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"The missionary position was promoted by the Catholic Church during the middle ages. Thomas Aquinas was reportedly an advocate of the position as well. However, according to Alfred Kinsey the missionary position was coined by natives in response to Christian missionaries. Kinsey wrote in his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, It will be recalled that anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski records the nearly universal use of a totally different sexual position among the Trobrianders in the Southwestern Pacific; and he notes that caricatures of the English-American position are performed around the communal campfires, to the great amusement of the natives who refer to the position as the missionary position.
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