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Standing face-to-face (leg raised)
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Standing
Posed figure
Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Standing
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Thrusting
- Support / surface
- Standing, unsupported
- 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: Upright face-to-face penetration only works once the angle is opened, and the raised leg is what opens it: both partners stand facing each other while the receiving partner lifts one leg and hooks it over the penetrating partner's hip. The stance leaves the receiving partner balanced on a single foot, so the penetrating partner's arms take part of the load, gripping the raised thigh or wrapping the waist. Thrusting stays shallow compared with horizontal positions but the full-length body contact compensates.
Variations: The raised leg held at the knee or at the ankle; a wall behind either partner for stability; a height mismatch corrected with a step under the shorter partner.
On camera: The raised-leg line is the frame itself; a shower and on-location staple, shot in profile or wide to keep both standing bodies whole.
AI design considerations: Two upright facing figures with one hooked leg bridging them. The lifted knee's height sets the read; keep the standing leg planted and vertical or the pose loses balance credibility.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Sthita (the steadied congress)Indian (Gupta era) →
Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE
Standing against a wall or pillar.
- Utthita-bandha (standing class)Indian (late medieval) →
Ananga Ranga — Kalyanamalla · 15th–16th century CE
- Standing maithunaIndian (medieval temple tradition) →
Khajuraho & Konark temple sculpture — Chandela and Eastern Ganga sculptors · c. 950–1250 CE
The upright embracing couples that anchor the temple friezes.
Depicted in the historical record
Museum-attested works showing this arrangement · full timeline →
- Torii Kiyonaga, Sode no Maki ("Handscroll for the Sleeve")Shunga →
c. 1785 · MFA Boston & British Museum
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.