The X

M/F · Vaginal penetration · Side-lying

Posed figure

The X 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
Grinding
Support / surface
Flat surface / bed
Participant count
Two
Composition code
M/F
Source medium
Illustrative
Physical difficulty
Moderate
Prevalence in adult media
Occasional
Intensity tier (compliance)
Explicit

Common camera framing

OverheadWide / full bodySide profile

Description: Both partners lie on their backs facing away from each other with the legs scissored at the hips, so from above the pair form a clean X with the heads at opposite corners. Neither partner supports the other and the movement comes entirely from the hips.

Variations: The crossing angle can be opened or closed, and either partner can prop up on the elbows to see the other.

On camera: A purely overhead position. From the side it is unreadable, and that limitation is why it appears far more in diagrams than in video.

AI design considerations: Two supine figures with heads at opposite ends and legs interleaved at the pelvis. The X should be obvious from above, which means the torsos need a wide angle between them, not a narrow one.

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_back, interlocked_legs, leg_between_thighs, spread_legs, lying, on_bed

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

Image to video (Grind (rocking))

pelvis rocks forward and back through a short arc, contact never breaking, 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_back is broader than this position: on_back is a bare posture tag, lying on one's own back, that carries no partner and no sex act, so it holds for any supine figure in any context. It discards the whole X: two supine partners with heads at opposite corners, legs scissored at the hips, and neither body supporting the other. The scissor tag cannot stand in, because scissoring is an active alias of tribadism, whose wiki limits it to female-to-female genital sex while this entry is MF, so only interlocked_legs and leg_between_thighs in the support set carry the leg weave.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

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

  • on_backbroader

    on_back is a bare posture tag, lying on one's own back, that carries no partner and no sex act, so it holds for any supine figure in any context. It discards the whole X: two supine partners with heads at opposite corners, legs scissored at the hips, and neither body supporting the other. The scissor tag cannot stand in, because scissoring is an active alias of tribadism, whose wiki limits it to female-to-female genital sex while this entry is MF, so only interlocked_legs and leg_between_thighs in the support set carry the leg weave.

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 settleApproachCaressEntryGrind (circular)Grind (rocking) (characteristic)Manual strokeRepositionClimax reactionAftermath

Camera moves that suit the geometry: Overhead descend, Locked off, Crane up, Pull out.

Also known asx positioncrossed supineopposed legs

Related positions

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