I wouldn’t kiss anyone I wasn’t in a relationship with. While I admit to being a 0 Kinsey scale, or an outlier, mostly I don’t enjoy kissing people without romantic attachment. The individuals I am romantically involved with will probably be in my preferred gender is the only reason.
Even as a child the mistletoe concept just creeped the heck out of me.
Put me in this camp as well.
I have seen guys online say stuff like “I’m heterosexual, but I might be willing to switch for [insert apparently attractive male actor]!”
That is definitely not me.
Would you kiss a zombie?
Hell, I wouldn’t kiss a person of my *preferred *gender under the mistletoe unless it was my wife (or daughter). Maybe in my 20s I’d’ve answered differently.
Straight guy here. I can’t imagine the circumstances under which it would arise, but I wouldn’t have a problem kissing a male friend.
He’d have to buy me dinner if he wanted the oral sex, though.
And I mean someplace classy, like Olive Garden or Red Lobster.
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Euro-style cheek bussing, sure. Lip-to-lip? Ain’t happening.
US straight guy. Would definitely do it with a friend, and I have some straight friends who will kiss on the lips as a greeting in everyday circumstances. With a stranger? Not that I’d go EWWWW, but wouldn’t want to inadvertently send a misleading message.
NFW.
Um… those of us who are sexually attracted to men and not to women?
That said - since achieving adulthood the only people I kiss are those I’m in an intimate relationship with. Meaning no, not only would I not kiss someone of my non-preferred gender under the mistletoe, I wouldn’t kiss someone of my preferred gender, either, unless I was in a relationship with that person already.
Only to turn on Ukulele Ike - and well after I was seven because we don’t want to make poor taste pedophile jokes.
Not For Work? OK, but would you as a hobby?
Kissing men, probably. Sorry: I was a judgy little prick ten years ago, wasn’t I?
I don’t grok this concept of “preferred gender.”