Standing face-to-face (leg raised)

M/F · Vaginal penetration · Standing

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Standing face-to-face (leg raised) sex position — posed figure showing body placement for 2 people

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Keypoint template

PenetratingReceivingCOCO-17 template · schematic, not to scale

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

Side profileWide / full body

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

Generating this position

A starting prompt composed from the catalog vocabulary. Every tag is verified to exist and not be deprecated. Compose across wardrobe, scene and expression in the prompt builder.

Booru-tag checkpoints

1boy, 1girl, hetero, standing_sex, standing_on_one_leg, holding_another's_leg, hug, standing, vaginal

negative: bad_anatomy, bad_hands, censored, monochrome, 2girls, 3girls, 2boys, 3boys

Image to video (Thrust (shallow))

short-range reciprocating motion along the body axis, small amplitude, hips leading, camera is locked on a tripod and does not move.

Motion only. The still you condition on must already carry the position, wardrobe and scene: restating them causes drift.

Expected figure count: 2. Global pose conditioning does not make a diffusion model count bodies. Count figures and limbs at full size before judging quality, because thumbnails hide the failure. The tag standing_sex is broader than this position: standing_sex fixes only that the receiver is upright on one or both feet. It discards the face-to-face orientation (the wiki's own example list runs sex from behind and standing doggystyle alongside standing missionary), the single leg lifted and hooked over the penetrating partner's hip, the fact that the penetrating partner is also standing, and the vaginal act. The orientation is not recoverable from this pool at any strength: there is no face-to-face and no looking_at_another tag in it (both verified absent), and hug only asserts the embrace, not which way the bodies face.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

How this position is denoted elsewhere, and what each mapping discards. Full table in the crosswalk.

  • standing_sexbroadershared with 1 other positions

    standing_sex fixes only that the receiver is upright on one or both feet. It discards the face-to-face orientation (the wiki's own example list runs sex from behind and standing doggystyle alongside standing missionary), the single leg lifted and hooked over the penetrating partner's hip, the fact that the penetrating partner is also standing, and the vaginal act. The orientation is not recoverable from this pool at any strength: there is no face-to-face and no looking_at_another tag in it (both verified absent), and hug only asserts the embrace, not which way the bodies face.

  • Sthita (the steadied congress)closeKama Sutra

    Attested source name. Standing against a wall or pillar.

  • Utthita-bandha (standing class)closeAnanga Ranga

    Attested historical name for this position in the named source; the source wording may describe a variant of the general form.

  • Standing maithunacloseKhajuraho & Konark temple sculpture

    Attested source name. The upright embracing couples that anchor the temple friezes.

Actions this position admits

The position fixes who is where. These are the beats that are physically possible in it, from the action catalog. Contact through the characteristic beat is maintained.

Idle / micro-motionPose settleApproachDisrobeCaressKissEntryThrust (shallow) (characteristic)Thrust and holdGrind (rocking)Grind (circular)Manual strokeRepositionClimax reactionAftermath

Camera moves that suit the geometry: Orbit (360), Arc (partial), Push in, Tilt reveal.

Also known asstanding embraceone leg upflamingo
Kama Sutra: Sthita (the steadied, standing)

Related positions

Standing rear entry (bent over)Standing rear press (against wall)Standing sandwich (DP carry)Suspended congress (standing carry)T-squareTurtle
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