Love and Dating: Is It Okay For Me To Kiss And Smooch In My Relationship?

Kissing And Smooching

Kissing is the act of expressing desire and passion for another. Kisses can be strong and passionate, very heated, backed by strong sexual desire.

Smooching  to kiss, hold, and touch someone in a sexual way, to cuddle. Smooching is a lot more than kissing, it involves slow kisses and a lot of cuddling and could set you in the mood for a sexual act.

What Happens To Your Body During Kissing and Smooching

Blood Flow
If you’re really into this dude, the kiss sends shock waves throughout your body that can increase blood flow to certain areas. Your nipples stiffen, fluttery stomach, tingling genitals.

Adrenal Glands
Sensing the hubbub, the adrenal glands unleash adrenaline. Cue a pounding heart, heavy breathing, or sweaty palms. (If you two become a couple, kissing could eventually trigger an opposite effect—peace instead of passion.)

Brain
The physical thrill may prompt your brain to cue up dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure. At the same time, other parts of your brain are shutting down negative emotions.

Your lip locking may also have prompted your pituitary gland (and his) to release oxytocin, the “bonding hormone.” You two might already be forming an emotional attachment.

Why It Isn’t Advisable To Kiss And Smooch As A Teenager

All the above actions when coupled together can send signals to your brain to initiate sex.

If you’re not interested in having sex  why should you go into kissing and smooching at all. Kissing carries some risk to it, simply because it puts you in close, intimate contact with another person. Though kissing is a show of love and affection, yet its risky.
As a Teenager in a relationship, your ultimate goal is not to engage in activities that will push or lead you into having sex with your boyfriend or partner. As a matter of fact, you should actually stay away from activities that can lead you into having sexual relations with your partner and kissing and smooching is one of them. The sensitizing nature of kissing or smooching can awaken serious arousal or passions within you. It can even turn you on. Kissing and smooching are pleasurable acts better practised amidst married couples rather than among young people who are not married as the consequences of these acts could lead to sex.

Aside from sex, do you also know that while kissing, there is an exchange of various micro-organisms between you and your partner. Except you are sure your partner is faithful to you, not sick and free of all diseases, then it is quite risky exchanging so much saliva and micro organisms with your partner. Read this article to understand better MONONUCLEOSIS: The Disease Every Kisser Should Be Aware Of! so except you are ready to face all the consequences attached to kissing and smooching, my advice – Don’t Do It. 

You can have a perfectly healthy relationship without kissing or smooching. Relationships should not be based on physical touch.