When did we start using XOXOX for hugs and kisses?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

In ancient times when few people could write, even their own name, they would make an X and then kiss it to attest to the authenticity of the X.  The O, I believe, is a super-simplified emoticon, representing a person with outstretched arms wrapping them around another person in a hug.

nanc5979 · Answer

When a lot of people were illiterate they would use a the X.
Some Jewish people thought that the X looked to much like a cross so they used the O. Over the years it just turned into xoxo
for hugs and kisses.

raredawn · Answer

Nto actually sure but  i can tell you this much, X was used for kisses when I was a child in the 60s.

Aiyene · Answer

i have no idea, but it is really sweet to receive a text message with XOXOX in the end!=)

? · Answer

I don't when but it has been around a long time.

jerry · Answer

when adam 'n' eve were born

shreshthirox · Answer

wen adam 'n' eve were born!!!

When did we start using XOXOX for hugs and kisses?

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