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[aroraborealis]

The kiss in question here is not a peck and not a full-on clinch, but something between. Let's say it lasts a 3-5 seconds, involves (but doesn't display) tongue, and does not involve groping, grinding, or otherwise suggestive activities, but is clearly intimate.

[Poll #1359433]

[ETA: I phrased this poll confusingly; take note that the question is whether it's INappropriate. Bad poll designer!]

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[dbang.livejournal.com]

"as long as the people around you are not uncomfortable"

how would you even know this?

Especially if by public you mean public...as in, in the presence of strangers, such as at a restaurant, in a park, etc. "Excuse me, do you mind if I kiss my girlfriend while we stand near you?"

[blk]

Exactly! You can't know, although I would say that you can have a reasonably good idea most of the time, by just going by set social standards and community rules-of-thumb. Like I mentioned above, for example, greeting places are frequently more lax about PDAs than, say, restaurants or middle-of-the-sidewalk.

Basically, my complicated-"it depends"-answer-that-would-never-be-an-option-in-rosa's-polls is: it's inappropriate if other reasonable people are made uncomfortable, but since you can't put a logical and clearly set definition on "reasonable" or "people" or "uncomfortable," you have to use social senses to choose which side of the "possibly uncomfortable" fence to err on based on surroundings, and I, personally, tend to err slightly on the "inappropriate" side.