Dragon Turns
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Penetrating partner on top
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Penetrating partner on top
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Thrusting
- Support / surface
- Flat surface / bed
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Illustrative
- Physical difficulty
- Low
- Prevalence in adult media
- Common
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: The receiving partner lies back with the knees raised while the penetrating partner works above, alternating shallow and deep strokes on a counted rhythm. The classical text treats the counted alternation, not the arrangement, as what defines the way.
Variations: The stroke pattern is the variable: shallow sets interrupted by a single deep one, or an even alternation. The body shape stays close to a standard supine union throughout.
On camera: Indistinguishable in a still frame from an ordinary missionary, so it only registers across a sustained take where the rhythm is visible.
AI design considerations: A standard two-figure supine stack. Nothing in the geometry is unusual, so any distinguishing detail has to come from the caption rather than the pose.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Dragon TurnsChinese (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)
First of the Nine Ways.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.