Rabu, 13 Juni 2012

How to kiss, 1940s-style: Stand close together, hold each other lightly and don¿t sprawl all over a chair

How to kiss, 1940s-style: Stand close together, hold each other lightly and don¿t sprawl all over a chair

By Emma Reynolds

PUBLISHED: 09:13 EST, 13 June 2012 | UPDATED: 16:08 EST, 13 June 2012

The art of kissing has been around for centuries - so why not learn how to do it the old-fashioned way?

According to these romantic pictures from a 1942 edition of Life magazine, there are some vital basic steps to follow to achieve the perfect clinch.

First, the how-to guide recommends that kissers should not stand too far apart - pointing out that actors doing this on stage look 'juvenile if they are so stand-offish'.

Actors kissing on-stage look too juvenile if they are so stand-offish

WRONG: Actors kissing on-stage look too juvenile if they are so stand-offish

Boy and girl should stand close together and not hold each other too tightly

RIGHT: Boy and girl should stand close together and not hold each other too tightly

Indeed, many may be able to attest to this fact from hazy memories of schools discos.

Lovers are instead advised to stand close together to show their passion, but not hold each other too tightly.

The next thing to remember is not to 'sprawl all over the chair' in a moment of heated passion. This is apparently considered ungraceful and is 'bad technique.'

Instead, the girl should avoid all danger of her sensible skirt riding up by sitting on the arm of a chair while the boy holds her.

Sprawling all over the chair is considered ungraceful

WRONG: Sprawling all over the chair is considered ungraceful

Girl should sit on arm of the chair and boy should hold her firmly but lightly

RIGHT: Girl should sit on arm of the chair and boy should hold her firmly but lightly

He should do so 'firmly but lightly', the etiquette guide continues.

While some of the strict advice may seem quaint, the instructions from a back issue of Life magazine have provoked fierce debate over points of style.

One user of Retronaut.com commented: 'In #3 is he trying to kiss or strangle her… it’s hard to decide', while another compared it to the Heimlich manoeuvre.

But a user with differing taste wrote: 'Apart from the placement of the right hand, #3 looks pretty nice to me. Left elbow should be down a bit, too.'

Here's what other readers have said. Why not add your thoughts, or debate this issue live on our message boards.

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Kate, Portsmouth - I have a pair exactly like the ones in the pictures - got them at Aldo.

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Now, screen couples go at it like ravenous cannibals, looks more like assault and battery than passion. - Ray, N. Ireland, 13/6/2012 20:55 LOL this made me laugh so much. Now every time I see someone doing it I'll have the phrase 'ravenous cannibals' in my head! I really hate it when people do it on public transport- why?! It's also horrible when you're trying to kiss someone (especially when it's just a kiss) and they ram their tongue down your throat, eugh... I don't know, men seem to like it that way

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Kissing (and eating), and the majority of sex scenes on screen has been for the last forty years gross, cringefests, I can't think of one film where it's felt comfortable or natural for the characters to be intimate, it's something really that should be more implied than shown. The mannered studio approach of old where sex was never or hardly never shown and kissing was an art worked much better.

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This has not got anything to do with the kissing but I genuinely like that lady's shoes would anyone know if its still possible to acquire a pair of those?

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Innocent times, when it's felt a magazine article is necessary to show people how to kiss.

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Got to say that I am very lucky to have a partner who kisses me like this, even though we're both 21. I seem to have found a true gentleman :)

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It looks like he's about to snap her neck! Romance is dead indeed!

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Now, screen couples go at it like ravenous cannibals, looks more like assault and battery than passion.

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Not like now, we just eat one anothers faces!

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He looks like he's about to snap her neck in that second "wrong" photo! Sigh, what I wouldn't do for a little romance right about now...

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