I read over on I Like Boys Who Wear Glasses that Cosmo says you have to kiss 22 guys before you find Mr. Right.
22? Seriously? I’m not there yet. I got my first kiss when I was in 5th grade, which I’m not sure even counted. So I didn’t get my first real kiss until I was 16. I can’t believe I wasted time like that.
And all those long-term relationships? More wasted time and kisses. Geez…I could have been married years ago if only I’d puckered up more.
I just counted, and I’ve kissed 16 guys. 16.
Uh-oh…I think I just lost a follower…they probably think I’m a whore.
Anyways….Anyone want to volunteer for numbers 17-21? (There goes another follower.) Nothing serious. I just need to kiss you, so I can find Mr. Right.
I’ll even let you pick a flavor.
How old were you when you got your first kiss? Did you have to kiss 22 people to find your partner?
Favorite Comment From Last Post: “I will eat you and everything that you hold dear if you don’t let me keep my bed.”—Kerrigan Sloan
Thoughts Appear 
February 26th, 2013 at 8:58 am
Don’t worry Thoughtsy, FLEET WEEK 2013 is but a coupla months away! You can join me down at the docks, Anchor’s Away!
February 26th, 2013 at 10:27 am
hahaha!
February 27th, 2013 at 8:38 am
Count me in! Can we put a wager on it? Whoever kisses the most guys wins $20!
February 28th, 2013 at 10:33 am
I’m in!!!
February 26th, 2013 at 9:01 am
16? You are SO close! Just keep kissing. There’s gotta be a prince in there amongst the frogs somewhere. 😉
March 1st, 2013 at 10:55 am
I just realized something. Do kisses on the cheek count? I think the Renaissance Festival pirate guy kissed me on the cheek, right?
February 26th, 2013 at 9:02 am
Was always a sucker for strawberry
February 27th, 2013 at 8:38 am
Strawberry is always good!
February 26th, 2013 at 9:09 am
I’m not offering in case I get arrested, but I suspect that Cosmo is talking a lot of &*(*&^%$ and I’d ignore it if I was you. The less you look the more you find in this area. You’ll be fine. A nice girl like you
February 26th, 2013 at 9:27 am
Tax Credit #4 has agreed to kiss you if he can eat the entire tube of smores lip gloss.
February 27th, 2013 at 8:39 am
Hmmmm…That is one of my favorites. I don’t know if I can part with it.
February 26th, 2013 at 9:32 am
I don’t think kissing 16 guys makes you a whore..unless you were 17 at the time. Funny story, I kissed my first girl in Kindergarten on the playgound which was followed by a very swift slap to my face…by the Kindgarten teacher. Here…..Mwaahh! Can that count for one in the 17- 21? And does that make me a whore? Funny post Pop Tart!
February 27th, 2013 at 8:40 am
Awww…I love that you called me “Pop-Tart.”
February 27th, 2013 at 8:56 am
Sorry, I don’t know your name….We love Pop Tarts at our house for breakfast! You are real popular here..
February 27th, 2013 at 9:34 am
Some people call me Thoughtsy. But I’ll answer to anything, especially Pop-Tart.
February 26th, 2013 at 9:40 am
I don’t think I even knew 22 guys……
February 26th, 2013 at 9:40 am
And I still don’t.
February 26th, 2013 at 9:45 am
I would offer, but I’m not a guy. Or does kissing girls count double?
I’ve managed to think of 18. There may have been more who I’ve forgotten due to drunkenness. (If kissing girls DOES count double, that gets me up to the full 22!) If you’re a whore with 16, I don’t even want to know what that makes me!
February 27th, 2013 at 8:40 am
It should count as double! I’ve done that once, so that brings me up to 18.
February 26th, 2013 at 10:05 am
Whatever flavor you choose, be sure it has active anti-wart ingredients.
February 26th, 2013 at 10:30 am
Randy Strohman, spin-the-bottle in Keith O’Brien’s basement, 7th grade. He came at me with mouth wide, slobberingly open and all I could think afterwards was “yuck! THIS is what I was so worried about???”.
Of course I barely remember any of it.
February 27th, 2013 at 8:41 am
It’s stories like this that make me glad I never played Spin the Bottle.
February 26th, 2013 at 11:14 am
I’m puckering up right now – please use the slushie or vodka-flavored lip gloss.
My first kiss was at 7, but then I didn’t kiss another boy until 18! Not by choice, trust me. Man. I don’t even know if I made it to the double digits before Peppermeister, who I started dating at 21. Does this mean Cosmo is full of lies? No!!!!
February 27th, 2013 at 8:41 am
Those are the only 2 flavors I’m missing!
February 27th, 2013 at 9:42 am
Check Jules’ purse.
February 26th, 2013 at 11:22 am
I think the number is 19.4, the .4 being one time where you perform CPR on someone. My research is just as scientific as Cosmo’s.
February 27th, 2013 at 8:42 am
I’ve only performed CPR on a dummy. Does that count?
February 28th, 2013 at 10:16 am
Sure, why not.
February 26th, 2013 at 11:29 am
Good grief! I’m glad this is your blog and not mine. I have probably kissed 1000 men before finding my husbands. Yes, I said husbands (plural). And yes, I probably kissed 1000 men in between husbands. (Plural again.) But to show what a pure and virtuous wife I can be, I honestly only kissed about 10 men while I was married to any given husband. I hope nobody leaves you because of me. Signed, your slutty friend and professional bride.
