[Poll] When noses collide ...

[dancefloorlandmine]

Following on from a musing about kissing, which way do you tilt your head when approaching a kiss? Towards your right shoulder or your left? Or do you just plunge on ahead, upright as the Titanic, until you collide with your partner?

[Poll #718007]

For the ambidextrous, please answer referring to your more dominant hand - eg the one you would write with or pick up a pint with.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

I really follow my partner's lead here -- or anti-follow. Agh. Nose-avoidance tilting. Think about it and you will miss and crush someone's delicate face.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Aye, don't I just know it.
So you're saying that you always stop and check which way the other person is going before you lean in? You don't have a "default setting"?

[steer.livejournal.com]

Well, I think I prefer right.

[rich-r.livejournal.com]

I do the same - usually to the right, but depending on circumstance, I might go the other way if that is suitable for both parties...

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

He doesn't lean in. He swoops.

[lost-house.livejournal.com]

sometimes, i tilt left but almost always end up rotating via a bit of node bumping to the right...

i'm think about this too much, must stop making faces at my monitor before work mates start looking at me funny :)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

But do you usually tilt right other than those few bizarre "heading left" problems?
As for the "making faces" thing ... [snork]

[lost-house.livejournal.com]

oh, right tilt is the default. the left tilt occasions are not a 'problem' per say either, you just end up in a kiss that feels subtly different & the twist occurs without too much awkwardness.

of course, if we are both standing up, my height means that i'm almost always tilting my head upward (usually significantly upward:) so it's more of a nose brush during the twist than a nose clash :)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

[grin] Memory suggests it's not so much your height that is the issue but someone else's ...

[lost-house.livejournal.com]

my height is perfect, my feet reach the floor & everything. my apparent preference* for the taller members of the population shows a distinct lack of planning though...

*i don't think of myself as having a "type" but track record seems to suggest there is a definite bias :)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Possibly a need for a natty portable and discreet step-ladder, Casanunda style?

[lost-house.livejournal.com]

steps are my friend :) that or dragging the person in question down to my level...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I can't see anyone complaining about being dragged down by you!

[misthawk.livejournal.com]

I'm generally I right-tilt girl, but I can be flexible considering the circumstances. }:)

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Upright, Inuit-style.

[reddragdiva]

I only know I consistently tilt to the left because I consistently knock Arkady's nose stud out!

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously considering changing back to the nosering; at least you couldn't knock that out!

The litle pink stud just looks more feminine. :-/ Oh well. Maybe I need to find a nice pink titanium CBR....

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

There are many variables, mostly what direction you are coming from. If you are coming at an oblique angle it will tend to dictate the tilt of the head. This is exacerbated by the fact that women [*] are generaly a lot shorter than me, so there is invariably a leaning over process involved. Available space and orientation will tend to determine how the leaning works, which in turn dictates the tilt. Can't say I have any particular policy on this one.

[*] Just to clarify, when I say women plural I am very much talking in the past tense :o)

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

I think I pretty much tilt to the right but it depends who it is and whether I'm wearing my glasses or not. *grin*

I'm more or less ambidextrous as well, hmm...

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

I actually have no idea (and am now going to look very strange in the office as I mime pretend snogging). I could always do a poll for the people who have kissed me to fill in to find out whether I have a left-tilt or right-tilt bias, but that might get silly.

Anyway, what's wrong with rubbing noses?

[mooism.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but people always seem to find it a bizarre habit of mine.

[zeke-hubris.livejournal.com]

I'm not really ambidextrous, but I also don't have a side I favour when tilting my head. I tend to go for the opposite one to my partner :-)

[incy.livejournal.com]

I am ambidextrous and have nosense of balance :)

[juliet]

Thinking about it, a social consensus *should* occur, unless everyone's naive default (the one they go in for their first kiss with) is evenly balanced (exactly 50% each way).

Pete is wondering whether it's to do with which side of your brain controls what.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I tilt to the right unless I can see my partner is already tilting their head, in which case I go straight.

This method doesn't work around Diva, because he tilts left whilst I go right so we bonk noses - or else I go straight and he still knocks my nosestud flying!

[swiftangel.livejournal.com]

I'm female ambidextrous (slightly dominant right hand) but tilt my head equally to the left and right... though I do generay always tilt my head.

[vampwillow]

er ... I go both ways ;-P

(had to stop and think, but I don't think I have a direction I impose upon someone else unilaterally ... indeed I don't think it remains in one direction through the, er, "encounter" either ;-P

female, ambidextrous, right-hand favoured for some things, left-hand favoured for other things

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Both - or you get a sore neck on one side and wander round the day after leaning to one side, shrugging occasionally and looking vacant.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's what my problem is!

[rabhairt.livejournal.com]

i'm female, short, and i tilt my head UP!

[silenttex.livejournal.com]

There's no option for "I don't have a default preference". (Though at my height the default tilt is DOWN)