Kiss A kiss was a social expression , largely of sexuality , generally involving the touching of lip s to share affection . Cheek kissing was a friendly gesture , which was decidedly " modern " in 19th century culture , ( TV : " The Unquiet Dead " ) and still taken as a bit odd into the 21st . ( TV : " The Lodger " ) For the most part , kissing was seen as a sexual or romantic . Gwen Cooper and Owen Harper spontaneously shared a kiss when confined to a small storage space , during which Gwen " could feel [ his ] hard on " . ( TV : " Cyberwoman " ) This soon led to a sex ual affair between them , unbeknownst to Gwen ' s boyfriend Rhys Williams . ( TV : " Countrycide " , " Greeks Bearing Gifts " ) Rory Williams took offence when he heard that his fiancée Amy Pond had kissed the Eleventh Doctor . The Doctor assured him that it should have been Rory to receive that kiss , and that she had only kissed him because he was there . ( TV : " The Vampires of Venice " ) Kissing Sophie grounded Craig Owens in his desire to stay in Colchester , to be with her , and so activated emergency shutdown in 79B Aickman Road , ending the time loop s and kill s it had been causing . ( TV : " The Lodger " ) Mere hours after his regeneration , the Eighth Doctor shared a kiss with Grace Holloway . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) He would kiss Fitz Kreiner squarely on the lips after finding out that he was still alive . ( PROSE : " Dominion " ) Through his encounter with his tenth and eleventh incarnation s , the War Doctor , found that his future held " a lot of kissing " ; the Eleventh Doctor confirmed , " It does start to happen , yeah . " ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) The Ninth Doctor once claimed that to appreciate time travel , one must treat it like a trip to Paris and kiss complete strangers , and suggested that he himself had done so . ( TV : " The Long Game " ) He also happily accepted a goodbye kiss from Captain Jack Harkness . ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) After getting stranded in the year 200 , 100 and teleporting to the late 19th century , Jack promised , " First I ' m gonna kiss him , and then I ' m gonna kill him . " ( TV : " Fragments " ) This Doctor also kissed Rose Tyler , as one of his final actions , to absorb the excess vortex energy she had taken in from the heart of the TARDIS . ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) The Tenth Doctor shared a kiss with companion s Rose Tyler , ( PROSE : " The Stone Rose " ) Martha Jones ( TV : " Smith and Jones " ) and Donna Noble ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) — as well as Jackie Tyler , ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) Madame de Pompadour , ( TV : " The Girl in the Fireplace " ) Astrid Peth , ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) Joan Redfern , ( TV : " Human Nature " ) Christina de Souza , ( TV : " Planet of the Dead " ) Queen Elizabeth I , and a Zygon duplicate of the same Queen . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Soon after his regeneration , he was glad to find that he " still got it " after Cassandra O ' Brien , in Rose Tyler ' s body , kissed him enthusiastically . ( TV : " New Earth " ) He gave both Martha and Frank the option of kissing him later , as he was busy at the time trying to defeat the Dalek s . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " ) The Eleventh Doctor kissed Rory Williams on two occasions , ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " , " Dinosaurs on a Spaceship " ) and nearly kissed Craig Owens on another . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) He received a kiss from Amy Pond when she attempted to seduce him , ( TV : " Flesh and Stone " ) and from the Victorian Clara Oswald , who claimed that he blushed . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) Soon after regeneration , River Song attempted to kill the Eleventh Doctor with a poisoned kiss . She referred to this as " perhaps the cruellest " kind of war fare . She later kissed the Doctor again while reviving him with her own remaining regeneration energy . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) Upon being wedded in an alternate timeline , the two shared a kiss . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) Upon saying goodbye to the Eleventh Doctor , she kissed him , surpsied to find he had never kissed her before , understanding it was a much younger version . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) The Doctor later kissed her data ghost . ( TV : " The Name of the Doctor " ) Upon meeting him , kissed the Twelfth Doctor passionately . His reaction : a fearful " Clara , is it over now ? " ( TV : " Dark Water " ) He later quickly returned the favour in thanks . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) The Twelfth Doctor thought of kissing , " As an activity , it ' s not hugely varied , " asking , " Doesn ' t it get dull after a while ? " ( TV : " The Husbands of River Song " )