Kissing as a romantic sense of expression is believed to have begun in India, where an epic poem called the "Mahabharata" -- believed to have been written about 1000 BCE -- included history's first recognizable descriptions of romantic kissing. "She set her mouth to my mouth and made a noise that produced pleasure in me," the poem said. Historians believe that at the time, romantic kissing was unknown in the rest of the world, and that it was brought to Europe by Alexander the Great.
