Tiger's Tread
M/F · Vaginal penetration · From behind
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- From behind
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Front to back
- Dynamics
- Thrusting
- Support / surface
- Flat surface / bed
- Participant count
- Two
- Composition code
- M/F
- Source medium
- Illustrative
- Physical difficulty
- Low
- Prevalence in adult media
- Common
- Intensity tier (compliance)
- Explicit
Common camera framing
Description: The receiving partner crouches low on the elbows and knees with the hips high, and the penetrating partner kneels behind. The crouch is deeper than a standard all-fours position, which drops the chest and steepens the angle of the back.
Variations: Forearms flat or hands clasped in front, knees close together or wide, and the head turned to the side rather than down.
On camera: The steep back line is what distinguishes it from a flat rear entry, and only a profile or a low angle shows it. From behind the two look identical.
AI design considerations: A crouched figure with the shoulders below hip height and a strong downward slope through the spine. The steep angle is the identifying feature and is what a default all-fours skeleton will not give.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Tiger's TreadChinese (Han dynasty tradition) →
Su Nü Jing (Classic of the Plain Girl) — attributed to the Plain Girl dialogues with the Yellow Emperor · c. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE; preserved in the Japanese Ishimpō (984 CE)
Second of the Nine Ways: entry from behind with the receiving partner crouched.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.