Our Wise Guide to better sex. Take our quiz . You can fantasize about someone else during intercourse, you can tune out a person giving you head, but it's extremely difficult to ignore someone whose tongue is redecorating the inside of your mouth. Kissing involves smell, taste, pressure, nonstop communication, and absolute physical proximity a combination that most other sexual activities can't match. The other person is so close he can't be ignored.
Most adolescents love to kiss, but begin to lose interest when genital sex becomes an option.
Kissing can be a satisfying way to have a profound and sexy conversation with someone. Partly, its very intimacy can be a little daunting. When you're kissing, there's nowhere to hide. In fact, kissing can be an intimacy gauge. Kissing a partner we don't like, especially an enthusiastic one, can be an awful experience.