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Spooning
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Side-lying
Posed figure
Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Side-lying
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Front to back
- Dynamics
- Thrusting
- 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: Nested and same-facing: both partners lie on their sides turned the same direction, the penetrating partner tucked behind the receiving partner like stacked spoons and entering from the rear. Almost no body weight is carried by either partner, which makes it a low-exertion choice and a common slow or resting position; thrusting stays shallow, driven from the hips alone.
Variations: Raising the receiving partner's top leg opens access; the lateral coital position is the closely related side-lying arrangement turned face to face.
On camera: Side profile is the default view, since the nested double curve of the two bodies is the signature framing; close-ups isolate the point of contact.
AI design considerations: Draw two side-lying figures offset along the shared body axis. Limb occlusion between them is heavy, so stagger the arms and give each figure a distinct leg line to keep both silhouettes readable.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Mandarin Ducks EntwinedChinese (Tang dynasty) →
Dongxuanzi (Master of the Cavern Mystery) — attributed to Li Dongxuan · c. 7th century CE
The side-lying pair named for the devoted duck couple.
- The lying-couple vesselsMoche (pre-Columbian Andes) →
Moche erotic ceramics — Moche potters, northern Peru · c. 100–800 CE
Side-lying pairs under blankets — a signature Moche domestic scene.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.