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This detail from “Sode no maki” (“Handscroll for the Sleeve”), a woodblock print created by the artist Torii Kiyonaga around 1785, reveals that the romantic kiss was alive and well in 18th-century Japa
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The Half of the World That Doesn’t Make Out

William Jankowiak, Justin R. Garcia, and Shelly Volsche
Surprisingly few societies have romantic kissing in their repertoire.