The Swing

M/F · Vaginal penetration · Receiving partner on top

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The Swing 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
Receiving partner on top
Penetration type
Vaginal
Facing
Face to face
Dynamics
Grinding
Support / surface
Flat surface / bed
Participant count
Two
Composition code
M/F
Source medium
Both
Physical difficulty
Low
Prevalence in adult media
Common
Intensity tier (compliance)
Explicit

Common camera framing

Side profileLow anglePOV (penetrating)

Description: The receiving partner sits astride and drives a front-to-back rocking rather than a vertical rise and fall. The classical texts separate it from ordinary astride positions precisely because of the motion, not the shape.

Variations: Hands braced on the chest, reaching back to the thighs, or held by the partner at the hips to widen the arc. Shifting to a vertical bounce turns it into a plain cowgirl.

On camera: The horizontal travel is easier to read than a bounce, so it holds a wide profile shot longer than most astride work.

AI design considerations: An astride figure with the pelvis rotated forward and the torso tilted back off vertical. The tilt is what separates it from a neutral seated straddle.

Historical provenance

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

  • The swingIndian (Gupta era) →

    Kama Sutra · Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE

    Grouped with the positions where the receiving partner takes the active role.

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, cowgirl_position, straddling, leaning_back, on_back, on_bed

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

Image to video (Ride (grind))

upper figure stays seated and moves forward and back, no vertical travel, 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 cowgirl_position is broader than this position: cowgirl_position fixes only that the receiver straddles a supine partner while facing them, and it is the tag the catalog's cowgirl, prone-cowgirl and leaning-back-cowgirl entries already share. It discards what names the swing, the front-to-back rocking in place of a vertical rise and fall, which no documented tag carries, and the slight backward tilt of the torso, which leaning_back only approximates.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

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

  • cowgirl_positionbroadershared with 6 other positions

    cowgirl_position fixes only that the receiver straddles a supine partner while facing them, and it is the tag the catalog's cowgirl, prone-cowgirl and leaning-back-cowgirl entries already share. It discards what names the swing, the front-to-back rocking in place of a vertical rise and fall, which no documented tag carries, and the slight backward tilt of the torso, which leaning_back only approximates.

  • The swingrelatedKama Sutra

    Attested source name. Grouped with the positions where the receiving partner takes the active role. In Burton the swing is the man lifting the middle of his body while the woman turns hers round, a turning of the hips rather than the front-to-back rocking this entry describes.

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 settleApproachCaressEntryThrust (shallow)Thrust and holdRide (grind) (characteristic)Grind (rocking)Grind (circular)RepositionClimax reactionAftermath

Camera moves that suit the geometry: Arc (partial), Locked off, POV (head-mounted), Pull out.

Also known ashindolaswinging cowgirlrocking astride
Kama Sutra: The swing

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The TreeThe TwisterThe WaterfallThe WraparoundThe XThree-Man Double Team
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Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.