The Benefits of Kissing

Learn the advantages of locking lips with your partner.

Pucker Up - Puckering up is essential in orchestrating our happiness and stimulating our minds and body. Locking lips also strengthens your relationship as well as boosts your emotional health. Just in case you needed more motivation, we’ve put together some of the pros that come from sharing a passionate kiss with your special someone. By Dontaira Terrell (Photo: LWA/Sharie Kennedy/Blend Images/Corbis)

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Pucker Up - Puckering up is essential in orchestrating our happiness and stimulating our minds and body. Locking lips also strengthens your relationship as well as boosts your emotional health. Just in case you needed more motivation, we’ve put together some of the pros that come from sharing a passionate kiss with your special someone. By Dontaira Terrell (Photo: LWA/Sharie Kennedy/Blend Images/Corbis)

Appreciate and Compliment Each Other More - Sometimes it’s being told that you are appreciated and loved that can make a difference in a relationship. So let them know how great they are and show them how much you're trying. (Photo: 68/Ocean/Corbis)

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Relationship Builder - Couples who kiss their mate regularly create a sense of togetherness, become more connected and generally get along better. It’s also been suggested couples who kiss daily live five years longer than those who don’t. Muah! (Photo: 68/Ocean/Corbis)

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Look More Contemporary (And Younger) - While makeup can unquestionably enhance your appearance, too much of it can, in fact, make you look dated, dull and older. Caked-on is what you don’t want. Instead, learn to use a minimalist approach that will not only slash years off of your appearance, but also help you in loving the skin you’re in. (Photo: GettyImages)

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Forever Young - A serious make-out session helps to keep you looking young, plus kissing not only exercises a large amount of your facial muscles, it also tightens your cheeks and strengthens the neck and jawline. (Photo: GettyImages)  

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Burns Calories - Not to be mistaken for a workout replacement, but kissing longer than a minute immediately burns off the calories. So next time your bae walks through the door, pucker up and land a big one on ‘em! (Photo: GettyImages)  

You Reduce Your Chance of Having Unprotected Sex - Being under the influence can lower our inhibitions and usher in riskier sexual behavior because you are not thinking as clearly. By not getting drunk, you are lowering your risk of STDs and HIV.(Photo: Adamsmith/Getty Images)

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Promotes Pleasure - Your sexual response is aroused when you kiss your partner by triggering oxytocin, which is known as the "love hormone." And as your heart rate begins to increase, so does your erotic desire. (Photo: GettyImages)  

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Be Present - Life is short, and we only have so much time to make the most of it. Why waste it worrying about things that don’t matter? Here are 10 ways to enjoy your life and live in the moment. By Jillian Baker (Photo: Image Source/Getty Images)

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Reduces Stress - Stealing a kiss from your beau after a bad workday is the secret remedy to turning your day around. Smooching not only reduces stress levels, it also helps you to relax and unwind.  (Photo: Image Source/Getty Images)

Polar Vortex Brings in “Pollen Vortex” This Allergy Season - Health experts are predicting that the extreme winter we experienced this year is going to make allergy season one of the worst ever. Why? Because the winter pushed back pollen season and now all of the plants are dumping pollen right now instead of in phases, Mother Jones writes. Are you ready for the Pollen Vortex?(Photo: Fuse/Getty Images)

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Aids the Immune System - Although it seems contradictory, kissing is a good way to fight off viruses because it releases antibodies that destroy bacteria. (Photo: GettyImages) 

It’s Not for Every Couple - It’s OK if working out together doesn’t work for you. There are plenty of other ways and activities that you can bond over.(Photo: momentimages/Corbis)

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Increases Happiness - All it takes is a little smooch to immediately turn your frown upside down. Endorphins, also known as the "feel good" hormones, intensify while simultaneously improving your mood when kissing. (Photo: momentimages/Corbis)

Boosts Self-Esteem - Sharing in an intimate kiss is a great form of medicine as it uplifts your confidence to the next level. Theoretically, when people smooch on a consistent basis, it promotes feelings of happiness. Happy feelings transform your inner being by causing you to exude high levels of self-assurance and self-confidence. (Photo: Josef Lindau/Corbis)

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Boosts Self-Esteem - Sharing in an intimate kiss is a great form of medicine as it uplifts your confidence to the next level. Theoretically, when people smooch on a consistent basis, it promotes feelings of happiness. Happy feelings transform your inner being by causing you to exude high levels of self-assurance and self-confidence. (Photo: Josef Lindau/Corbis)

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Proves Compatibility - Do you remember your first kiss as being a turn on or a turn off? A first kiss can make or break the outcome of a relationship as it is one of the determining factors in measuring the initial attraction you may or may not have to your partner. (Photo: GettyImages)