Suspended congress (standing carry)
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Standing
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
- 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
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 literature
- 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.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.