I feel too ashamed to ask my friends how to go about it. Perhaps you can help me learn without my feeling completely stupid. For a first kiss, how big do you go? I mean, do you give a small peck on the lips and just see where it takes you?
-- Kissing Blues

Dear Dr. Andrea,
What is the best way to kiss my girlfriend? Please tell me the steps to kissing. Thank you.
-- Kissing Conscious

Dear Dr. Andrea,
I have no idea what to do when it comes to kissing!!! Send me absolutely everything thing there is about how to kiss. Thanks!
-- Afraid to Kiss

Dear Dr. Andrea,
I've never kissed a guy before and I am wondering, how do you kiss? I get the part where you kiss on the lips ... but the tongue? It sounds scary. How do you French kiss without shoving your tongue down his throat or *yikes* drooling?
-- Embarassed

Dear Dr. Andrea,
I have never really kissed anybody before. I am seeing this guy that I like. We have been out a few times and I figured that before long I would want to kiss him anyway. He is kind of shy, like me, and has only kissed one person. There wasn't any tongue involved either. So I was just wondering, when I feel that I want to kiss him, since he is shy too, do I just kind of peck him on the cheek or like French kiss?? I really don't know, but I think this probably will be coming up soon...
-- Kissing Confused

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