Kissing Statistics

My significant other saw a kissing statistic recently that got me thinking – because, of course, it’s about kissing and I spend a lot of time thinking, talking and doing on that subject.

The stat was that the average person spends 20,000 minutes kissing during their lifetime.  I suppose that could be a lot or a little depending on your life span.  So, if we consider that kissing may start in our teens – let’s say “Sweet Sixteen and never been kissed” is now out of date – and we use 14 for the begin date (arbitrary I know, but I’m writing this and can make the decisions), then I see that as not much kissing.  It sounds like a lot but if you do some quick, well okay not so quick, calculations, it can add up to a very low percentage of your life as you age.

My research shows that there are 525,600 minutes in a year.  If you take that number times your age, adjusted for the above start date, and then divide the 20,000 minutes by that number, you’ll find it’s a pretty low percentage.  Of course, that’s if we fit into the statistical average of 20,000 minutes of kissing in our lifetime.

Another way to look at this is to break it into hours.  Let’s do that.  It would be 333 hours spent kissing, but that’s still the same percentage once you do all the calculations.  It’s just how you look at numbers.  Does 20,000 minutes sound like a lot, or does 333 hours sound like more.  Either way, in my calculations, I have only spent .08% of my lifetime kissing.  Now that sounds like a low number. 

I suppose I could continue these calculations but I’ll stop because it’s making me crazy.  All I know is that I think I need to get back to kissing!  Hey baby, where are you?