missionary position

missionary position

n.

A position for sexual intercourse in which a woman and man lie facing each other, with the woman on the bottom and the man on the top.

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[From Christian missionaries' supposed advocacy of this position over other copulatory positions.]

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missionary position

n

Informal a position for sexual intercourse in which the man lies on top of the woman and they are face to face

[from the belief that missionaries advocated this as the proper position to primitive peoples among whom it was unknown]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

missionary position - a position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples posture, attitude, position - the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"

Translations

missionary position

n (fig inf) → Missionarsstellung f