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08:14 February 22nd, 2006

French kiss? Your spray or mine?

Posted by: Robert Basler
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There is good news for you folks who plan to swap saliva with total strangers at Brazil’s decadent Carnival festivities coming up soon.

A special spray is being marketed to fight germs in mouths that expect to be visited by large numbers of tongues in a short period of revelry. The spray is called Beije, or Kiss, and the sales slogan? “Kiss a lot, kiss pleasurably, kiss safe.”  Here’s the story:            

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A couple of Carnival revelers kiss during the Ipanema Band street party as others mill about, in Rio de Janeiro, January 5, 2005. REUTERS/Rickey Rogers

3 comments so far

Thats’s a great idea. Spray the person you’re going to kiss. Very romantic. Why not put in some insecticide just in case? Or a large plastic bag. I think that the human sized condom is getting closer.

Anyway, where can I get this spray?

I write for Linkadelic Magazine, you can too.

- Posted by CoMagz

So what’s wrong with kimchi mouthspray? Last week it was out killing bird flu, is kimchi this week’s chopped liver?

- Posted by Debra of Culiblog

Those ones who ever been in Salvador’s street carnival in Brazil knows that this spray is a very good and useful invention. Brazil’s decadent street carnival? Well probably the reporter doesn t fit the brazilian standards of beauty…and he will probably never use a spray like this.

- Posted by Alex Kuhn

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