Pressing Position
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Penetrating partner on top
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Penetrating partner on top
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Grinding
- Support / surface
- Flat surface / bed
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Both
- Physical difficulty
- Low
- Prevalence in adult media
- Common
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: The receiving partner draws both thighs up against the chest and holds them there, and the penetrating partner works over the closed legs. Closing the thighs narrows the passage and shortens the working depth, so the position trades reach for pressure.
Variations: Ankles crossed rather than knees held, the receiving partner's hands clasped behind the thighs, or the penetrating partner taking the shins on the shoulders to press further forward.
On camera: The closed silhouette hides the contact point, so this is usually a transition shot or a close framing on faces rather than a sustained wide.
AI design considerations: Deep knee and hip flexion on the lower figure with both thighs parallel and touching. The compressed limb stack is the identifying detail and is where most renders lose the joint order.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Piditaka (the pressing position)Indian (Gupta era) →
Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.