Issues of physical contact taken to a logical extreme. The surprise is when someone is offered food or drink by someone they like, then realizes that swapping spit residue is apparently somewhat similar to a kiss, indirectly. Bizarrely enough, a form of this notion, the sharing of a drinking glass with a lover as an intimate act, appears in a treatise on romance by the Roman poet Ovid, making this Older Than Feudalism. See also Sweetheart Sipping, Date Crepe. Examples of Indirect Kiss include: