Gotta have more orange juice
One of my favorite bits of science trivia is that the great physicist Richard Feynman was an avid player of the bongo drum:
(Thanks MeFi)
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March 7th, 2008 by 
Simon Greenhill
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Email Henry Updates to Me
July 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Going through your category on ‘bongo-bongo-ism’, which I suppose you mean to apply as a general catch-all for ‘European attitudes towards strange habits indulged in by exotic peoples’ I came across your perplexity about Trukese sex positions.
All is explained at:
Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and … Googlebooks
http://tinyurl.com/5egs3w
It’s face to face upright copulation, or woman on top, nothing like the enjoyably perverted practice I was looking forward to finding. It’s very much the norm here in Bongo Bongo, where I live.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Going through your category on ‘bongo-bongo-ism’, which I suppose you mean to apply as a general catch-all for ‘European attitudes towards strange habits indulged in by exotic peoples’ I came across your perplexity about Trukese sex positions.
All is explained at:
Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and … Googlebooks
http://tinyurl.com/5egs3w
top right hand of page 113 with photos of orang utans in flagrante delictu.
It’s face to face upright copulation, or woman on top, nothing like the enjoyably perverted practice I was looking forward to finding. It’s very much the norm here in Bongo Bongo, where I live.