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In other parts of the world it would appear that the kiss sometimes has a sacred or ritual character. Thus, according to Rev. J. Macdonald (Journal of the Anthropological Institute, November, 1890, p. 118), it is part of the initiation ceremony of a girl at her first menstruation that the women of the village should kiss her on the cheek, and on the mons veneris and labia.

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Journal of the Anthropological Institute, August and November, 1898, p. 107.

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Velten, Sitten und Gebraüche der Suaheli, p. 142.

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