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Volume 38 Issue 9
February 13, 2001

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Virginia Tech volunteers examine 'Art of Kissing’

BY AMY BAAB
U-WIRE
Submitted February 13, 2001

BLACKSBURG, Va.–Virginia Tech students who attended a seminar Wednesday night were schooled in the ways of the kiss.

"The Art of Kissing" was presented Wednesday night in Squires Colonial Hall by William Kane, a professor at Boston College and author of the book "The Art of Kissing."

"Folks, this is a sex show," Kane said as the presentation began.

"I can't promise I'll show you how to have an orgasm, but we're going to show you everything else."

Kane had six student volunteers kiss in different scenarios, including a dentist's office, a barbershop and a car, to explain how students should kiss differently in different places.

"You have such a romantic campus here," Kane said. "There are so many places to kiss here like Preston (& Co.), Top of the Stairs and the cow fields."

He explained there are many types of kisses.

There are Eskimo kisses, upside-down vacuum kisses, lipsuction kisses, kissing to the beat of music and French kisses, Kane said.

In one scenario, Kane had the girls climb on top of the guys and kiss them on the neck while the guys spanked them.

In another scenario, Kane had all the students climb onto the floor and kiss each other.

"This is an orgy kiss," Kane said.

There was one couple, but the other four student volunteers had not met each other, said Matt Duffy, a senior management science and psychology major who volunteered to be a kisser.

"We did about 45 minutes of training," Duffy said. "It was intense."

"It's definitely is a show just to make people laugh," said Scott Tolley, a sophomore mechanical engineering major who volunteered with his girlfriend.

Several students described the presentation as shocking yet interesting.

"I was really shocked, but I learned some good stuff," said Carolyn Gerhardt, a sophomore human nutrition, foods and exercise major.

Men and women like different things when they kiss, Kane said.

"Men like biting, tongue and wide-open mouth," he said. "Women are twice as likely to like ear kisses, and they are 10 times as likely to like neck kisses."

Both sexes like French kissing, Kane said. Ninety-six percent of people surveyed in his book liked to French kiss.

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