2007-07-25 09:54:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Spooning is the act of two people lying on their sides, with one person's front to the other person's back, such that they fit together in a manner similar to spoons. The person who holds the other is often referred to as the "Big Spoon", while the participant who is held is the "Little Spoon".
Spooning can be done with participants clothed as a non-sexual form of physical intimacy, it can be an act of naked cuddling before or after sex, or it can be used as a sex position: see Spoons sex position.
Spooning can also be done in groups, a Group Spoon, this can take place in such areas as a large bed, the floor, or on a trampoline usually with everyone wrapped up in a deep sea of blankets if it is cold outside.
2007-07-25 11:16:32 · answer #1 · answered by Primalstorm 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the Civil War confederate troops often travelled poorly equipped. At night they would spoon to keep warm from shared body heat. This would consist of many troops laying on the ground in the spoon position forming long lines. when the men on the ends got too cold they would shuffle positions. Hard core civil war re-enactors still use this practice.
2007-07-25 17:53:15 · answer #2 · answered by capekicks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a position used, as all the other answers say, but it was also an expression used to mean the couple had moved beyond meeting at dances and begun to get to know one another. "Sparking" was said to happen after "spooning" and then came "getting hitched".
2007-07-25 23:06:00 · answer #3 · answered by Jess 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey hey hey! none of that!! spooning leads to forking!!
2007-07-25 18:47:57 · answer #4 · answered by Ember Halo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, its a position in sex. why does that have any thing to do with folklore or mythology though???
2007-07-25 17:37:01 · answer #5 · answered by inferno_magic 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
...it;s a sexual position...
2007-07-25 17:23:13 · answer #6 · answered by lilykdesign 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