In the odd, dystopian world that we live in, a doting father kissing his loving son is something that is deemed “unacceptable”. Want to show your child some affection? Don’t – instead, make like Miss ...

FARGO -- Ashley Johnson, a mother of twin boys who turn 3 next month, thinks kissing her children on the lips is the natural thing to do. "I don't think it's any different from breast-feeding them," ...

When my 3-year-old is in a good mood, she asks for a “true love kiss.” She first heard the phrase during a family viewing of Shrek, but it has since become her signal that she is craving affection.

(CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his ...

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When I was in college studying English literature, I came across this wonderful stanza written by Christopher Marlowe for his play, Doctor Faustus (Act V, Scene 1): Sweet Helen, make me immortal with ...

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