Kissing and getting sick

[Nanareed]

I'm single.

I've been on a few dates.

I've properly kissed two men in the last year. With tongues.

Tongues is always the mens choice. I'm not really a fan of using tongues. I prefer to just kiss lips to lips. But the men always want to do it.

Both times that I have kissed a guy with tongues in the last year,

I got really, really sick for a week afterwards. I was constantly coughing , I had a burning sore throat and a fever. Amd I was sneezing

Obviously I picked up some infection or something fron both men

It made me think, how safe is kissing really?

We are touching tongues, tongues are probably full of harmful bacteria from food. Especially if the person hasn't brushed their teeth or cleaned their mouth at all afterward.

Touching tongues has become normalised, but when you think about it, it's a strange and unhygienic thing to do.

The next time a man asks me, I'm saying no!

You could have got just as ill just kissing lips tbh. You also could easily, and coincidentally, become ill by travelling on public transport or touching the door handle in costa then eating a brownie without washing your hands though, but I agree, I’m not a huge fan of tongues these days.

I don't think you'd get just as ill from kissing lips.

If you think about it, when we eat food, the food doesn't touch our lips at all.

Glandular feaver is called the kissing disease.
The food doesn’t need to touch your lips for you to get ill, the germs would be taken in by the mucus membrane in the mouth as you chewed it.