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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!]

Comments

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

This exactly.

I tend toward thinking it's acceptable and appropriate and fine, but there are plenty of 'public' circumstances where it's *in*appropriate.

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

Yes.

And. . . to me, there's a difference between "the people who see this are casually glancing," like you'd expect at an airport, and "I expect people to be looking at me specifically for other reasons," like at work or in front of the register at a cafe'. That is, how socially signified is "looking away"?