Stopperage
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Penetrating partner on top
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Penetrating partner on top
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Thrusting
- Support / surface
- Flat surface / bed
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Illustrative
- Physical difficulty
- Low
- Prevalence in adult media
- Occasional
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: A cushion is placed under the receiving partner's hips and the knees are drawn up, deliberately shortening the working depth so that contact stays shallow and constant. The old text is explicit that the aim is a fuller fit rather than a deeper one.
Variations: One cushion or a stacked pair, knees held by the partner or by the receiving partner's own hands, and the shoulders left flat rather than propped.
On camera: The prop is the position, and a visible cushion reads as set dressing rather than technique, so productions usually hide it under a sheet.
AI design considerations: A wedge under the pelvis tilting the hips up while the shoulders stay down. Without the wedge the figure is just a missionary and the position disappears.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- StopperageArab–Berber (Maghreb) →
The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight — Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi · 15th century CE
A cushion placed under the hips to shorten the passage.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.