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