Introducing Slept On, a new series where we ask our favorite people to make the case for something that's been long underrated.

The missionary position is Sex 101. If you’ve ever been with someone of the opposite sex, it’s probably the first position you tried (and likely the first position you were bad at). It’s what the kids in But I’m a Cheerleader! are taught is the only acceptable way to bang. Lady Bird even jokes about the absurdity of its titular character being on top her first time. Is it boring because it’s called “missionary,” or the other way around?

Either way, Phoebe Robinson, comedian and co-host of the podcast (and soon-to-be four HBO specials, starting February 2) 2 Dope Queens, thinks that, in our attempts to be adventurous for adventurousness’s sake, we’re dismissing one of the most comforting pleasures of sex-having. She’s here to set the record straight about missionary disciples (missionaries).

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GQ: What are the joys of missionary position?Phoebe Robinson: I think, like, I get to lie down! Great. Thumbs up. Life is hard, I would love to lie down right now. I think it gets a bad rap because people are like, “Oh, missionary position, the girl is being lazy and not adventurous.” And yeah, if I want adventure, I’ll go skydive. I want it to be safe and chill and cool. Lying on top of each other is great. It’s easy. That’s what I want.

With the adventurous stuff, it always turns into it being the woman having to do more shit.Yeah, I think missionary is tried-and-true. It works. I think people are embarrassed to say that, because you want to be like, “I do all these tricks. I hang from the ceiling.” It’s like when you go on vacation to this fabulous place, and really all you want to do is stay in your hotel and eat room service. No matter what, you want the most basic, comforting thing. That’s what missionary position is.

What do you think is an overrated sex position?When people wear heels in bed. Shoes are fucking dirty, do not get your shoes on my bed, are you out of your mind? That’s truly nuts to me. It’s so unhygienic. And also, the whole “hoisted up in the air and boned” thing is cool for, like, 17 seconds. Then you’re sweating a lot and you’re in danger of him dropping you.

Yes! The physics of up-against-the-wall sex have never made sense to me.No. And the bed is right there! Just rotate 90 degrees and drop me down, it’s simple math.

Do you think men are better at missionary than other positions?I don’t know if it’s a matter of men being better. But you’ve had a long day, you were stuck in traffic, you had to make dinner, you had to pay your bills. I don’t want to have to then be Simone Biles in the bedroom. Her only job is to flip around. My job is to answer e-mails and do stand-up. That’s the only job I’m doing today. I’m all jobbed up. For both people involved, we worked today, so this is the job where we do less work. So that’s why I think it’s good.

Yeah, it’s a comfort.Exactly.

It seems like a lot of stuff on your list of things not to sleep on has to do with comfort, and not making things complicated.I think that comfort is underrated in a lot of ways. Maybe it’s social media, or people in general oversharing about their lives, so everyone feels like they need to be doing more than they actually are. And in the pursuit of trying to be so fabulous and have it look like you’re in this relaxed situation, whether it’s in the bedroom or on vacation or whatever, you wind up stressing yourself out even more.

What’s one more thing you think people really shouldn’t sleep on?Oh, Mel C! Sporty Spice love. I get it, because when I was 13 when it came out, I identified with Scary Spice ’cause we’re both black. But as I got older—the other week I was listening to some Spice Girls stuff, and Mel C by far has the best voice! She’d do her riffs and her runs at the end of these songs. And yeah, she had her tearaway pants and Reeboks, and I get it, it’s not the coolest aesthetic, but if Mel C was not in this group, you’re gonna rely on Posh to carry the notes? I don’t think so. She never worried about a wardrobe malfunction, she was cool and had a tomboy vibe. Baby Spice, it’s like, you’re all wearing crazy platform shoes, you’ll break your ankles. She is wearing New Balance sneakers like a divorced soccer dad, and guess what? No injuries. She’s doing great.

Do you know what she’s up to now?I’m going to be honest with you, I don’t know. But I also like that Mel C is keeping it low-key. I see her living a nice comfortable life, she’s boo-ed up, she’s rocking that snaggletooth realness. I have an overbite, so I get it. You got a snaggletooth? Show it off. You have an overbite? Bite some more. She was owning it. She was a goddess because she owned it all.

I know these are all very different things you’re enthusiastic about, but what do you think they all have in common?Yeah, I would just say, so much of the culture right now is talking about what’s not cool and automatically dismissing it. And once you go back to when you were 10 and thought everything was tight, and give stuff a chance that even if it’s not the thing that everyone is talking about on Twitter or Instagram. There’s a lot of fun stuff in there, and it requires us all to take ourselves a little less seriously. That is ultimately what I think we could all benefit from.

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