making out is special and how to deal with a bad kisser. "I am an aficionado of the kiss. No other act is so simple and so intimate… A good kiss is a rapport enacted physically, like sex, but more erotic."