Are you amongst the 89%?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/37tzaoa

/// Researchers at the University of Bath found that 89 per cent of white undergraduate men at two UK universities and one sixth form college said they were happy to kiss another man on the lips through friendship.///

Is this all researchers at Universities have to research, and why only white men?

I have noticed that the safe good old hand shake, has now advanced to a good hug and a pat on the back, even cheek to cheek, but a kiss on the lips ugh!.

No this should be reserved as a show of affection and passion between a man and woman.

Ah! the smell of perfume, and the taste of a good lipstick, yes "these are amongst our favourite things".

[steg]

i have had guys kiss my hand, kiss my cheek, but thankfully not on the lips .....yet.....i would prefer them to kiss my r's

[ummmm]

I don't think my OH would have a problem kissing a select few on the lips. He's confident in his sexuality and he actually loves some of his closest friends. I think it's nice to see.

[ChuckFickens]

with or without tongues ?

[DEN53]

Theres two men that live in my house that would'nt...(:0(

[WELSHYORKIE]

AOG - re the last line - they are amongst our favourite things - just not on blokes!!!

[Zeuhl]

Hmmmm

Call me a pedant but I'd like to see this research's sampling criteria, the sample size and how the question was framed.

The result may be for white men only because I imagine other ethnic groups were separated and gave a result that was different (and less newsworthy?)

To my mind, lip contact is too sexual.

I don't kiss my daughter on the lips anymore (she's 21) - is that weird or correct?
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[sherminator]

I was mouth raped by a guy once does that count? hahaha we were very drunk and these two girls said they would kiss each oter if we would!!!!

So my mate (who unfortunately is a lot more stronger than me!!!) pinned me to the ground and snogged me!!!!

sending shivers through me just thinking about it!!!! hahaha

[R1Geezer]

bunch of p00fs

[joeluke]

Greet another bloke with a kiss on the lips??? I don't Fluffing think so

Male to male contact should be restricted to a firm handshake and nothing more

Unless you're a shirtlifter that is

[jno]

pah, I was soooo waiting to hear joeluke on this topic and now he's gone...

[joeluke]

jno.....I gave my view and someone took a dislike to it

My post was hardly offensive, all I said was that a firm handshake should be the only greeting 2 men should make

[neil42]

eeeeewwwwwww

[Prudie]

The way people answer on a survey and what they really think are often very different.

[sandyRoe]

Do you think the answers given to this survey were tongue in cheek?

[piggynose]

what about kissing cousins?

[jake-the-peg]

It's a cultural thing

In the middle ages this was very common and there was nothing sexual about it at all.

Here's a picture of St. Peter and St. Paul having a snog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_kiss

It doesn't upset me if others want to but I'd not be comfortable with it myself - we're all the product of our own seperate cultures.

[jno]

like Zeuhl, I am slightly suspicious of these 'findings' and wonder exactly how they were achieved.

Wish I could give sandyRoe three gold stars for his answer.

[puternut]

As with a lot of these surveys does it say '89%' of how many?

They boast '89% of people agree' and then in much smaller letters you find the sample is a pitifully small nmber. 200 people out of 60 million is not an accurate sample

[ummmm]

I mentioned this question to OH. He said 'I only kiss Spina, he's Italian'