Face-off (chair straddle)
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Seated
Posed figure
Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Seated
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Riding
- Support / surface
- Seated on furniture
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Video
- Physical difficulty
- Low
- Prevalence in adult media
- Common
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: The penetrating partner sits on a chair or couch edge; the receiving partner straddles their lap face-to-face and rides. The furniture-based sibling of the lotus.
Variations: Feet on the floor for leverage or knees on the seat; leaning back against the partner's hands.
On camera: Works in any location with seating; profile framing reads the straddle cleanly.
AI design considerations: Upright seated figure with a straddling figure on its lap, knees flanking the seat — chair context distinguishes it from floor lotus.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Taimen-zai (face-to-face seat)Japanese (Edo period) →
Shijūhatte (the Forty-Eight Techniques) — Edo-period pleasure-quarter tradition · 17th–19th century CE
The standard Japanese term for the facing seated union.
- The chair sceneChinese (Ming–Qing) →
Chinese spring-palace albums — Ming and Qing album painters · 16th–18th century CE
Chair-seated unions are a recurring signature of the spring-palace albums.
Depicted in the historical record
Museum-attested works showing this arrangement · full timeline →
- Moronobu, "Two Lovers" & "Courtesan with a Young Man beside a Screen"Shunga →
c. 1675–80 · Metropolitan Museum of Art (JP676)
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.