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Lateral coital (side face-to-face)
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Side-lying
Posed figure
Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Side-lying
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- 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)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: Face to face on their sides: the partners lie turned toward each other with legs interleaved, the mutual counterpart to spooning's nested rear entry. Neither body bears the other's weight, since the mattress supports each along the flank, and the pose has been studied and named as a low-effort mutual position, with motion arriving as a shared grind rather than deep thrusting.
Variations: The receiving partner's upper leg may hook over the partner's hip, or both pairs of legs weave into the classic scissored interleave.
On camera: Overhead framing reads the interleaved legs most clearly; side profile shows the mutual embrace.
AI design considerations: Two side-lying figures meet front to front, and the woven legs carry the read. Keep the interlock explicit, each shin traceable to its owner, because ambiguous leg attribution is the dominant failure mode here.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Parshva samputa (the side clasp)Indian (Gupta era) →
Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE
- Tiryak-bandha (side class)Indian (late medieval) →
Ananga Ranga — Kalyanamalla · 15th–16th century CE
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.