The Ostrich's Tail
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Inverted
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Inverted
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Thrusting
- 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's hips are lifted until the weight rests on the head and shoulders alone, with the legs carried over by the kneeling penetrating partner. It sits between an ordinary raised-hip position and a full piledriver, and the classical name is describing the fanned leg shape at the top.
Variations: Legs spread wide or held together, hips supported by the partner's hands or braced against a headboard, and the shoulders on a folded pillow to spare the neck.
On camera: Shot low and in profile so the inversion registers. It is a hold rather than a sustained working position and is usually cut into a sequence rather than run long.
AI design considerations: An inverted lower figure supported on the shoulders with the pelvis above the head line. Neck compression is the anatomical trap: the head should tilt, not fold.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- The tail of the ostrichArab–Berber (Maghreb) →
The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight — Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi · 15th century CE
The receiving partner's legs raised until only the head and shoulders rest on the ground.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.