Frottage (face-to-face grinding)

M/F · Non-penetrative · Penetrating partner on top

Posed figure

Keypoint template

ReceivingPenetratingCOCO-17 template · schematic, not to scale

Attributes

Position family
One-on-one
Primary act
Non-penetrative
Partner arrangement
Penetrating partner on top
Penetration type
None
Facing
Face to face
Dynamics
Grinding
Support / surface
Flat surface / bed
Participant count
Two
Composition code
M/F
Source medium
Both
Physical difficulty
Low
Prevalence in adult media
Occasional
Intensity tier (compliance)
Suggestive

Common camera framing

Side profileOverhead

Description: Nothing is penetrated here, and that restraint is the register. The bodies take the standard missionary stack, face to face on a flat surface, and move in a sustained pelvic grind, clothed or unclothed, with sensation carried entirely by pressure and friction at the point of contact. It is the tease and outercourse member of the face-to-face family: structurally identical to its penetrative parent, categorically separate in act.

Variations: The convention ladder runs fully clothed (the classic dry-humping tease), underwear-only, and skin-to-skin; each step removes a layer without changing the mechanics.

On camera: It is shot exactly like missionary, in side profile or from overhead, and in softer-rated material it stands in for penetrative scenes entirely; the suggestive tier makes it usable where explicit content is not.

AI design considerations: Reproduce the missionary silhouette with unbroken full-length body contact; clothing state, not geometry, carries the meaning, so garment rendering and fabric compression at the contact point deserve the detail budget.

Also known asdry humpinggrindingoutercourse missionary

Related positions

Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.