Doggy style

M/F · Vaginal penetration · From behind

Posed figure

Doggy style sex position — posed figure showing body placement for 2 people

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Keypoint template

ReceivingPenetratingCOCO-17 template · schematic, not to scale

Attributes

Position family
One-on-one
Primary act
Vaginal penetration
Partner arrangement
From behind
Penetration type
Vaginal
Facing
Front to back
Dynamics
Thrusting
Support / surface
Flat surface / bed
Participant count
Two
Composition code
M/F
Source medium
Both
Physical difficulty
Low
Prevalence in adult media
Very common
Intensity tier (compliance)
Explicit

Common camera framing

RearSide profilePOV (penetrating)

Description: The receiving partner is on hands and knees; the penetrating partner kneels behind and enters from the rear. The archetypal rear-entry position.

Variations: Head-down/hips-up, forearms down, one leg raised, or standing at the edge of a surface. Widely used for both vaginal and anal penetration.

On camera: A dominant position in video; shot from the rear, in side profile, or as penetrating-partner POV.

AI design considerations: An all-fours figure with a kneeling figure directly behind; hip registration and the rear silhouette are the focus.

Historical provenance

Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →

  • Dhenuka (the congress of the cow)Indian (Gupta era) →

    Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE

  • Tiger's TreadChinese (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)

  • Dhenuka-vyanta-bandhaIndian (late medieval) →

    Ananga Ranga — Kalyanamalla · 15th–16th century CE

    The cow within the prone/rear class.

  • The rear-entry vesselsMoche (pre-Columbian Andes) →

    Moche erotic ceramics — Moche potters, northern Peru · c. 100–800 CE

    By far the most modelled arrangement in the Moche sex-pot corpus.

  • Rear-entry printsJapanese (Edo period) →

    Shunga woodblock prints — Ukiyo-e masters (Utamaro, Hokusai, Kunisada) · 17th–19th century CE

    Among the recurrent arrangements across the surviving print corpus.

Depicted in the historical record

Museum-attested works showing this arrangement · full timeline →

Generating this position

A starting prompt composed from the catalog vocabulary. Every tag is verified to exist and not be deprecated. Compose across wardrobe, scene and expression in the prompt builder.

Booru-tag checkpoints

1boy, 1girl, hetero, doggystyle, all_fours, kneeling, on_bed, arched_back, vaginal, sex_from_behind

negative: bad_anatomy, bad_hands, censored, monochrome, 2girls, 3girls, 2boys, 3boys

Image to video (Thrust (deep))

long-range reciprocating motion along the body axis, full amplitude, torso following the hips, camera is locked on a tripod and does not move.

Motion only. The still you condition on must already carry the position, wardrobe and scene: restating them causes drift.

Expected figure count: 2. Global pose conditioning does not make a diffusion model count bodies. Count figures and limbs at full size before judging quality, because thumbnails hide the failure. The tag doggystyle is broader than this position: doggystyle is the family tag for kneeling rear entry, carried by the compressed turtle fold and by multi-receiver line-ups alike, and the permitted vocabulary's standing_doggystyle child implies it; the tag therefore drops the one-on-one pairing and the receiver propped up on hands and knees at full working height that define this archetype.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

How this position is denoted elsewhere, and what each mapping discards. Full table in the crosswalk.

  • Q300648exact
  • doggystylebroadershared with 4 other positions

    doggystyle is the family tag for kneeling rear entry, carried by the compressed turtle fold and by multi-receiver line-ups alike, and the permitted vocabulary's standing_doggystyle child implies it; the tag therefore drops the one-on-one pairing and the receiver propped up on hands and knees at full working height that define this archetype.

  • Dhenuka (the congress of the cow)closeKama Sutra

    Attested historical name for this position in the named source; the source wording may describe a variant of the general form.

  • Tiger's TreadcloseSu Nü Jing (Classic of the Plain Girl)

    Attested historical name for this position in the named source; the source wording may describe a variant of the general form.

  • Dhenuka-vyanta-bandhacloseAnanga Ranga

    Attested source name. The cow within the prone/rear class.

  • The rear-entry vesselscloseMoche erotic ceramics

    Attested source name. By far the most modelled arrangement in the Moche sex-pot corpus.

  • Rear-entry printscloseShunga woodblock prints

    Attested source name. Among the recurrent arrangements across the surviving print corpus.

Actions this position admits

The position fixes who is where. These are the beats that are physically possible in it, from the action catalog. Contact through the characteristic beat is intermittent.

Idle / micro-motionPose settleApproachCaressKissEntryThrust (shallow)Thrust (deep) (characteristic)Thrust and holdGrind (circular)Grind (rocking)RepositionClimax reactionAftermath

Camera moves that suit the geometry: POV (head-mounted), Arc (partial), Push in, Locked off.

Also known asrear entryfrom behinddoggie style
Kama Sutra: Dhenuka (the cow)Wikidata Q300648 →

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Double vaginal penetrationEiffel TowerEkiben (facing-away carry)Face-off (chair straddle)Full nelsonIntercrural (standing)
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Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.