Attached Link: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/SEN/CH07.HTM#b3-CANON%20LAW%20AND%20SEX

I'm with you there brudda. My great grandfather was (supposedly) haly Native American, no idea what nation. Legend had it that the term "missionary position" is said to have originated from the European missionaries frowning on some of the more "exotic" coital practiced by native peoples though that has been disputed. The western church certainly has had a number of taboos going way back though burning witches and infidels has always been OK. Europeans seem to have gotten over much of this but here,the hangups remain. Excerpt from Canon Law and Sex: "Numerous sex offenses, however, rarely found their way into the courts, but rather were usually dealt with privately in the so-called internal forum of confession. This was understandably true of solitary offenses, such as masturbation, as well as private deviations from the prescriptions for marital conductengaging in intercourse unclothed, for example, or during daylight, at forbidden times, or in unconventional postures. Pastoral manuals and handbooks for confessors often dealt at such great length and in such detail with sexual sins that one could conclude these behaviors must have flourished among medieval people; they certainly fascinated the celibate clergymen who constituted the intended audience for these works. Confessors' manuals also routinely cautioned priests to inquire diligently into the sexual habits of the penitents who came to them, but at the same time warned the confessor to take care that his questioning not supply penitents with fresh ideas for disapproved sexual behavior that had not already occurred to them. The dividing line was exceedingly fine, and many a confessor must have found it difficult to be sure he had not crossed it."

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