Kissing by Valentino

Last week I posted a video of the Latin Lover and silent screen superstar Rudolph Valentino in action. Valentino was a true artist, not like many in Hollywood today who have devalued the term art by calling themselves artists. Being in the era before sound, Valentino was adept at expressing emotions through his facial expressions. He was also the master when it came to kissing. In this video clip (the link is below) Rudy does the hand kiss which is almost a lost art.

In the country of Turkey, hand kissing is still done sometimes as a gesture of respect. A young person may go up to an older person, take their hand, kiss it, and then after kissing the hand of the older person, the younger person will take the older person's hand and touch their forehead with it. Before I got worn out with trying to exist in Turkey after living there twice briefly, I had become slightly acculturated. Several times I have done this gesture to older people I met there. Most accepted the gesture reluctantly out of humbleness, I believe. One of my friend's mischievous nephews who was about 8 even kissed my hand this way one time.

Like the previous Valentino clip that I posted last week, the producer of it has disabled embedding, so you can see the Master by clicking here.

One of the Ultimate Romantic Gestures: The Kiss! No. 2

Instead of posting a written kissing technique, I decided to present a visual post of Romantic smooching techniques by The Master. The silent screen star and the world's first sex symbol Rudolph Valentino was the sex god of 1920s Hollywood. He was The Latin Lover, the erotic and the exotic. Without disrobing and actually making love onscreen, the man's movements and behavior set the sexually repressed American female's imagination of the time on fire. Even today over 80 years after his death he still can light a few fires. How Valentino danced, moved, and kissed was tantament to actual sex for many fans. His tango dance moves were considered indecent by some. Rudy's actual love life was really not as steamy as that depicted by his characters on film. He was rejected by both of his two wives. He never saw himself as a real sex symbol or as being extraordinarily handsome as his female fans viewed him. About his appeal he once said:

"Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams."

Poor Rudy! So desired by millions of female fans he did not know, but so unlucky in love in his own personal life. His first wife locked him out their bedroom on their wedding night! Valentino did not know that she was a lesbian. His second wife left him weeping at the pier!

Embedding was not allowed on this of Valentino, so here is the link:
Rudolph Valentino--Tango Kisses

There is no French kissing here, but I think Rudy's kisses is rather more Romantic and erotic than that sort of lip locking. Look, listen, and learn from The Master!

Oh! If you look closely, at times his hand does slip. However, the object of his kisses and embrace does not flinch. I wouldn't either. ;)