Pretzel (pretzel dip)
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Side-lying
Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Side-lying
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Thrusting
- Support / surface
- Flat surface / bed
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Video
- Physical difficulty
- Moderate
- Prevalence in adult media
- Common
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: The receiving partner lies on one side; the penetrating partner kneels astride the lower thigh, lifting the upper leg — combining rear-entry depth with face-to-face contact. A production favourite for keeping the receiving partner's body open to camera.
Variations: Upper leg wrapped around the kneeling partner's waist or held at the ankle; degrees of the receiving torso's twist.
On camera: The twisted, open silhouette shoots well in profile and low angle — a staple of every studio's rotation.
AI design considerations: A side-lying figure with a kneeling figure straddling its lower leg, upper leg raised against them — the leg-over-leg weave is the defining detail.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Matsuba-kuzushi (scattered pine needles)Japanese (Edo period) →
Shijūhatte (the Forty-Eight Techniques) — Edo-period pleasure-quarter tradition · 17th–19th century CE
The Edo 48's interleaved-leg side entry — the pretzel's ancestor.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.