the missionary position

the missionary position

A sexual position in which the partner who is penetrating lies on top of the other and faces them. The term is often said to have originated with Christian missionaries' supposed promotion of the position among native tribal peoples as the proper one, but the phrase likely originated as the result of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey conflating anthropologists' reports. The missionary position is probably the most popular sexual position, or at least the most well known.
See also: missionary, position
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • missionary
  • at the helm
  • at the helm/tiller
  • shwench
  • dream team
  • balls-out
  • be at the helm
  • balls to the wall
  • alive (live) and kicking (well)
  • jabroni
References in periodicals archive
The results revealed that the missionary position tops the charts, and is favoured by 31% of Brits.
You might begin in the missionary position - still one of the country's favourites - with him on top.
For the older man, the missionary position can be quite tiring - and uncomfortable for the woman if her partner is much heavier than her.
Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, OK, promise?
One Nigerian girl said: "Men from the European commission always like the missionary position." The sex trade has blighted the Belgium capital.
Don't have sex in the missionary position! Don't have sex standing up!
"I am an expert on the missionary position." Sir Ian McKellen describing love scenes he had to do with actress Joanne Whalley in a film about the Profumo scandal.
He told the court they used the missionary position - which was unusual for them - because of the circumstances of the last few days.
It's good, if only for a day, to see the mercenaries adopt the missionary position.
You attacked the myth of India's independence in your novel Filming, regional and European/Asian cliches in The Bus Stopped, imperialism and science in The Thing about Thugs, and preconceptions about fundamentalism and democracy in your latest novel, How To Fight Islamist Terror From The Missionary Position. Do you consider yourself a political writer, or are politics just a background part of your fiction?
ACT residents prefer the missionary position, South Australians are the nation's most sexually satisfied people and West Australians are most unlikely to forgive cheaters.
12 -- About a decade ago when my article headlined "The Missionary Position" appeared on the editorial page of the Indian Express, I got a call from Javed Anand to inquire whether the headline was given by a particular colleague to which I replied in the affirmative.
In a 1995 book "The Missionary Position" and a 1994 documentary called "Hell's Angel", Hitchens accused Mother Teresa of being a political opportunist who struck friendships with dictators and corrupt financiers in exchange for donations to her order.
The man remains perched firmly on top of his woman, with 61 per cent women preferring the missionary position ( an 8 per cent increase from 2003).
Sometimes sex in one position alone can be more fulfilling, even if it's just the missionary position.