The Swing
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Receiving partner on top
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Keypoint template
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
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.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.