Kiss Me Deadly

Good morning, my Lovelies! It's Thursday and I'm desperately wishing it was the weekend instead. I hope you're having a fabulous week and that you've found a reason to smile, a reason to laugh, a reason to love. For a few days now I've been bouncing around ideas, different topics that I wanted to talk about, and still when I opened my blog program this morning, I did so with no idea or direction for what I wanted to share with you. But I heard my blog title song on the way to work this morning and it is now running through my head on a constant loop, so I'm taking it as a sign that it was meant to be my subject matter. 

Kissing. There are so many different kinds of kissing and we experience a huge array of emotions during those kisses. There's the familial kiss, a simple show of love that is often a peck on the cheek. There's the first kiss that is most often anxiously awaited for and full of excitement at the possibilities of things to come. There's the kiss that tells your partner you're in love, tender and full of feeling - you know, the kiss that makes your bones melt with all the love it contains. And there's the kiss that is passionate, sensual, and sexually demanding. A kiss that is so full of want and need that there is no doubt how much your partner wants to be with you, wants to do things with you, and to you.

There's more, so much more, but you see where I'm going. What happens when we kiss? Oh, so much! A deeply passionate kiss can burn anywhere from 5-26 calories per minute. When we experience those kisses that share our hunger for our partners our brains release a mixture of chemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin. These kisses tickle our pleasure centers and make us feel euphoric. We can experience an adrenaline rush, we can experience arousal, and we can feel less stress and anxiety. 

We just feel happier, damn it!

So why am I talking about kissing? It has to do with one of the things I enjoy most about the writing that I do. Setting a visual scene, painting a picture of what is happening in my story, is vital to me. I want my readers to feel as if they are one of my characters, that they are experiencing what my characters are experiencing.

Yes, I write many sexual scenes. Yes, I try to make them as sensual and arousing as I can. One thing I've learned is that you can't overlook the importance of the kiss during those scenes. Yes, the sexual act itself is stimulating, but there is something amazingly euphoric about a well-timed, perfectly placed, kiss that can make or break a scene.

Let's face it, there is something amazingly euphoric about a well-timed, perfectly placed kiss whether it is in a book, a movie, or my personal favorite, in real life. Here's hoping that you all remember the wonderful things a kiss can do for you, mentally, physically, and emotionally.  Kiss me softly, kiss me passionately, kiss me until all I crave is your touch. Whatever your reasoning, let's just kiss.

Until next time, and as always,

Much love (and kisses) from me to you!

Shelly (a/k/a Dawn Love)

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