History Main / IndirectKiss

* In the Creator/MichaelPowell film, ''The Spy in Black'', Creator/ConradVeidt lights Valerie Hobson's cigarette with his own amidst much UnresolvedSexualTension.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': When Italy tried the tiramisu from Germany and the hijiki and dried shiitake mushroom spaghetti from Japan, he had them try the food too. With the same spoons he ate from.

* ''Film/BlackWidow1987''. The federal agent and the female serial killer she's investigating meet during a scuba-diving course where they practice mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. This is the first sign of their LesYay FoeRomanceSubtext.

* The stage directions of Theatre/BugsyMalone more than once call for Bugsy to kiss his own fingertips and then press them to his {{Love Interest|s}}'s nose.

* Happened in ''Manga/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'', [[spoiler:Tamayo]] sharing out of [[spoiler:Koutarou]]'s bag of chips.

* [[ConversationalTroping Referenced by name]] during two separate instances in ''[[{{VisualNovel/Planets}} (P)lanets]]''. In the first instance, the main character shares her half-eaten sandwich with a LoveInterest; the second instance happens when a different love interest steals one of her half bitten rice balls.
* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': in Rin's route, she and Hisao share a cigarette and Hisao thinks about how they're sharing indirect kisses.

* Referenced in the first episode of ''Manga/KimiToBoku'' when the boys are at the Tea Club. Yuki tries to avoid sipping the same part of the cup that Kaname did, which causes him to mention that Kaname likely doesn't want an indirect kiss. The others think Kaname actually wanted an indirect kiss [[HoYay from Yuki]] and call him "creepy" for it.

* In ''Manga/ShugoChara'' the {{Cat boy}} Ikuto starts eating the other side of Amu's ice cream cone (Much to her dismay).

* In ''Fanfic/SpiderX'', which sees Rogue dating Peter Parker, AKA Franchise/SpiderMan, their first kiss occurs when he puts on his mask and Rogue kisses him while he's still wearing it.

* Music/HoneyWorks' "[[Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee Tokyo Summer Session]]" has Souta offer his crush, Akari, a sip of his drink when she's thirsty to invoke this trope. Akari isn't fooled, but she accepts the drink anyway.

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* The stage directions of Theatre/BugsyMalone more than once call for Bugsy to kiss his own fingertips and then press them to his {{Love Interest|s}}'s nose.

* In ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', when the Prince visits her at the start of the movie, Snow White shyly runs up to a balcony, then kisses a dove and sends it to deliver the kiss to the prince.

* A creepy version exists in ''Anime/FlameOfRecca''. While eating and licking ice cream, Fuuko encountered Soukakusai and he proceeded to snatch the ice cream, lick it and consider it an indirect kiss. Note that Soukakusai is a creepy guy who hunts after women, especially those who refused him. Fuuko was horrified even before knowing that fact.

* In ''ThisUglyYetBeautifulWorld'', Takeru's cousin Mari becomes mad after Hikari kisses him. Later, after some dwelling on it, Takeru raises his soda to his lips and finds it's empty, while Mari walks away with a hand on her lips, whispering about her minor victory.

* ''Black Widow'' (1987). The federal agent and the female serial killer she's investigating meet during a scuba-diving course where they practice mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. This is the first sign of their LesYay FoeRomanceSubtext.

* ''Manga/JunjouRomantica''. When Usagi-san calls Misaki out on his inability to express his affections for Usagi, Misaki tries this- by kissing his own hand, then slapping it over Usagi's mouth, exclaiming [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "How's that for erotic?!"]]

* In ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Ah! My Goddess]]'', while [[AboveTheInfluence under the influence of a drug that makes her more]] "aggressive", Belldandy purposefully sets up Keiichi on the verge of having an indirect kiss with her after she asks him to have a taste of his canned drink. [[MomentKiller Too bad that it spilled over.]]

* Parodied in ''VisualNovel/GakuenHeaven'': keeping up the BoysLove spirit that pervades the whole series, the whole cast that consists of varying degrees of {{bishonen}} discuss who was it that used a character's toothbrush, something that would constitute an indirect kiss of the creepy kind. Did I mention that everyone is naked in one of those HotSpringsEpisode type of situations? As it turns out [[spoiler: a cat was the culprit. Of course.]]

* In ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'' Setsuna [[SchoolgirlLesbians starts fantasizing]] when it's pointed out that making a pactio with Negi would count as an indirect kiss with [[LesYay Konoka]].

** "The Melancholy of Asahina Mikuru" story of the 6th light novel. Mikuru [[ShutUpKiss silences]] Kyon's flustered, mumbled attempts to comfort her by placing her index finger on his lips. She then slowly lifted her index finger and placed it on her own lips. While neither of them outright acknowledge it as an indirect kiss, Kyon's elated reaction and his following thoughts are very much in line with the trope.