February 27th, 2013 at 4:07 am
Haha! That is the best story ever.
February 27th, 2013 at 8:42 am
Love. This.
February 27th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
I think I kissed at least 22 men/boys per year since I started kissing. Kissing is fun. It is meaningless. You can kiss someone you’ll never see again. Sometimes kissing is how you figure out that you never want to see them again. WHY ARE YOU SO STINGY WITH YOUR KISSES?!?
February 26th, 2013 at 11:54 am
I think I was like 8 when I had my first kiss, and it was with my best friend. She was a girl. Ohh lala.
February 26th, 2013 at 12:07 pm
My first kiss was in high school. I was about 16 or 17. It wasn’t very good at all. It was during a Van Halen concert. I’ve only kissed two men before my husband so I wouldn’t give any thought to what Cosmo says.
February 26th, 2013 at 1:02 pm
Um, my reputation is positively tattered if 16 makes you whore-like. We’re going to skip the actual number (because we may or may not know what it is. ahem.) and go with the fact that this is rubbish – and I’m coming at it from the otherside of that 22 shaped fence, I still have no prince (a veritable pond-full of frogs though). As for my first kiss – when I was about 13, outside a bowling alley, with a guy whose name we declined to find out but who was wearing a McKenzie sweatshirt, so we named McKenzie for the rest of time.
February 27th, 2013 at 8:44 am
I guess I should have said 16 is an estimate. I may have forgotten one or two.
February 26th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Only six more to go! Don’t give up now! You have my whole-hearted, non-judgmental support! Croak croak!
February 27th, 2013 at 8:46 am
Is that a frog in your throat?
February 26th, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Wait — you’re supposed to kiss guys? That explains why I’m still single; I’ve been kissing actual frogs.
February 27th, 2013 at 9:31 am
Some frogs are cute, but most of them seem slimy. I don’t know if I could kiss a real frog…unless I was 100% sure he’d turn into a prince.
February 26th, 2013 at 3:23 pm
i am still 17 turning 18 later this year and have had my first kiss when i was 8 but i have only kiss like 10 guys in my life
February 26th, 2013 at 4:13 pm
Oh snap, Thoughtzarella. Now I have to start counting and wonder which guy was my 22. (I was a slut and kissed– not slept with– a lot of guys.). Oh shoot. I hope it was my current husband and not my last one because… yikes. That would be awkward.
February 26th, 2013 at 5:10 pm
Only 22?!?!?!?!?!?! In one year?
Umm, holy heck, I think I kissed at least that many guys just in college. And now that I’m almost 16 years outta college…….I should have been married, divorced, and re-married like 5 times over already.
February 27th, 2013 at 9:32 am
What can I say? I was a late bloomer.
February 27th, 2013 at 10:15 am
No way a criticism of you….just the article. And perhaps of myself for being a kissing whore 😉
But I suppose in a world where many, many people marry in their early 20’s, that number isn’t so off, I guess. Being single and dating/kissing for 22 years (since my first real kiss at 15. I don’t count the boys I tackled and kissed in 1st grade) has meant I’ve smooched a lot of men.
March 1st, 2013 at 10:56 am
I tend to be a serial monogamist. That appears to have been a handicap!
February 26th, 2013 at 7:09 pm
I’m ready to kiss you! Jus’ ’cause you have a lot of nice lip glosses.
And yeah, 22? That’s not a lot. Not even close. I guess I’m a bit of a kissing whore.
February 26th, 2013 at 7:19 pm
I guess I’m a boy-whore… I know I’ve kissed WAY more than 22 girls. (I wonder if the scale is different for finding a wife.) my first was during a series of spirited Spin the Bottle games when I was 13 odor 14. First non-Spin the Bottle kiss… I was 14 and it was with my first girlfriend.
February 26th, 2013 at 11:44 pm
I refuse to put any numbers on here…but I have kissed your share too. I would call bull crap on the whole thing though…just saying 🙂
February 27th, 2013 at 4:13 am
Some people out there kiss 30 or 40 or thousands of frogs, and others never kiss anyone else before they find their man. Surely Cosmo has to have taken those things into consideration, and divided by their survey number, to have come up with an average of 22. This being the case, your 16 is probably fine. Just find a friend who’s kissed 28 guys and you’ll be right.
February 27th, 2013 at 9:33 am
I’ll have to take a poll to find a friend with the right number. I really hope my 22 is Channing Tatum.
February 27th, 2013 at 5:33 am
22 guys before you find Mr. Right?! Geez, I’ve kissed like half that many. I guess that means I need to break the bad news to my husband. Evidently I’ve got a lot more research to do before I can commit for the long haul! 😉
February 27th, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Oh, man. I feel a little underexperienced now. I got a couple of henpecks before I kissed my first boyfriend on my 15th birthday, but that was my first real kiss. I think total kissers number in the single digits? Then again, I can barely remember what day it is even while looking at the calendar, so . . . I can’t really vouch for the validity of this recollection.
February 28th, 2013 at 5:41 am
Oh god someone said the less u look through more u find. Sounds like a smug married to me. The only time I’m not looking for a man is when I poop.
March 1st, 2013 at 10:57 am
BWAHAHAHAHA!
February 28th, 2013 at 11:38 pm
Good luck with all that kissing, Thoughtsy. I can’t wait for you to meet Mr. Twenty-Two and then tell us all about it. 😉
March 1st, 2013 at 4:30 am
Ha stats like that always make me laugh. But I support your kissing quest, go forth my friend and conquer!