Lotus
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Seated
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Seated
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Grinding
- Support / surface
- Seated on furniture
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Both
- Physical difficulty
- Moderate
- Prevalence in adult media
- Occasional
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: The penetrating partner sits cross-legged or on a surface; the receiving partner sits astride facing them, legs wrapped around, bodies close in an upright embrace. Motion is a close grind rather than thrusting.
Variations: On the floor, on a chair (the related lap position), or leaning back for depth. Emphasises intimacy and eye contact.
On camera: Side profile shows the seated embrace; a slower, intimacy-coded position.
AI design considerations: Two upright seated figures interlocked face-to-face; laps register while torsos stay vertical and close.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Padmasana-derived seated embraceIndian (Gupta era) →
Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE
- Cranes with Necks EntwinedChinese (Han dynasty tradition) →
Su Nü Jing (Classic of the Plain Girl) — attributed to the Plain Girl dialogues with the Yellow Emperor · c. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE; preserved in the Japanese Ishimpō (984 CE)
The seated embrace of the Nine Ways.
- The cushion embracePersian & Mughal →
Persian & Mughal erotic miniatures — Safavid, Qajar and Mughal court ateliers · 16th–19th century CE
Seated unions on carpets and bolsters are the miniature albums' core scene.
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, upright_straddle, straddling, sitting, hug, breast_press, vaginal
negative: bad_anatomy, bad_hands, censored, monochrome, 2girls, 3girls, 2boys, 3boys
Image to video (Grind (circular))
hips trace a circular path in the horizontal plane, 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.
- Q3550239exact
upright_straddle covers any face-to-face lap straddle, including the chair straddle the catalog files separately as face-off and kneeling-upright variants; it does not record the cross-legged seated base, the legs-wrapped mutual embrace, or the close grind rather than thrusting that define lotus.
Padmasana-derived seated embracecloseKama SutraAttested historical name for this position in the named source; the source wording may describe a variant of the general form.
Cranes with Necks EntwinedcloseSu Nü Jing (Classic of the Plain Girl)Attested source name. The seated embrace of the Nine Ways.
The cushion embraceclosePersian & Mughal erotic miniaturesAttested source name. Seated unions on carpets and bolsters are the miniature albums' core scene.
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: Orbit (360), Arc (partial), Push in, Locked off.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.