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In this video by Tatia Pilieva, twenty strangers kiss for the first time, and it’s sweeter than you would imagine.
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There’s something very sweet about this video. I think it’s the very obvious vulnerability of the people involved. The black and white videography and lighting help too. Who knew strangers kissing could be so romantic?
Kissing is one of the most intimate acts of affection that we can share with another human being, and the sad fact is that many people don’t know how telling a kiss truly is. Here at the Good Men Project, we did an in-depth article revealing some things you should know about what is truly revealed in a kiss because A Man’s Kiss Tells You Everything.
You may also be interested to see how kissing can be used to express non-sexual feelings to the same gender in this study by British researchers at the University of Bath on Straight British Men Kissing Each Other.
Editor’s note: Turns out this beautiful video was part of an ad campaign—some of the people in it are musicians and actors. But we don’t think that diminishes the reality that this was their first kiss, and they had just met. These truly are first kisses.
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Learn about the science of kissing on NPR or read more about more love, sex and romance visit our Sex & Relationships section.
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there is nothing better than a hot kisses it gives more desire
why im i not in this film? XP lol This is very Cute Romantic.
It was an ad. They are all actors. Vice magazine did another in which actual people off the street did the same thing. Unlike here, where the actors are all similar ages and conventionally attractive, the Vice film did not shy away from age or choose to reinforce a certain body image.
Thank you! confirmed what I was thinking!!!
Cute post to scrape and re-share but this video was produced with actors to promote a clothing line. Some online news sites shared that early last week.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/first-kiss-viral-video-was-just-a-clothing-advert-starring-actors-9188967.html
A feel good video.. Someone may just have found their The One. Better to be kissing & loving just for the heck of it than to experiment with arms.
(sorry kissing strange people is how you get mono been there done that no thank you)
Lmfaoooooooooo…..
BEAUTIFUL!!! Today’s people have no interaction! To get strangers to kiss, humanity has hope!!! <3
The most beautifull thing a men and woman have created… kissing the most simple thing that brings such much love and passion..it makes more heat than a nuclear bomb…
This is just wonderful. I laughed, cringed and cried. Its all about being comfortable with your own intimacy and being vulnerable. Amazing, well done to the creator of this.
They should make one about strangers embracing for the first time. would be just as intense and maybe as passionate as a kiss. The feeling of being held in someone’s arms, close together also brings about deep emotions and is very special.
Contrived and doughy. Next…
For sure looks like they all enjoy 🙂
Sounds like fun
This video confirms me once again that if too people (a women and a men), with differents age, are in a desert island, they will and up together, and they will love one anotther. I’m a women and I think I can marry with any men I see and I put one my mind, because love is start one your mind.
Why don’t you disclose that this is an advertisement?
Point??
The sample space for the participants in the video adds no surprise to what we see. The people in the video have probably done this a hundred times before in common settings like nightclubs or holidays. Try taking people from non-western communities and ask them to do the same. That would be interesting.
But probably under the influence of much alcohol where they have less inhibitions….. This was raw
Right, because all western people do is make out with strangers at clubs…
I couldn’t watch the whole thing, it made me uneasy and nauseous. What the heck is wrong with me?
Might just be de hydraded or tired, could also be a symptom of anxiety
I couldn’t watch the whole clip either. It freaked me out.
It’s called social anxiety disorder, but I don’t like the disorder part so I call it a phase, some people feel nauseous or nervous around people they really like or if the are put in on the spot situations. Watching this must have triggered the anxiety because you subconsciously put your self in their position. The mind is a powerful thing. I’ve had this issue for about 4 years now and it comes and goes. My doctor prescribed me alperolazam or something like it. If stuff like this makes you literally sick then I would go see a doctor.
Unless you do have anxiety, the nausea is more likely triggered by the fact that this is actually an advertisement for overpriced clothing, featuring actors and models, not ordinary people, and strategically marketed as a social experiment with a click-bait title for maximum exposure. Brilliant bit of advertising, actually. Or maybe you just find gaping open-mouthed kisses between total strangers kind of yucky – I would never do this with some random guy provided by an ad agency, so I can’t help but think it’s a bit gross.. But I’m not an actor; I imagine its de rigeur for them.… Read more »
well.. ok i agree with what lots are saying about mixing not so pretty ppl & ppl of a diff backgrounds, but, maybe maybe maybe, the not so pretty ppl didn’t agree to do this, they were shy/ not comfortable due to the others’ reaction. probably older ppl weren’t that okay to kiss strangers.. again, maybe maybe … regardless what i think about kissing strangers, i thought the guy who asked the girl about her name & gave her a hand shake was really nice, it was like he was carefully breaking her personal sone… & strangely “the actor girl”… Read more »
We loved this! So raw, awkward, intimate and beautifully shot. Intimacy is such an interesting aspect of human behaviour. We too are fascinated by human behaviour and are doing a project on True Love (a range of stories around the world about how people find it, keep it or search for it)…please feel free to have a peak at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2047257761/finding-westley.
What about people who never experience it and choose to stay single forever?
There is absolutely NOTHING surprising about this video at all. The first kiss is ALWAYS the hottest, most intriguingly mind-numbing experience a person can share with someone else. No one knows the ‘other’ before the kiss. But afterwards…..wow! It’s exactly like a heavy drug. Nothing will ever compare to that first experience. You just keep chasing it forever….
somebody know title song from this movie?
SOKO :: We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow
http://youtu.be/KvCGzwCrjlw
Soko – We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEAPZBRkwho
SoKo – We might be dead by tomorrow.
I disagree. But I am asexual so kind of logical 😛 Kissing for me is very boring
nobody cares
Speak for yourself. I care.
Why do you watch it then?
Very well said Daniel. I would have to agree, hole hardheartedly…and agree about always chasing the feeling.
Daniel, you are so right.
i don’t want to watch anyone kiss, guy and girl, guy and guy, girl and girl, cameron diaz and brad pitt, and me and my wife. that was painful. kissing should be private.
Song playing soko- we might be dead by tomorrow
I would challenge them to hold their hang behind their back
I want to kiss a stranger! Pick me!!!
I want to kiss a stranger!!!! Pick me!!!