Sixty-nine (69)

M/F · Oral · Head-to-toe (mutual)

Posed figure

Keypoint template

ReceivingReceivingCOCO-17 template · schematic, not to scale

Attributes

Position family
One-on-one
Primary act
Oral
Partner arrangement
Head-to-toe (mutual)
Penetration type
Oral
Facing
Head to toe
Dynamics
Static hold
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

Side profileOverhead

Description: Reciprocal oral stimulation with the partners aligned head-to-toe, each mouth at the other's genitals simultaneously. In the standard stacked form one partner lies supine while the other holds a prone-over placement above, knees beside the lower partner's head and face dropped to their pelvis. The interlocked silhouette resembles the numeral that names it, and both partners give and receive at once, dividing attention between the two roles.

Variations: One partner supine with the other above, or both partners side-lying; the arrangement carries across any composition: MF, FF, or MM. The upper partner's weight rests on knees and forearms to keep pressure off the partner beneath.

On camera: Shot in side profile or from overhead, the two framings that let the reciprocal alignment read; found in both stills and video.

AI design considerations: Two figures anti-aligned along a single axis, the top one a prone-over placement flipped along the body line. Registration matters at both ends at once: each face must land on the opposite pelvis. Mutual occlusion at the two contact points is the main rendering hazard.

Historical provenance

Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →

  • Kakila (the congress of the crow)Indian (Gupta era)

    Kama SutraVatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE

    Mutual oral named for paired crows.

  • Mutual-oral printsJapanese (Edo period)

    Shunga woodblock printsUkiyo-e masters (Utamaro, Hokusai, Kunisada) · 17th–19th century CE

    The crow's-congress arrangement recurs across the Edo print corpus.

Depicted in the historical record

Museum-attested works showing this arrangement · full timeline →

Also known as69soixante-neufmutual oral
Kama Sutra: Congress of a crow (Kakila)Wikidata Q2349

Related positions

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