Lateral coital (side face-to-face)
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Side-lying
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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
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, on_side, on_bed, leg_lock, hug, vaginal
negative: bad_anatomy, bad_hands, censored, monochrome, 2girls, 3girls, 2boys, 3boys
Image to video (Grind (rocking))
pelvis rocks forward and back through a short arc, contact never breaking, 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.
- Q3543399exact
on_side is a bare posture tag shared with spooning, solo lying and wholly non-sexual scenes; it records neither the face-to-face orientation, nor the interleaved legs, nor that penetration is occurring at all.
Parshva samputa (the side clasp)closeKama SutraAttested historical name for this position in the named source; the source wording may describe a variant of the general form.
Tiryak-bandha (side class)closeAnanga RangaAttested historical name for this position in the named source; the source wording may describe a variant of the general form.
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 maintained.
Camera moves that suit the geometry: Overhead descend, Arc (partial), Locked off, Push in.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.