Widely Opened
M/F · Vaginal penetration · Penetrating partner on top
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Keypoint template
Attributes
- Position family
- One-on-one
- Primary act
- Vaginal penetration
- Partner arrangement
- Penetrating partner on top
- Penetration type
- Vaginal
- Facing
- Face to face
- Dynamics
- Thrusting
- 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: A missionary arrangement in which the receiving partner drops the head and shoulders and lifts the hips, tilting the pelvis up toward the penetrating partner. The classical texts treat the tilt itself as the position rather than a modifier of another one, because it changes the angle of entry without changing anything else about the arrangement.
Variations: The lift can be held by the receiving partner's own abdominal work, propped on a wedge or folded pillow, or carried by the penetrating partner's hands under the hips. Raising the head instead of lowering it turns it into an ordinary missionary again.
On camera: Shot low and in profile, because the whole point is the pelvic tilt and a level camera flattens it. The raised hip line is what distinguishes the frame from a stock missionary.
AI design considerations: Two stacked figures with a pronounced upward pelvic rotation on the lower one. The spine should read as a shallow arc with the lowest point at the shoulders, not a flat horizontal.
Historical provenance
Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →
- Utphallaka (the widely opened position)Indian (Gupta era) →
Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE
Burton renders it as the receiving partner lowering the head and raising the hips.
Related positions
Part of the Erotic Pose Catalog open dataset · CC BY 4.0 · keypoints are idealised COCO-17 templates.