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Lessons in lip service Carolina Productions volunteers demonstrate 30 ways to pucker up during ‘The Art of Kissing’ PHOTO BY COREY GARRIOTT/THE GAMECOCK Justin Kuhns and Carly Jackson demonstrate the upside-down kiss, which speaker Michael Christian calls “strangely erotic.” Graduate of the exclusive Jane Riddle Institute of Electrology in Modesto, California Only 3 things are permanent: Death, Taxes and Electrolysis 2817 Devine St. » Ste. 15 * Columbia, SC 29205 * (803) 779-8790 | I-1 50* OFF To Celebrate For the month of February ALL BBQ sandwiches, baskets & dinners are half price! Bring your family... tell your friends!. mauricesbbq.com *menu items only. $60 limit 79 I .5887 USC's Largest and Closest Vera Bradley Boutique —iiiiMim i mii'i'iin . i ip i in piimMin iiiiiniiiiiiiii Prfetty ’in Pink BY COREY GARRIOTT THE GAMECOCK “Freud said kissing is a perver sion because it’s not, strictly speaking, necessary,” said Michael Christian, who believes instead that kissing is an art. How do you perfect an art? “Profile position!” Christian or dered his performers, six Carolina Productions volunteers who brought their love lives to stage. “Now, close your eyes and cry.” “When you do, kiss each eye,” he said. The audience giggled, but in awe. Few performers have the nerve to trot taboos on stage for all the world to see. Fewer still al low the audience to zoom in close to watch six performers play ton sil hockey. “I want you to be comfortable,” he said. “I don’t want you to be like — I didn’t see liposuction,” one of the 30 kisses on display last Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Russell House Ballroom. “This is your op portunity. It’s just a little lip ac tion — it’s subtle, subtle lip ac tion.” “Liposuction is where two peo ple together kiss and suck on the bottom lip vigorously,” said Jon Serpas, a second-year English stu dent. He demonstrated liposuction with his partner Meghan Sturgis, a second-year psychology student. The performers demonstrated how to detect a flirt and return one. They showed where pleasure areas are located — or, barring that, how to locate someone’s fa vorite spot while avoiding the crassness of asking. “Men? Did you know that a kiss that is twice as arousing is on her ears?” he said. “Profile position! Kiss her ear,” he ordered, and they obeyed. Though his bluntness evoked laugher, it also got the job done ef ficiently. If you don’t know where to kiss someone, he said, “find out with the sliding kiss.” “Always observe their reaction” as your Ups meander along the con tours of your chosen one,” he said. “Can you talk when you’re kiss ing?” he said. “Yeah, if you talk into their mouth.” But some relationships are get ting old and kissing isn’t arous ing anymore. "Let’s say you’re in a long-term college romance — al most three weeks,” he said. “Girls, rub your body against him. Oh, how can he resist? Up. And down.” He bagged Justin Kuhns and Jon Serpas in a pair of red tongue suits and put on goggles to ex plore the dynamics of French kissing. To French kiss, if you’re won dering, one shouldn’t start by shoving one’s tongue completely into another’s mouth. Apparently, jousting is a common mistake. Rather, partners should start with the tips of their tongues and move inward, resulting in a slow, wet, sensual massage. Christian taught English at Boston University before writing his best seller, “The Art of Kissing.” He’s taken the book on an epic tour of more than 400 stops, all the while trying to make life more interest ing. “There’s an eternity before us and after us,” Christian said. “You have to live intensely.” Those who might be too scared to try his techniques might miss out on some of the adventures of life. Adventures, for instance, like Christian’s favorite, the American kiss. “It’s intimate, and yet people can see you. It’s supremely ro mantic,” he said. The American kiss requires a car and some dangerous passion. The girl straddles the guy in the driver’s seat — while he’s driving. It’s probably recommended for ♦ KISSING, SEE PAGE 7 PHOTOS BY COREY GARRIOTT/THE GAMECOCK ) Top: Jon Serpas, kneeling on the left, and Justin Kuhns, on the right, wear tongue suits to show what a French kiss should look like from the inside of a mouth. Above: Kuhns and Carly Jackson show the proper response to flirtation, according to Christian. Foftowmg the movie, there wfll be a \/Tj' discussion period. The movie apart of jp celebrating Biack Wstory month. ****0*4' \ RH Ballroom Tonight, 7pm Cinematic Arts Commission www.sa.sc.edu/cp < PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK The annual exhibition of student art will continue until Feb. 21 In the McMaster Gallery. : HANNAH JANE'S ! 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I In the 2-D category, Jessica I Bradley’s “MA,” Rob McAdams' I “Buffin Boxers: Penguin” and Julie Jacobson’s “Patient Persons” won first, second and third places, respectively. • The Student Art Exhibition I will continue until Feb. 21 at j I McMaster Gallery, at 1615* I Senate St. Gallery hours are I Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m., I Comments on this story?E-mail j gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com . Lottery February 20, 2003 Priority Reservations Lottery 2nd Floor Lobby Russell House February 20, 2003 9:00 A.M. - 1st Ballroom Date 10:00 A.M. - 2nd Ballroom Date For more information, contact the Event Services Office at 777-7127 or stop by ,, Russell House 218 Russell House University Union Priority Reservations Deadlines FaU 2003 Carolina Productions.by February 18, 2003 (See STAF 3.25 Policy at www.sc.edu/policies/staf/staf325.html) ' Registered Student Organizations.by February 20, 2003 (See STAF 3.25 Policy at www.sc.edu/policies/staf/staf325.html) Other.after February 24, 2003 (See STAF 3.25 Policy at www.sc.edu/policies/staf/staf325.html) NOTE: Academic Space will not be reserved until September 2003 Because of high demand for space in the Russell House a lottery system is used to ensure equal distribution of space to registered student organizations. The highest level of demand is for Ballroom reservations, however, the lottery system will apply to aU reservable spaces in the Russell House. ,