A kiss is not just a kiss — The Anti-Kissing Movement“It is time to declare war on kissi

A kiss is not just a kiss — The Anti-Kissing Movement“It is time to declare war on kissing and I am willing to go on record as firing the first gun.”—Dr. Anna Hatfield, 29th of December, 1900The anti-kissing movement was a real progressive movement founded around the late 1800’s and lasting up to around the late 1920’s.  They often worked hand-in-hand with the temperance movement ( wanted to ban alcohol) and the growing number fundamentalist Christian groups around the turn of the century.  Most anti-kissers formulated their opinions on moral grounds, especially with the perceived breakdown of traditional Christian/American values during the post-world war I era and the roaring 1920’s.  For many kissing was held in the same view as traditional sex, only to be done between a married man and woman.  Others believed that kissing should be restricted for those under a certain age.One vocal opponent of kissing was Dr. Anna Hatfield, a member of the local Women’s Christian Temperance Union, who made both health and moral arguments against the “barbarous and unsanitary custom”.  She declared kissing to be worse than drinking and a practice only to be conducted between betrothed couples.  She went further to pronounce that kissing between married couples should only be done once a day, and only after thoroughly cleansing the mouth with soap or disinfectant.  She also makes clear, “As for the moral bacteria, that is even more dangerous. Girls are not taught to view a kiss with awe, as they once were. Mothers of today are to blame for imbuing their children with the kissing vice. Many children are literally kissed to death.”Unlike many other social progressive movements such as Women’s Suffrage groups, the Temperance Movement, and other moral crusaders, the anti-kissers never became very popular, being seen as a bit extreme and radical.  By the late 1920’s and 1930 the anti-kissing movement had died out. -- source link

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