https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/may/18/first-records-of-human-kissing-may-date-back-1000-years-earlier-than-estimated
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf0512
"Mesopatamian couples caught herpes simplex by kissing". Not really the most romantic way the tale could be told, is it?.
possibly not