Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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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- noun A position for
sexual intercourse in which the man and woman face each other, with the man on top.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Christian missionaries' supposed advocacy of this position over other copulatory positions.]
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Supposed to have been originated by natives of the Trobriand Islands (who considered it improper)
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