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Nothing that exciting, I'm sure you could do better.  Anyway, it was a plot concocted by her husband and myself at her 50th birthday party.  She was wearing a halter neck dress and she was encouraging men to kiss her up the arm, apparently an old party piece of hers.  Her husband suggested "I think our young friend would like a turn" so she strode over to me and offered her bent arm.  I obediently slid my lips along it, but what she didn't know was that I had an ice cube in my mouth which I released when I reached her shoulder...my, you should have heard her squeal!  Bit tame I know...but can anyone do any better??  [;-)]

We've heard very little in the way of actual hand kissing so I thought I would relate my actual introduction to it.  I was about 15 and she about 40..aha, seduction by an older woman?  No that's not quite the way it happened... We had just moved house, and my dad called me down from my room to meet the new neighbors who they had asked round for a drink.  I shook the guy's hand and went to shake the woman's, but she dangled her hand palm down virtually under my nose.  I took it and shook it limply, and she said "aren't you going to kiss my hand?"  I accomplished the manoeuvre reasonably well, in view of the fact that I was highly embarassed and was rewarded by cheers from those present.  She hadn't been drinking, she was just a natural flirt.  I got my own back on her...but that's another story! [6]

Point taken, Twinkle - as I said it's something that one has to be very careful about.  I've broken all the "rules" but somehow have avoided getting my face slapped! [:D]

No Simone, no tongues allowed for Platonic kisses!  I have done some research into hand kissing, and have assembled the following "Rules": 1.  The lady must be known to the man. 2.  The meeting must not take place in a public place (with the exception of the theatre, restaurant, opera or horse races). 3.  The lady must be married. 4.  It is up to the lady to initiate the kiss by offering her hand palm down. 5.  The man should bnd over the lady's hand, not raise it to his lips. 5.  The lips should not touch the hand but hover over it (similar to the "thumb" business). 6.  Never attempt to kiss a gloved hand. 7.  Never use the hand kiss as a prelude to running a chain of kisses up the lady's arm. All these rules may be broken where circumstances allow, but it doesn't give you the right to grab the hand of the first lady who comes along and kiss it - remember the act of hand kissing is going "where angels fear to tread"!  

[quote user="Catalpa"] S'not polite to kiss "A Lady's" hand... the man (or woman, let's not make assumptions) is supposed to hold his / her thumb over the back of The Lady's hand and kiss that. No bodily fluids should be deposited on the skin of "The Lady". Hope that helps. [:D] [/quote] That doesn't sound like much fun!  Have I been doing it wrong all this time?  On the occasions that I have kissed a lady's hand, I have lightly kissed the back of her hand between the knuckles and the wrist, so there is physical contact but no "slobbering"!  

One always seems to associate France with "le baisemain" - the hand kiss, a quaint and charming custom in my view.  My wife and I didn't see much of it during our recent visit to the south of France, except a wine waiter who always used to greet her that way - in fact when he got to know us better he allowed himself to wander up her arm!  I wasn't bothered, it was meant as humour, not eroticism.  Sadly, I fear that the custom has now gone out of fashion.  Does anyone have any amusing stories about hand (or arm!) kissing?