Duggars & Wissmanns

[Miggy]

My test: Is the kiss for the benefit of the two kissing or the benefit or those watching? If it's for the benefit of those watching, ewwww.

Kissing at your children's wedding because someone told you it would make a good photo - no. Just no.

A couple kissing in a photo booth and framing the picture at home - that's definitely done for your own pleasure. Great, wonderful, don't feel you need to take the photo down. Post that photo on Facebook or Instagram, a-la Jessa Duggar, and I am going to look down at you.

I actually don't mind Jim Bob's constant need to kiss Michelle either. Not when they are at home anyway. (At political rallys, different story.) What I object to is the way he then turns to the camera and plays up on the "look, I got the sexy cheerleader" thing.

[RosyDaisy]

There is only one picture of my fiancee and I kissing that might end up on our social media. Our kiss at the alter. There will be no group kissing pictures with us in them. And we have very few selfies.

[IReallyAmHopewell]

We're not fundies, but my partner and I have two sets of photo booth pictures that show us kissing, which we have framed in our living room. (We have a LOT of framed photos around the house, not just these.) I didn't realize it was considered so tasteless...we're just an affectionate couple and these are good memories for us - we were on vacation in both sets. :shrug: Now I kind of feel self-conscious and thinking I should move them to the bedroom. :lol:

I'm not great with any p.d.a. That doesn't mean nothing or never. But I think it's fine in the bedroom, I think a kissing wedding photo on a table is just fine. I'm not crazy about huge canvas prints of the couple gulping each others tongues taking up the majority of the wall I'm forced to look at from where I'm sitting, but it IS your house..... I AM sick-to-death of teenagers posting photos that are just this side of porn though and other teens saying "so cute." Cute is not the word I'd choose!

I do think it's odd that the Duggars have apparently had written into their contracts one (or more) gulping kiss per couple per episode. Blech...that crap is why I never liked soap operas..... Really not modest. Doesn't matter if you are married. Makes a totally mockery of their message.

[NoneandDoneinCali]

It's not the kissing itself, it's the sheer volume and awkwardness of it. Like, most wedding photographers are going to get a "first kiss" (real or staged) picture. It's symbolic. Sometimes a candid kissing picture is cute. I have one from when the guy I'm dating now and I were giddy teenagers and first dating (17 years ago). It's small and on my fridge with a magnet :lol: But if your entire repertoire is contrived shots of you sucking face - gross.

Guess what! I am sexually active! Would everyone like to see proof? No????? Well, here it is (repeatedly) anyways! That's what those pics scream to me.

Also, those guys look like sloppy, SLOPPY kissers. Like, literally swapping spit, which most people learn not to do by trial and error. I am grossing myself out now. :o

[IReallyAmHopewell]

. Sometimes a candid kissing picture is cute. But if your entire repertoire is contrived shots of you sucking face - gross.

Guess what! I am sexually active! Would everyone like to see proof? No????? Well, here it is (repeatedly) anyways! That's what those pics scream to me.

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Exactly! All the Pinterst Boyfriend pictures--blech!!!

[DuggarsTheEndIsNear]

I really don't have a problem with people posting pictures of themselves kissing, even if they're kissing near other couples. But, then, kissing significant others was something that always happened in my family and my circle of friends. My parents kissed in front of me, both sets of grandparents kissed in front of me, all my aunts and uncles kissed in front of me, one of my aunts kissed all the boyfriends I knew about in front of me. And, I've never had a problem showing affection towards my boyfriends regardless of the "audience," unless it would be inappropriate (like if someone was dealing with a break up or something, but then I'd keep my boyfriend away just out of respect). I have also never had a problem with my friends showing affection towards their boyfriends/girlfriends in front of me (which they never shied way from).

The only time I find kissing pictures annoying or inappropriate is if they're of people who are just hooking up, if one or both people is completely plastered, or if it's the only type of picture the person takes.

[thoughtful]

We interrupt this thread about PDA for a musical interlude about disgusting icky-sticky baby talk:

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