The first kiss in a movie was William Heise's silent film "The Kiss," released in 1896.
When May Irwin and John C. Rice locked lips, Chicago publisher Herbert S. Stone called the 47-second film "absolutely disgusting," and called for "police interference."
And slowly through the 1900s, America normalized through, what social scientists call, "the creeping cycle of desensitization."
In other words, little by little, we "get over it."
Yecch.
Posted by: KarenW | March 27, 2007 at 10:04 PM