Suspended congress (standing carry)

M/F · Vaginal penetration · Standing

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Suspended congress (standing carry) sex position — posed figure showing body placement for 2 people

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Keypoint template

ReceivingPenetratingCOCO-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
Partner-supported
Participant count
Two
Composition code
M/F
Source medium
Both
Physical difficulty
Advanced / athletic
Prevalence in adult media
Occasional
Intensity tier (compliance)
Explicit

Common camera framing

Side profileWide / full body

Description: The penetrating partner stands and carries the receiving partner entirely off the ground, face-to-face, legs wrapped around the waist. A Kama Sutra original that survives as the strength showpiece of standing positions.

Variations: Braced against a wall to share the load; hands under the thighs or clasped beneath the seat.

On camera: Full-length profile sells the carry; wall-braced variants sustain longer takes.

AI design considerations: A standing figure bearing a second figure at chest height — the carried figure's legs wrap the carrier and nothing touches the ground.

Historical provenance

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

  • Avalambitaka (suspended congress)Indian (Gupta era) →

    Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE

  • Driving the Peg HomeArab–Berber (Maghreb) →

    The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight — Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi · 15th century CE

    She hangs at his neck, braced against a wall, in Burton's rendering.

  • Maithuna standing carryIndian (medieval temple tradition) →

    Khajuraho & Konark temple sculpture — Chandela and Eastern Ganga sculptors · c. 950–1250 CE

    Carved on the temple walls of Khajuraho — the shastra's carry rendered in stone.

  • The carried postureItalian (Renaissance) →

    I Modi (The Sixteen Postures) — Giulio Romano, engraved by Raimondi; sonnets by Pietro Aretino · 1524–1527 CE

    Among the sixteen engraved postures of the Renaissance set.

Depicted in the historical record

Museum-attested works showing this arrangement · full timeline →

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, suspended_congress, leg_lock, vaginal, standing

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

Image to video (Thrust (deep))

long-range reciprocating motion along the body axis, full amplitude, torso following the hips, 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.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

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

  • Q11597758exact
  • suspended_congressexact
  • Avalambitaka (suspended congress)closeKama Sutra

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

  • Driving the Peg HomecloseThe Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight

    Attested source name. She hangs at his neck, braced against a wall, in Burton's rendering.

  • Maithuna standing carrycloseKhajuraho & Konark temple sculpture

    Attested source name. Carved on the temple walls of Khajuraho, the shastra's carry rendered in stone.

  • The carried posturecloseI Modi (The Sixteen Postures)

    Attested source name. Among the sixteen engraved postures of the Renaissance set.

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 intermittent.

Idle / micro-motionPose settleApproachCaressKissEntryThrust (shallow)Thrust (deep) (characteristic)Thrust and holdGrind (rocking)RepositionClimax reaction

Camera moves that suit the geometry: Orbit (360), Arc (partial), Crane up.

Also known ascarryfuckingtower standdaishuki holdstanding carry
Kama Sutra: Avalambitaka (suspended congress)Wikidata Q11597758 →

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