Greet one another with a holy kiss<\/em>” (II Corinthians 13:12). If there are holy kisses, then it implies there are some forms of kissing that is unholy.<\/p>\nTouching the genitals of another person is generally considered to be a sexual act (we have to make allowance for medical practice and parents washing their children). To find out that your wife was allowing someone to touch her sexually would be rightly upsetting. And to find out your husband was involved in a deep passionate kiss with another woman would be equally upsetting.<\/p>\n
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with giving your girlfriend a quick hello or good-bye kiss, but deep passionate kisses that leave you sexually aroused and nearly out of your mind are at best dangerous waters for two people who are not married to each other.<\/p>\n\t
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Thank you that answered my questions perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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