From figuring out the right amount of tongue to use to remembering to breathe, there's a lot that goes into how to French kiss. Whether it's your first time or 1,th French kissing is an art—you can always improve your technique. Whether your looking for a basic outline of how to French kiss or pro tips to take your make out game to the next level, we've compiled the ultimate guide to French kissing, with expert tips from sex therapists and dating experts.

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If you're new here, you may want to get my discreet newsletter to learn how to make your lover sexually obsessed with you and only you. Click here to get it. It's free. It's discreet. Kisses are like snowflakes- no two are the same. You can kiss a different person every day, or the same person every day and it will always be a unique feeling.
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My first French kiss was my very second kiss—which was intentional, because I was dying to rid my kissing-with-tongue virginity before the 8th grade. But that's about it. I share this to reassure you that basically no one remembers the optics of their first solid makeout session, because everyone is equally terrified going into it. That doesn't mean you can't prepare! Here's a step-by-step guide to polite and good French kissing, with advice straight off the tongues of French women themselves even if none of them really know why this kiss is labeled as French to begin with.
Skip navigation! Story from Fertility Diaries. Erika W. Make kissing even more of a turn-on by leveling up and adding French kissing to your repertoire. While it might sound complicated, French kissing is just kissing with tongues.