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A kiss is just a kiss? Nah, in these days of super-sizing meals and enhanced lifestyles, a buss here, a peck there are more than what meets the eye.

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The angel Kiss:
This is a sweet, comforting kiss. Gently and ever so lightly kiss your partner either on the eye lid or right next to the eyes.

The butterfly kiss:
With your faces less than a breath away, open and close your eyelids against your partners. The fluttering sensation will match your heart's

Forget the handwriting analysis, check out your kissing karma. The white coated guys from the philematology lab tell us that the way you turn during a kiss is determined in the womb. Most kissing partners prefer to tilt towards the right.

The vacuum kiss:
While kissing open-mouthed, slightly suck in as if you were sucking the air from your partner’s mouth. This is a playful kiss.

The eyelid kiss:
Softly kiss your partners eyelids one at a time. This is a very erotic and arousing kiss.

Onur Gunturkun, a professor at the Ruhr-University of Bochum in Germany, came to this conclusion after spying on 224 kissing couples. The right-tilting preference, Gunturkun said, is likely to be formed in the womb.

The eskimo kiss:
With your faces less than a breath apart, rub your noses together. 

The ghost kiss:
Get very close to your lover's face and look down at their lips as if you're about to kiss them. Just as they believe you're going to kiss, brush your lips up over their cheekbones and eyelids without firmly kissing. The ghost kiss will leave them wanting so much more.

He suggests that during the final weeks of gestation babies develop behavioural asymmetry, a preference towards turning their heads to the left or the right. Kissing has all sorts of physiological effects. The pulse rate goes up, blood pressure rises, the pupils in the eyes get bigger and the partners breathe more deeply.

The ice cream kiss:
Take your partner out for ice cream and order one cone. Take the first bite and keep it in your mouth. Lean into your partner for a French kiss with the ice cream. Trade off taking bites. It's fun and a little funny.

The mermaid kiss:
Have your partner let all of his/her breath out and go under water. Follow them down, connect, and give your breath to them. This kiss is fun and very connecting.

Just how you smooch could also draw the fine line between Latin Lovah and Loser. Heading straight for the tonsils with the tussle muscle is the oral equivalent of wham-bam-thank-you maam. Unless you have the flamboyance and attitude of a swaggering Colin Farrell.

If not, slink back and brush up on some kama techniques, suggest experts, till you get lucky next time.

Xtra Delite: A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories. Kissing releases the same neurotransmitters as intense exercise, like parachuting or distance running. The heart beats faster and breathing becomes deep and irregular.

Keep your eyes open or closed during the act has more Freudian interpretations than even Dr Sigmund might have imagined. Watch out for the eyes-wide-open types. They haven't given you their heart as yet, cautions Dr Feelgood. Now, Mr Lovah Lovah, are you experienced?

Xtra Delite: Between 10 million and 1 billion colonies (groups of bacteria) are swapped with each smooch! But saliva also contains antibacterial chemicals that kill most bacteria before the germs are exchanged in a kiss.

A simple pucker uses two muscles. A passionate kiss uses all 34 facial muscles. Psychologists believe this influences the subsequent development of a preference for moving the nose to the left or right when puckering up.