Beautiful: Watch 20 Complete Strangers Kiss For The First Time (VIDEO)

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They say you will always remember your first kiss, even when you would prefer not to — mine was in the sixth grade?with a girl named Leslie, and I kissed and/or slobbered on her sometime during “Look Who’s Talking.” But how many times have you kissed a complete stranger? Emphasis on?complete. We’re not talking about a dim acquaintance?here, or some guy or girl you see around the office occasionally whose name or job title you don’t even know. We mean an absolute foreign-to-your-eyeballs individual.

Chances are good that few readers have done so. But if given the opportunity, would you make out with a stranger, knowing that this was a safe environment where no one’s emotions would get crushed, no one’s hope dashed, no consequential remorse or regret felt?

Oh, and there’s one caveat: you must be filmed on camera.

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For independent director Tatia Pilieva’s short film, “First Kiss,” the viewer is given a voyeuristic peek into what happens when 20 random couples are introduced for the first time and asked to kiss. You’d think there’d be a lot of hemming and hawing, a lot of hesitation — and don’t get me wrong, that behavior is only natural — but once each couple crosses that invisible threshold, that tacit point-of-no-return, the viewer becomes privy to some of the most sincere, passionate lip-locking ever committed to film.

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So why are these couples so quick to share such an intimate moment with a complete stranger? No doubt they’re being pressured by the camera, but beyond that, is it curiosity? A sense of adventure? Many conservatives might answer by saying “First Kiss” is even more proof that America’s youth has lost all traces of “traditional” values and instead embraced promiscuity. But what Pilieva’s film celebrates are those chance meetings two people might find themselves in, opportunities that allow them to share unhindered joy and to touch and receive tenderness from a fellow human being. Where’s the harm in that? I say let the couples kiss on.

Watch?Tatia Pilieva’s?beautiful “First Kiss” below.

FIRST KISS from Tatia Pilieva on Vimeo.

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Joseph Guyer?lives in Texas. An ad man by trade, he firmly agrees?with Bill Clinton that there is nothing wrong with America that can’t be cured by what is right with America. You can read more of his work at?Liberals Unite?and?DemoNews?and follow him on Twitter?@joerobguy.

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Joseph Guyer resides in the reddest state in the Union, a wondrous place where pick-up trucks proudly display swinging novelty testicles, fried sticks of butter are deemed safe for human consumption, and female escorts can lawfully be shot for refusing to sleep with you. He firmly agrees with Bill Clinton that there is nothing wrong with America that can't be cured by what is right with America. You can find him on Twitter @joerobguy.