Doggy style
M/F · Vaginal penetration · From behind
Posed figure
Keypoint template
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
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 →
- Kylix, Akestorides PainterAttic Vase Painting →
ca. 470–460 BC · National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Vlastos-Serpieris Collection (ΒΣ 541)
- Erotic fresco cycle, Suburban Baths apodyteriumPompeii, Herculaneum & the Silver-and-Ceramic Repertoire →
c. 62–79 CE, discovered 1986 · Pompeii, in situ
- Lupanar wall paintingsPompeii, Herculaneum & the Silver-and-Ceramic Repertoire →
Before 79 CE (one dating: 72 CE, via a coin impression) · Pompeii, in situ brothel
- Tomba dei Tori — male-couple sceneTomb Painting, Necropolis of Monterozzi, Tarquinia →
c. 540–530 BC, discovered 1892 · In situ, Tarquinia
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.