Mare's Position
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Receiving partner on top
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Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Receiving partner on top
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Static hold
- Support / surface
- Flat surface / bed
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Illustrative
- Physical difficulty
- Advanced / athletic
- Prevalence in adult media
- Niche
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: The receiving partner sits astride and holds still, working only with the pelvic floor. It is the one classical position defined by something invisible from the outside, which is why the texts describe it as a learned skill rather than an arrangement.
Variations: Upright or leaning forward onto the hands; the stillness is the constant. Any external movement puts it back into the ordinary astride family.
On camera: Almost never shot as itself, because a camera cannot see what defines it. It appears in practice as a held beat inside a longer astride sequence.
AI design considerations: A neutral astride figure with no motion cues: level shoulders, relaxed arms, weight settled. Any implied bounce contradicts the position.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Vadavaka (the mare's position)Indian (Gupta era) →
Kama Sutra · Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE
Named for the internal grip rather than the outward shape.
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, cowgirl_position, straddling, sitting_on_person, on_back, on_bed
negative: bad_anatomy, bad_hands, censored, monochrome, 2girls, 3girls, 2boys, 3boys
Image to video (Thrust and hold)
motion travels to full extension and stops, bodies pressed together and motionless, 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.
cowgirl_position fixes only that the receiver straddles a supine partner while facing them, and holds equally for bouncing, grinding and leaning rides. It discards the entire content of this entry, the rider holding still while the pelvic floor does the work, which no documented tag carries: pussy_grip names a grip only by the visible pull on withdrawal, the opposite of a still hold. The support set can assert only a settled seat.
Vadavaka (the mare's position)closeKama SutraAttested source name. Named for the internal grip rather than the outward shape. Burton lists it among the ways of lying down, beside the clasping position, and gives a matching grip made from on top its own name, the pair of tongs, so the astride seat here is the catalog's staging.
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: Locked off, Push in, POV (head-mounted), Rack focus.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.