Elephant Posture

M/F · Vaginal penetration · From behind

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Elephant Posture 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
Common
Intensity tier (compliance)
Explicit

Common camera framing

Side profileOverheadRear

Description: The receiving partner lies face down and flat with the penetrating partner stretched along the back, entering from behind. The classical name comes from the low, heavy line of the two bodies pressed together rather than from any animal movement.

Variations: Legs together or slightly parted, a pillow under the hips to raise the angle, or the receiving partner's arms drawn forward to lengthen the spine.

On camera: Difficult to shoot because the upper body covers the contact point almost completely. Overhead framing is the usual answer, with profile used for the body line rather than the act.

AI design considerations: Two prone figures stacked with near-parallel spines. Keep a visible offset at the shoulders, since perfectly aligned figures fuse into one silhouette.

Historical provenance

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

  • Aibhika (the elephant posture)Indian (Gupta era) →

    Kama Sutra · Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE

    The receiving partner lying face down, entered from behind.

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, prone_bone, on_stomach, lying_on_person, sex_from_behind, on_bed

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

Image to video (Thrust (shallow))

short-range reciprocating motion along the body axis, small amplitude, hips leading, 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 prone_bone is broader than this position: prone_bone constrains only the receiving body, flat on the stomach and penetrated from behind, and says nothing about the penetrating partner. It discards the low, heavy line that names this entry, the partner stretched full length along the receiver's back with the two bodies pressed together, and it is the same tag the catalog's prone-bone, jockey and cicada-clings entries carry, so the four cannot be told apart through it.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

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

  • prone_bonebroadershared with 3 other positions

    prone_bone constrains only the receiving body, flat on the stomach and penetrated from behind, and says nothing about the penetrating partner. It discards the low, heavy line that names this entry, the partner stretched full length along the receiver's back with the two bodies pressed together, and it is the same tag the catalog's prone-bone, jockey and cicada-clings entries carry, so the four cannot be told apart through it.

  • Aibhika (the elephant posture)relatedKama Sutra

    Attested source name. Burton names the pressing of an elephant only in a list of animal variants of the congress of a cow, made on hands and feet, and gives it no posture of its own, so the face-down arrangement here is the catalog's reading rather than the text's.

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 maintained.

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

Camera moves that suit the geometry: Overhead descend, Arc (partial), Locked off, Push in.

Also known asaibhikaelephant pressflat rear press
Kama Sutra: Aibhika (the elephant posture)

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