Praying Mantis

M/F · Vaginal penetration · Kneeling

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Praying Mantis sex position: posed figure showing body placement for 2 people

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Keypoint template

ReceivingPenetratingCOCO-17 template · schematic, not to scale

Attributes

Position family
One-on-one
Primary act
Vaginal penetration
Partner arrangement
Kneeling
Penetration type
Vaginal
Facing
Front to back
Dynamics
Grinding
Support / surface
Flat surface / bed
Participant count
Two
Composition code
M/F
Source medium
Illustrative
Physical difficulty
Moderate
Prevalence in adult media
Niche
Intensity tier (compliance)
Explicit

Common camera framing

Side profileWide / full bodyRear

Description: Both partners kneel one behind the other with the torsos fully upright and the receiving partner's arms raised or folded high across the chest. The tall, narrow silhouette with the raised forearms is what the name is describing.

Variations: Arms raised overhead, folded across the chest, or reaching back to the partner's neck. Leaning either partner forward converts it into a different position entirely.

On camera: A vertical composition with no occlusion of the upper body, which makes it useful for showing the receiving partner's face and torso while an entry from behind is still in progress.

AI design considerations: Two kneeling figures stacked front to back with both spines vertical and the forward figure's arms elevated. The raised arms are the identifying detail and are the first thing a default pose drops.

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, sex_from_behind, kneeling, arms_up, front-to-back, behind_another, on_bed

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.

Expected figure count: 2. Global pose conditioning does not make a diffusion model count bodies. Count figures and limbs at full size before judging quality, because thumbnails hide the failure. The tag sex_from_behind is broader than this position: sex_from_behind encodes only rear entry, and its wiki names doggystyle, standing doggystyle, prone bone, spooning and reverse cowgirl inside it and closes with any other position from behind, so it already carries the catalog's kneeling-rear-embrace entry, the same two upright kneeling bodies without the raised arms. It discards that both partners kneel with both spines vertical and, above all, the receiving partner's arms raised overhead or folded high, the tall narrow silhouette that names the position. kneeling and front-to-back restore the upright stacked kneel only as separate postures, and arms_up restores only the overhead form of the arms, not the arms folded high across the chest.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

How this position is denoted elsewhere, and what each mapping discards. Full table in the crosswalk.

  • sex_from_behindbroadershared with 8 other positions

    sex_from_behind encodes only rear entry, and its wiki names doggystyle, standing doggystyle, prone bone, spooning and reverse cowgirl inside it and closes with any other position from behind, so it already carries the catalog's kneeling-rear-embrace entry, the same two upright kneeling bodies without the raised arms. It discards that both partners kneel with both spines vertical and, above all, the receiving partner's arms raised overhead or folded high, the tall narrow silhouette that names the position. kneeling and front-to-back restore the upright stacked kneel only as separate postures, and arms_up restores only the overhead form of the arms, not the arms folded high across the chest.

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.

Idle / micro-motionPose settleApproachDisrobeCaressKissEntryThrust (shallow)Thrust and holdGrind (circular)Grind (rocking) (characteristic)Manual strokeRepositionClimax reaction

Camera moves that suit the geometry: Arc (partial), Tilt reveal, Orbit (360), Push in.

Also known asupright kneel rearmantis positionvertical rear kneel

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Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.