Cicada Clings
M/F · Vaginal penetration · From behind
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- From behind
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Front to back
- Dynamics
- Grinding
- Support / surface
- Flat surface / bed
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Illustrative
- Physical difficulty
- Low
- Prevalence in adult media
- Occasional
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: The receiving partner lies flat and face down with the legs together, and the penetrating partner lies along the back, clinging rather than driving. The classical description emphasizes stillness and full contact along the length of both bodies.
Variations: Arms spread or tucked, a slight hip lift to open the angle, and the upper partner's weight taken on the elbows rather than the chest.
On camera: Almost fully occluded, so it works as an intimacy beat and not as a hardcore shot. Overhead is the only framing that shows anything of the arrangement.
AI design considerations: Two prone figures in maximum contact with legs together. Because the silhouettes nearly coincide, the separation has to be carried by shoulder offset and limb placement.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Cicada ClingsChinese (Han dynasty tradition) →
Su Nü Jing (Classic of the Plain Girl) — attributed to the Plain Girl dialogues with the Yellow Emperor · c. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE; preserved in the Japanese Ishimpō (984 CE)
Fourth of the Nine Ways: the receiving partner face down and flat.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.