You know all of those jokes about the traveling salesmen and the farmer’s daughter? Well the way I heard it told, those were oringally traveling missionary jokes. Apparantly, back in in olden (as in Medeval) times, missionaries were randy buggers who took gross advantage of the hospitality they were offered as men of God, and the possition that is now known as the missionary possition was the one they favored over all others - maybe because although they were horney they knew very little about sex?
Of course, this may very well be complete horse hockey, but that’s the way I heard it - and from a counselor in college who taught classes on human sexuality, no less.
Of course you read it, but maybe someone else who might be reading this thread hasn’t. Especially if this thread is still active a week later, when the original column would no longer be listed on the front page.
Mmm, sorry, I don’t identify those who were active in spreading the Christian faith to the heathens in Europe with the missionaries who were spreading the various Christian faiths to the heathens in the, say, 19th Century, so I didn’t think of that. My bad. :smack: