I agree that kissing is often as much if not more intimate and sensual than intercourse, and that if I can feel a connection with someone I'm likely to spend hours kissing them. I can have sex without kissing, but not with someone I have any connection with; kissing is going to happen then. One of the things that makes us human is that we have evolved to the point where we can have intercourse face-to-face, rather than from behind like an animal. If you ask me, that's one of the reasons why humans are one of the more monogamous creatures on Earth, because we can make eye contact while making love. We can attach a conciousness to the thing we're having sex with, unlike a dog or a sheep, who act purely on instinct and could care less who or what has intercourse with them, so long as they are propogating their species. Humans have sex for so many other reasons.
Now I admit, I've not watched any gay ****. Well, not any with dudes, anyway. So I'm sort of uncertain whether or not men make love face-to-face ever, but I imagine that from a purely mechanical point of view it'd be easier stomach-to-back. I suppose that makes gays slightly less human, and in need of some further evolution.
Okay, that was just added in to be mean, but what I'm saying is, while kissing isn't always more intimate than intercourse, it is always intimate. You don't press your mouth against another human's without some feeling there. Well, unless you're one of those people who just kisses everyone, but once again you're not really human if you're doing that.
In summary, man, I love me some kissing. And sexing, too. And don't forget fUcking. Love to fUck. FUck fUck fUck. Ahhh yeah.