Methodology

The Erotic Pose Catalog is a structured reference of named erotic poses and sex positions — solo and multi-person — as they appear in adult video and print. Each entry records the position's structure, participant composition, presentation, and a schematic keypoint template. It is a metadata catalog: it hosts no images. The full data is published as an open dataset on Hugging Face.

Named positions are anchored to Wikidata items (structured data, CC0) for stable identifiers and cross-language names, supplemented by public-domain historical names (e.g. the Kama Sutra) and the structural axes long used in position references. Real-world synonyms are drawn from adult-industry and booru-style tag folksonomies for the aliases field.

All prose descriptions are original. We reference the structure of existing taxonomies but do not copy share-alike (CC BY-SA) article text, so the catalog can be released under a permissive attribution licence.

Every attribute is a value from a versioned controlled vocabulary covering position structure, participant composition, presentation, and keypoint dimensions. Browse it on the taxonomy page. Enumerated values keep the catalog machine-readable and consistent for tagging, search facets, and prompt conditioning.

Each participant carries an idealised COCO-17 keypoint template — the de-facto 17-joint layout used by human-pose datasets. A participant references a base posture (supine, kneeling, all-fours, astride, and so on) plus a placement transform; the two compose into scene-space keypoints. These are schematic reference templates, not motion-captured or image-derived measurements. They provide the symbolic-to-geometric bridge that named-position vocabularies lack and that raw keypoint datasets provide only as unnamed coordinates.

The catalog data is released under CC BY 4.0 — free to use, including commercially, with attribution. Wikidata anchors are CC0. Consumers redistributing any linked third-party material should check its own licence.

Intended: content tagging and search facets, taxonomy research, and text-to-image prompt conditioning for adult creative tools. Out of scope: any use involving minors, and any non-consensual application. The catalog documents adults-only, consensual depictions and carries no personal data.