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Oakwood Kiss Competition to Celebrate National Kissing Day
Pulses soared even higher than usual at Oakwood Theme Park on Friday 6th July as visitors were encouraged to take part in a Most Imaginative Kiss competition to celebrate National Kissing Day.
Visitors to the theme park were challenged to come up with the most imaginative kiss of the day and capture the kiss on camera. Oakwood Managing Director Paddy McNamara judged the entries of the most imaginative kiss and the winners, Leanne and Aaron Freeman from Pontypridd, were crowned Oakwood’s Kissing King and Queen and awarded a Royal Ticket, which allows free entry into the park for a full day.
A photographer was at the park between 12pm and 2pm to catch the romantic kisses of amorous couples. Visitors were also being encouraged to take matters into their own hands and snap their own most unusual kiss during their day at the theme park and upload the pictures and contact details onto the Get Involved section of the Oakwood website at www.oakwoodthemepark.co.uk
Paddy McNamara, Managing Director at Oakwood Theme Park said: “Theme parks are perfect places for celebrating National Kissing Day. Our roller coasters are designed to get pulses racing at the best of times, and adding a kiss into the mix with someone who gets your heart fluttering can only add to the pleasure and excitement of the whole experience.
Kissing is scientifically proven to make you happy because puckering up is said to release the hormone oxytocin. If you mix this with the adrenaline rush of riding a roller coaster we believe you have a winning formula!”
Top 10 Kissing Facts
The average person spends 336 hours kissing in a lifetime.
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Our brains have special neurons that help us find each other’s lips in the dark.
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A simple kiss uses two muscles, the upper and lower orbicularis otis surrounding the lips. A passionate kiss uses all 34 facial muscles.
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If you’re trying to lose weight, kissing can help you burn as much as 600 calories per hour.
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The practice of a man kissing his wife at the end of the day started with the ancient Romans. The gladiators wanted to taste their ladies’ lips to make sure they hadn’t been drinking the homemade wine all day!
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Husbands who kiss their wives before leaving home in the morning have been documented to live five years longer than those who do not.
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Fifty per cent of people have their first kiss before their 14th birthday.
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Scientific studies have proven that kissing can help reduce skin rashes and blemishes.
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The world’s longest kiss lasted for 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds.
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The scientific name for kissing is philematology.
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