* In the second episode of the ''VisualNovel/ToHeart2'' OVA, the sister of [[HotLibrarian Manaka Komaki]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this when Konomi swipes Takaaki's cola drink and finishes it.

** Though no one calls it an IndirectKiss outright, chapter 150 shows Aika being all blushy and hesitant at taking a drink from a bottle Wataru just offered her -- a bottle he just drank from. Naturally, oblivious Wataru does not understand why she'd be so fussy.

* ''Manga/JunjouRomantica''. When Usagi-san calls Misaki out on his inability to express his affections for Usagi, Misaki tries this- by kissing his own hand, then slapping it over Usagi's mouth, exclaiming [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "How's that for erotic?!" ]]

* In a [[AllThereInTheManual magazine based on the rock band AU]] of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Euphemia mentions how as a child, she enjoyed playing music with Lelouch - "[[SecretIdentity I mean,]] a boy who ''looked like'' Lelouch," - and they shared a harmonica. Shirley says that means they shared an indirect kiss, not realizing [[BrotherSisterIncest what that would mean]]. Since they were close as children and there was [[IncestSubtext romantic subtext]] between them, it is likely that Lelouch and Euphie did share an indirect kiss through a harmonica as kids in canon. [[PuppyLove Which is cute.]]

* In the Creator/{{Michael Powell}} film, ''The Spy in Black'', Creator/{{Conrad Veidt}} lights Valerie Hobson's cigarette with his own amidst much {{UST}}.

* ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum''. John Wick has to [[CrossingTheDesert walk out into the desert]] to meet the Elder or die trying. His DistaffCounterpart Sofia (whom he's just [[TeethClenchedTeamwork fought side-by-side with]]) looks like she's going to give what's left in her water bottle to John, only to drink it herself, use what's left to rinse out her mouth and then spit that back into the bottle which she ''then'' hands to John. Given the [[NoodleIncident ambiguous nature]] of their past history, it's either SpitefulSpit or a [[TakeThatKiss Take That]] IndirectKiss.

* The second episode of the ''Series/DueSouth'' two-parter ''Mountie on the Bounty'': Fraser gives Ray Kowalski air via mouth-to-mouth "Buddy Breathing" while underwater in a sinking ship. Although there is direct contact, this is still an IndirectKiss, as the intent was the exchange of air rather than romance. Fraser calls it "standard procedure", and when Ray asks if anything has changed between them, Fraser assures him that no, it hasn't.

* Vanessa and Ethan regularly share cigarettes and occasionally what are implied to be spliffs in ''Series/PennyDreadful''. Passing a spliff between each other was even a central part of a {{Ship Tease}} scene for the two.

* In ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'', when Akiko is about to reach OfficialCouple status with Ryuu, the IndirectKiss makes her very excited at drinking from a coffee cup that she believes he has just used.

* In ''Series/GranHotel'', Julio and Alicia cannot kiss in public because they are having a secret InterclassRomance. So, they share cigarettes and he remarks on how it is almost as if they are openly kissing.

* The stage directions of Theatre/BugsyMalone more than once call for Bugsy to kiss his own fingertips and then press them to his LoveInterest's nose.

* In the ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'' visual novel, the hopelessly shy Ryou takes a grain of rice off Tomoya's lips and eats it. When she realizes the implications, she gets so flustered that she ''runs away''. If the player tries to go for her more confident twin sister Kyou, Ryou does the same thing a few days later, but doesn't mind at all, a hint that [[spoiler:she is trying to act like Kyou.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E24AnIndirectKiss "An Indirect Kiss"]] has the eponymous indirect kiss happen between Connie and Steven, when Steven trades the rest of his juice box to Connie in exchange for letting him try on her glasses. He even admits it's mostly backwash at that point. This would seem like a footnote to the episode, which is mostly about Steven trying to gain SwissArmyTears, except [[spoiler:it turns out that he actually has healing ''[[SuperSpit spit]]'', which cures Connie's astigmatism]].

* Referenced in the first episode of ''Manga/MiracleGirls''. Noda steals a sip from Tomomi's soda and jokingly wonders if it counts as an indirect kiss.

