Sometimes a kiss between two characters isn't sexy enough. So what do you do to spice it up? Just make it a lot messier and make it clearer that fluids are being swapped with a spit trail. When the two subjects separate from their kiss, you see a strand of saliva between the two in order to make the kiss at least a little bit more explicit.
A few
Hentai have this trope, often leaving it ambiguous if the trail is of spit or...
something else.
Definitely a
Your Mileage May Vary on how sexy the act actually is. Looks similar to
Phlegmings, yet characters who show one of these will rarely show the other.
Examples:
Animated Films
- Leon and Lashawn have a first kiss like this in Bebe's Kids.
Anime and Manga
Film
- The infamous kiss from Cruel Intentions was one of these as was every parody of it (notably the one made for the MTV Movie Awards).
- The main characters shared one of these in A Life Less Ordinary.
- Rent had one between Angel and Collins after singing I'll Cover You. It was edited out before release though.
- A rather funny, though disturbing, male on male version occurs in The Brother Solomon.
- Angus Thongs And Perfect Snogging features one during a Practice Kiss.
Western Animation
- Gangstalicious has one of these with a former prison mate in an episode of "The Boondocks"
- On Bob's Burgers, Bob tried to show his wife Linda he's a good kisser and this was the result.
Visual Novels
