how to kiss

In my youth girls and boys used to practice kissing a lot.
Didn't seem so important for boys to perfect the skill so they mostly relied on using their own arm and party games such as postman's knock and then a few short relationships...

Girls also began by kissing their own arms and having the benefit of lipstick would also kiss a mirror and often in pairs with a close friend they would practice on each other from hello and goodbye pecks on cheek or lips to all manner of deeper types of kissing when in private...
Girls tended to take things more seriously by carrying out further research by watching romantic movies...

The first rule of kissing is don't ever get confused - the right sort of kiss for the circumstances: while open-mouth tongue-out kissing at a family gathering might win over an uncle or two it is almost certain to cause a maiden aunt to at least raise an eyebrow...

Lots of people of all ages have very serious doubts about their kissing skills but generally nature knows best - begin with a chaste kiss (lips closed and only slightly puckered), draw away and take a breath and lean in again with more puckering of the lips to kiss with a little more vigour and for a little longer, repeating the process until it seems right to part the lips a little...

Kissing isn't a competition and traditionalists would say it isn't "nice" to deep-kiss or french-kiss on a first date or early in any date - such things being reserved for more intimate moments and for the bedroom. Most would say if it feels right then allow it to happen...

Even experienced people often have doubts about their kissing prowess because a "kissing style" develops between two people in a relationship and when with a new partner there can still be a few embarrassing moments with clashes of teeth or the shock of an unwanted or unexpected tongue...
It takes a little time to get used to a new partner and learning to kiss all over again is part of the fun...