International Kissing Day Jul 6, 2023

International Kissing Day

This photograph captures a heartwarming moment between two southern rockhopper penguins, the perfect image for International Kissing Day. Why do we kiss? Well, dozens of cultures don"t kiss on the lips at all. For those that do, theories range widely, from the chemical reactions in the brain, to ancient ancestral parents chewing food for their children, to simply smelling each other. Of course, no scientific explanation can capture the magic of a shared kiss. Perhaps that"s why artists including Prince, Faith Hill, and Hall & Oates have all had chart-toppers about lip-locking; they have found a way to put an indescribable feeling into words.

© Tony Beck/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Jul 6, 2018Pandas pucker up for International Kissing Day
Jul 6, 2019Racers pushing past sunflowers in the 2018 Tour de France
Jul 6, 2020Welcome to the Ring of Fire
Jul 6, 2021The most Instagrammable bird?
Jul 6, 2022Kissing Day
Jul 6, 2025Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California
Jul 6, 2026Syracuse, Sicily, Italy

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Dec 21, 2019Seventeen arches at sunset
Aug 9, 2026International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
Jul 7, 2026Plate-billed mountain toucan with orchids, Ecuador
Mar 5, 2019Stompin’ with the Big Chief
Feb 20, 2023Presidents Day
Jun 11, 2019Installation art turns heads
Apr 12, 2025International Day of Human Space Flight
Mar 12, 2019The otherworldly red river
Jul 21, 2020Belgium celebrates its independence
Jun 5, 2019Happy trees = Clean air
Sep 11, 2020In honor of those we ve lost
May 14, 2021A misty morning in Brazil
Jun 24, 2018The Twin Cities celebrate Pride
Aug 30, 2020Hay, what s up?
Apr 11, 2021The mountain of 30,000 sakura
Aug 31, 2022Blue linckia sea stars in Papua New Guinea
Sep 4, 2023Labor Day
Apr 9, 2023Happy Easter!
Mar 13, 2022Daylight saving time
Feb 11, 2019There’s a dog in there somewhere
Jun 24, 2022Cenote near Puerto Aventuras, Mexico
Aug 29, 2024Castellfollit de la Roca, Catalonia, Spain
Nov 8, 2022Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Feb 28, 2022Winter in England s Cotswolds
Nov 19, 2023Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve, Estonia
Jan 5, 2022National Bird Day
Mar 24, 201930 years after Exxon Valdez
Apr 15, 2018The ‘Living Forest’ in Biscay, Spain
May 22, 2019The artists come to Venice
Sep 25, 2019Chilling out in the Arctic