Reverse cowgirl
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Receiving partner on top
Posed figure
Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Receiving partner on top
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Front to back
- Dynamics
- Riding
- Support / surface
- Flat surface / bed
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Both
- Physical difficulty
- Moderate
- Prevalence in adult media
- Common
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: As cowgirl, but the receiving partner faces away from the supine penetrating partner, presenting their back and rear to them (and often to camera).
Variations: Upright, leaning back onto the hands, or leaning forward toward the penetrating partner's feet. Anal variant uses the same arrangement.
On camera: The rear-facing orientation makes it a standard penetrating-partner-POV and rear-framing position.
AI design considerations: Same stacked geometry as cowgirl with the top figure mirrored front-to-back; the top figure's face is turned away.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Rabbit Licks Its FurChinese (Han dynasty tradition) →
Su Nü Jing (Classic of the Plain Girl) — attributed to the Plain Girl dialogues with the Yellow Emperor · c. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE; preserved in the Japanese Ishimpō (984 CE)
The Nine Ways' rider facing the feet, head bowed.
- Venus pendula aversaRoman →
Pompeian erotic frescoes — Campanian wall painters · 1st century CE
The turned-away variant of Rome's riding motif.
Depicted in the historical record
Museum-attested works showing this arrangement · full timeline →
- Erotic fresco, House of the Centenary, Room 43Pompeii, Herculaneum & the Silver-and-Ceramic Repertoire →
1st c. CE · Pompeii, likely still in situ
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.