What’s Your Position on Missionary?

The ins and outs of the world’s most popular sex position

Ash Jurberg
Sexography
Published in
5 min readMar 15, 2021

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When the word missionary comes to mind, you probably think of two things. Firstly the missionary position. Secondly, the religious dudes who travel overseas to talk about the Lord.

Did you ever wonder how these two things that are very different are forever entwined? Well, your resident Sexpert, well, at least, when it comes to research, is here to answer your questions.

Let’s take a deep dive into the missionary position.

Foreplay — 9 facts about missionary

“Don’t mess with a missionary man.” The Eurythmics

Before we explore everything you wanted to know about missionary, let’s start with a quick definition. Missionary position is “a face-to-face sex position in which a heterosexual couple lies flat with the male on top, or a same-sex couple lies in a similar, supine-to-prone position.”

Mmm, supine to prone. Doesn’t get sexier than that.

Yes, it does — sex facts! Here are nine quick facts about missionary that are sure to make you the life of any party.

  1. The missionary has many names, including the Matrimonial, the Male Superior, the Mama-Papa, the…

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