Lateral coital (side face-to-face)
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Side-lying
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: Both partners lie on their sides facing each other, legs interleaved. The face-to-face counterpart of spooning, studied and named as a low-effort mutual position.
Variations: Receiving partner's upper leg over the partner's hip; the classic scissored-leg interleave.
On camera: Overhead framing reads the interleaved legs; profile shows the mutual embrace.
AI design considerations: Two side-lying figures front-to-front with interlocking legs — the leg weave carries the read.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals & erotic literature
- 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.