My bad kissing poll (“What’s the worst kind of kiss?”) had some interesting results, in that there was no clear winner! I used the WordPress plugin to create this poll, and I can’t figure out how to close the poll, so these are the results as of today (November 30, 2008).

• Sloppy: 15% (2 votes)
• Tongue down your throat: 23% (3 votes)
• Lizard tongue: 15% (2 votes)
• Spastic kissing: 23% (3 votes)
• Other: 23% (3 votes) Responses included “Aggressive.”

Apparently, wet, dry, and noisy aren’t really big issues for people when it comes to kissing. Personally, I hate noisy kisses, but it seems that I am not alone in having fairly traumatic experiences with people who tongues went a bit too far down the throat. (I’d really like to find out what’s appealing for the tongue-thruster in this kind of kiss. Because I just don’t get it. It seems to me that’d you’d risk pulling a muscle or something.)

Spastic kissing also tied for first. Both of these responses are kind of encouraging, because sticking one’s tongue down a partner’s throat or kissing spastically is not really necessary (both seem like behavior someone learns from watching movies) and is controllable.

Roodle made a really good point in the comments: “I think it’s actually easier to talk about what you want in sex than it is in kissing, since kissing comes when you don’t know each other well.” I’d add, too, that there’s something really personal about kissing that makes it hard to give feedback. Plus, sex has an end goal in mind. It’s OK to give feedback in order to help reach that goal in a faster or more enjoyable way (or just get there, period). But kissing is all about the act in and of itself. Kristin wondered (as I’m sure many of us have) if you should dump someone who’s a bad kisser.

I think part of the problem with this poll, though, is that the choices weren’t quite right. Sloppy and wet are kind of related, for example. Ah well, time to drum up an idea for tomorrow’s poll, since I fell off the wagon last week. (Between being sick, playing two gigs in three days, wrapping up my job last Wednesday, and preparing to start a new one tomorrow, I’ve been a bit short on time.)