The Corkscrew

M/F · Vaginal penetration · Side-lying

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The Corkscrew 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
Side-lying
Penetration type
Vaginal
Facing
Variable
Dynamics
Thrusting
Support / surface
Edge of surface
Participant count
Two
Composition code
M/F
Source medium
Video
Physical difficulty
Moderate
Prevalence in adult media
Occasional
Intensity tier (compliance)
Explicit

Common camera framing

Side profileLow angleWide / full body

Description: The receiving partner lies on one side at the edge of the bed with both legs together and extended over the edge, while the penetrating partner stands. Keeping the legs closed and rotated to one side narrows the angle sharply, which is the entire reason to choose it.

Variations: Legs straight out or bent at the knee, and the receiving partner rolled further toward the mattress or back toward the ceiling to change the twist.

On camera: The standing partner and the horizontal body line make a strong right-angle composition, and the closed legs read as tension in a way open positions do not.

AI design considerations: A side-lying figure at a surface edge with legs together and a standing figure alongside. The closed legs are the identifying feature, so avoid the default abduction a side-lying skeleton usually carries.

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, on_side, legs_together, outstretched_legs, standing, bedside, on_bed

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. The tag on_side is broader than this position: on_side records only that a character lies on one flank, so it covers spooning and non-sexual side-lying alike, and it already carries the catalog's lateral-coital and pretzel entries. It discards the edge staging and the closed legs that define this entry: the receiver at the edge of the bed with both legs together and extended over it, rotated to one side, and the penetrating partner standing alongside, and it does not record that penetration occurs at all. legs_together, outstretched_legs, bedside and standing restore those features only as separate postures.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

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

  • on_sidebroadershared with 5 other positions

    on_side records only that a character lies on one flank, so it covers spooning and non-sexual side-lying alike, and it already carries the catalog's lateral-coital and pretzel entries. It discards the edge staging and the closed legs that define this entry: the receiver at the edge of the bed with both legs together and extended over it, rotated to one side, and the penetrating partner standing alongside, and it does not record that penetration occurs at all. legs_together, outstretched_legs, bedside and standing restore those features only as separate postures.

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 settleApproachDisrobeCaressKissEntryThrust (shallow)Thrust (deep) (characteristic)Thrust and holdGrind (circular)Grind (rocking)Manual strokeRepositionClimax reactionAftermath

Camera moves that suit the geometry: Arc (partial), Locked off, Push in, Pull out.

Also known asside entry at the edgeclosed leg edgetwisted edge entry

Related positions

Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.