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* A rather strange example of indirect sex occurs in Creator/JohnDonne's poem "The Flea". A man tries to get his girlfriend in the mood but she's having none of it. He pulls a tick/louse/some bloodsucking insect from his pubic hair and puts to her skin so that it feeds. He then argues that since their bodily fluids have now mixed in the tick it's like they've already had sex, so they might as well do it for real anyway, because it makes no difference. Needless to say, she squashes the tick.\\
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Of course, this is also a prime example of GetTheeToANunnery, as the poem repeatedly mentions "sucking". Back in the day, the long "s" would have resembled an "f".
* In ''Literature/ShardsOfHonor'' by Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold:
** The Hero and Heroine give CPR to another character, and at one point they have to change because her arms are tired. She has a silent ironic laugh at the "parody of a kiss"
** Done again and heartbreakingly in the same novel when the heroine decides to send the hero a physical letter rather than an electronic one because "it was as close to a touch as they could come."
* This trope is explored at some length in Longus' ''Daphnis and Chloe'', owing to the woeful sexual inexperience of the two titular characters. Being written in the 2nd century AD makes this, well, rather old.
* In Kelley Armstrong's ''Exit Strategy'', Jack smokes constantly while Nadia has quit smoking. Jack lets Nadia take puffs off his cigarette, since she won't smoke a full cig but she can rationalize sharing as not really smoking. Neither of them ever discuss it, but the third point in the love triangle notices and gets nasty towards Jack about it. After it's pointed out to her, Nadia is uncomfortable with the intimacy of sharing a cig.
* Not a straight example of this trope, but possibly an early proto-form of it: in ''[[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Rainbow Valley]]'', Rosemary West can't help but notice that Rev. Meredith put his lips on the same spot of a tree-bark-cup that she did when she drank from it earlier, and thinks about how she was told that when that happened, the destinies of the two involved will be linked together...
* In ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'' Kvothe and his love interest share an apple, which he explains is, "as close to kissing, if you've never done it before," or something to that effect.
* In ''Midnight's Children'', the narrator describes seeing a Bollywood movie that got around the conservative social conventions of the day by having the hero kiss an apple, then pass it to the heroine so that she can kiss the same spot. For the pre-teen narrator it ends up being more erotic than if they had simply kissed in the first place.
* A version of the [[Myth/CelticMythology legend of]] [[{{Atlantis}} the city of Ys]] mentions that Dahut-Ahès, the scandalous princess, makes her new-lover-of-the-evening drink from the cup she drunk from and bite from the fruit she bit from.
* Invoked and averted in ''Literature/NobleHouse'', where Quillan Gornt stubs out a cigarette given to him by his ex-mistress, because he does not want "the taint of her lips". When he said the relationship was over, he ''really'' meant it.
* In one of the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' books, a character wipes away a rogue cookie crumb from his girlfriend's mouth and then absent-mindedly licks it off his finger. The significance of this is discussed in [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2010/09/28/tf-reaching-for-the-cookie-sack/ a Slacktivist review;]]
-->''"For our protagonists and readers who come from this [[NoHuggingNoKissing no-touching-during-courtship]] subculture, Buck's actions during the Cookie Incident were bold, shocking, even risqué. Thumb to lip contact — that's ''third base!'' His thumb touched her mouth and then his own — that's almost like kissing, the sort of thing proper courtship says ought to be saved for the wedding night."''
* Lampshaded in ''The Bronze Horseman'' by Paullina Simons. Alexander offers a cigarette to Tatiana, but she refuses as she doesn't smoke. A friend of Tatiana who suspects their SecretRelationship asks, "Are you sure you don't want it? It's been in his mouth."
* Some illustrations from ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', particularly one by William Blake, show {{Satan}} as a serpent feeding Eve the ForbiddenFruit with his mouth.

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* The stage directions of Theatre/BugsyMalone more than once call for Bugsy to kiss his own fingertips and then press them to his LoveInterest's nose.
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* Played with in [[http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/bonobo-conspiracy/?i=864 this strip]] of the webcomic ''Bonobo Conspiracy''.
* Reika of Webcomic/RedString wonders if sharing a juice box can be considered an indirect kiss.

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* WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead once got kicked out of a lingerie shop because they went around touching all the crotches of the panties and insides of the bras, figuring all of them will eventually be bought and worn by hot chicks.
* Averted in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Roswell That Ends Well", in which a stereotypical 1950's diner has a sign on the door telling patrons, "One teen to a malt please."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' {{crossover}} special, [[spoiler:Holiday gives one to a comatose Agent Six by kissing the glass covering of his bed, close to his cheek.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "An Indirect Kiss" has the eponymous indirect kiss happen between Connie and Steven, when Steven trades the rest of his juice box to Connie in exchange for letting him try on her glasses. He even admits it's mostly backwash at that point. This would seem like a footnote to the episode, which is mostly about Steven trying to gain SwissArmyTears, except [[spoiler:it turns out that he actually has healing ''[[SuperSpit spit]],'' which cures Connie's astigmatism]].

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. [[ShelteredAristocrat Kaguya]] considers ''sharing earbuds'' to qualify as this.

* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "An Indirect Kiss" has the eponymous indirect kiss happen between Connie and Steven, when Steven trades the rest of his juice box to Connie in exchange for letting him try on her glasses. He even admits it's mostly backwash at that point. This would seem like a footnote to the episode, which is mostly about Steven trying to gain SwissArmyTears, except [[spoiler:it turns out that he actually has healing ''spit,'' which cures Connie's astigmatism]].