Hence the “gasp”.
I mean - “Peter Rabbit” - it’s practically an admission that the contents contain some sort of beastiality.
Beatrix Potter is full of perversion. I mean, just look at some of her illustrations. WTF is going on in this one?!
Yeah, you’ve got this totally backwards.
Well duh, how else are you supposed to get them in the mood? 
Parents kissing their children on the lips is perfectly normal and healthy. But you know what’s really bizarre? Two grown adults who are sexually interested in each other kissing on the lips.
No, I’m being completely serious, here. You know how kissing originated? When children are being weaned, but before they’ve got their full set of teeth, mothers would feed them by chewing up food for them, and then transferring it into the kid’s mouth. Well, humans being social animals who invest a lot of resources in our children, it developed into a sign of affection, and so parents would kiss their children even when not feeding them. And then it developed from a sign of affection towards children specifically into being for affection in general.
How twisted is that? We managed to turn a technique for feeding toddlers into a prelude to sex. And if you’re really troubled about the connection, there, then you should be giving up the sexual kissing, not the parental kissing.
Never kiss my kids on the mouth. (have you seen what can come out of a kids nose-and therefore get on those lips ??? :eek: ) Kisses on the cheek, forehead, top of the head, lots of hugs.
As a doctor, I would tell the parents of small children: "You want to avoid getting every cold and cough your child has? 1. Don’t kiss on the lips 2. don’t share drinks (you make a BIG DEAL out of it= You are a BIG boy/girl, you get to have Your OWN CUP 3. Wash your hands often.
You’re not well.
THAT’S how it is.
IT’S not very nice to post such ignorance.
^^Username/content juxtaposition FTW.
Not to mention sexual suckling… another baby-feeding technique turned into foreplay.
I know exactly what you mean, which probably explains why I kissed my own child on the lips even though I wasn’t raised that way myself. The instinct to do so was just so unbelievably strong. I came to the conclusion at the time that kissing had been invented by/for babies, and went from there, as you say, to a more general expression of affection.
Yes, well, I’ll give you that. 
There is definitely a squick factor in that sense.
Wow. When y’all talk about kissing kids on the “lips” or “cheeks” you are talking about their faces, right? Cause I’m another FFS.
I believe you’re thinking of a BJ.
No no no! Bodies are dirty and sexual, and touching and intimacy of any kind is all about penises and vaginas!
I know that whenever I hug or kiss anybody it’s really all about wanting to spooge all over them. Don’t lie and pretend that it’s not the same for you.
What are you, some kind of sicko? All you child-cuddlers and kiddie-kissers are no better than pedophiles.
:rolleyes:
I don’t kiss my kids on the mouth. We do lots of face kisses, hugs, and cuddling and sleeping together. I’m much more affectionate with my kids than was typical in my family of Yankee WASPs. When we got mushy we shook hands. Hugs, and especially cheek kisses were so rare as to be distinctly memorable occasions. Weird, eh?
It doesn’t bother me to see families kiss on the lips. It’s just not natural for me to do.
Heh, I’m sorta similar. In fact, I remember one time when I was heading off as a young kid to camp, and the other kids were kissing and hugging their parents - and I shook hands with mine. I never forgot that, because that was pretty well the first time I ever felt that my family was a bit odd.
Now I’m a parent myself, I’ve decided to be much more physically affectionate with my kid - I do give him good-night kisses on the lips, partly because that’s more prevelant in my wife’s culture, and I’ve decided that I like hers better than mine in that respect.
My daughter went from kissing me on the lips to the cheek about the time she entered middle school. She decided. I just stick my face out there. I will occasionally grab my grown up son for a hug, but no kissing anymore for him, except from his mother, of course. Yes, the old standards die hard.
Sorry all, but I stand by what I say, sitting on laps, cuddles etc. are perfectly normal (though anyone who reads Peter Rabbit to their kids is obviously some sort of deranged pervert) but kissing on the lips is a sexual act.
Do you as adults kiss your parents on the lips ?
If not why not ?
Do you as adults kiss your adult brothers and sisters on the lips ?
According to your contention this too is a perfectly normal way of showing none sexual affection.
No, it doesn’t work for me no matter how hard you try to rationalise it.
Yes, and yes.
Heh, I’m over 40 and I don’t suckle on my mom’s teats. But my newborn suckling on my wife’s teats isn’t a “sexual act”. 
Come to think of it, I don’t kiss my children much anymore. And I don’t recall kissing on the lips either, even when they were young.
I kiss my daughter on the top of the head, mostly, because she’s shorter than me and that’s what I can reach. My son is pretty much eye to eye with me now, and I don’t think of kissing him much.
They’re both good about hugging their old dad, though. Except they are both away at college now, so…
Sigh.
Regards,
Shodan
Yes and yes. Also my granny, my best friend and his wife, my one year old nephew (although I can do without the giant-open-mouth toddler kisses - whoa, buddy!), and a few other folks. It’s an affectionate peck, usually while hugging hello or goodbye.
If you can’t tell the difference between the kiss you’d give your mom and the kiss you’d give a lover - even if both are on the lips - you’re doing something wrong.
At least you got that part of your post right.