Half-Pressed Position
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Kneeling
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Kneeling
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- 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
Description: The asymmetric form of the pressing position: one of the receiving partner's legs stays extended along the bed while the other is drawn up to the chest. The uneven pelvis puts a twist through the hips that the symmetric version has no way to produce.
Variations: The raised leg can rest on the penetrating partner's shoulder, be held at the knee, or hook behind the back. Swapping which leg is raised changes the direction of the internal angle, which is the usual reason to switch mid-scene.
On camera: Shoots better than the fully closed version because the extended leg leaves one side of the body open to the lens. Profile from the extended-leg side is the standard framing.
AI design considerations: Deliberate left-right asymmetry in the lower figure's legs. Renders tend to mirror the limbs automatically, which destroys the position, so the two legs must be posed independently.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Ardha-piditaka (the half pressed position)Indian (Gupta era) →
Kama Sutra · Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE
One leg extended, the other drawn up.
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, missionary, on_back, knee_up, outstretched_leg, kneeling, on_bed
negative: bad_anatomy, bad_hands, censored, monochrome, 2girls, 3girls, 2boys, 3boys
Image to video (Thrust (deep))
long-range reciprocating motion along the body axis, full amplitude, torso following the hips, 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.
Identifiers in other vocabularies
How this position is denoted elsewhere, and what each mapping discards. Full table in the crosswalk.
missionary fixes only that the receiver lies on the back facing the partner and holds for any leg arrangement, from flat to folded. It discards the deliberate asymmetry that defines this entry, one leg extended along the bed while the other is drawn up to the chest, with the twist it puts through the hips, and the partner kneeling rather than lying over; knee_up and outstretched_leg restore the two legs only as separate postures.
Ardha-piditaka (the half pressed position)closeKama SutraAttested source name. One leg extended, the other drawn up. Burton gives it as the half form of the pressed position, the other leg contracted and held at the partner's chest, while this entry's description derives it from the pressing position.
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 intermittent.
Camera moves that suit the geometry: Arc (partial), Locked off, Push in, Crane down.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.