For what its worth, I suspect most women (and probably most men) see french kissing as a prelude to sex. Perhaps she is sexually repressed. Probably its more complicated than that. I probably have little to add – but who really does?

I have kissed a good many women and none have ever disdained it. I would suppose it may be an outlier position. I have heard some say it was gross, But I never actually kissed any of them.

I don't kiss mouths at all if I can possibly avoid it, it's not that I think it's gross it just weird? childish? or just silly, sort of like when grown ups high five each other.

Sucking my eyeballs covered by my eyelids... that's the french I want. The rest is just training.

So far, I find I like it a lot for a while in the beginning. And, if I'm drinking, I like it more.

I believe kissing is very intimate and is one tiny part of expressing emotional intimacy.

But, if it doesn't continue through and after the hormone high -- and I have found that it always tapers off -- I find myself less and less interested in it, and it even gets to the point that I then become uncomfortable with it.

I wish it wasn't that way, but it is. If it goes missing for a while, or is ONLY when we're in bed, then it feels awkward. That's why I'd prefer it stay a priority. But, it doesn't.

There have been one or two occasions when I was being introduced to someone or , had just met them , when he leaned forward and stuck his tongue in my mouth . I don't know this person and I resent hm entering any part of my body , at least at this point , without my express permission . I don't know anything about this person . I don't know where he's been , what kind of germs he's collected , but is this is his reaction on a first meeting , I'm reasonably certain I'm not the first he's done this two , so in all probability , he doesn't know anything about the folks he's already entered either .

There's an endless cornucopia of hot buttons, hang-ups, phobias and neuroses, and just plain likes and dislikes. I don't know that there's a meaningful definition for "normal" anymore, and in this context you probably just mean "typical" anyway. This is not typical.

It could be symbolic of something, related to a fear of germs, say, or even a fear of intimacy -- maybe there are other things that seem "objectively" more intimate than french kissing that she professes to have no issue with (yet anyway) but maybe this just strikes her subconscious as something that renders her more vulnerable than anything else she's experienced. There's a reason that prostitutes generally forbid kissing; it's too personal for impersonal sex. Maybe your friend allows / accommodates men doing other things but not that one symbolic thing. Maybe she has been having impersonal sex without realizing it and this is a mental block she needs to get past.