Widely Opened

M/F · Vaginal penetration · Penetrating partner on top

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Widely Opened 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
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

Side profileLow angleWide / full body

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.

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, missionary, on_back, arched_back, boy_on_top, 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 missionary is broader than this position: missionary fixes only that the receiver lies on the back facing the partner, so it carries the catalog's whole supine family, legs-on-shoulders and yawning among them, on the same footing. It discards the tilt that defines this entry, the head and shoulders lowered and the hips raised toward the partner above, which arched_back restores only as a bend of the spine. anvil_position names the tilt but cannot stand in: its wiki also asks for the legs spread wide on the floor, and the tag is already exact for the catalog's anvil entry, where a kneeling partner lifts the hips.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

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

  • missionarybroadershared with 26 other positions

    missionary fixes only that the receiver lies on the back facing the partner, so it carries the catalog's whole supine family, legs-on-shoulders and yawning among them, on the same footing. It discards the tilt that defines this entry, the head and shoulders lowered and the hips raised toward the partner above, which arched_back restores only as a bend of the spine. anvil_position names the tilt but cannot stand in: its wiki also asks for the legs spread wide on the floor, and the tag is already exact for the catalog's anvil entry, where a kneeling partner lifts the hips.

  • Utphallaka (the widely opened position)closeKama Sutra

    Attested source name. Burton renders it as the receiving partner lowering the head and raising the hips. He gives it as one of the Deer-woman's ways of lying down and leaves the partner's posture open, so the partner lying over is the catalog's staging.

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 (rocking)RepositionClimax reaction

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

Also known asutphallakaraised hips missionaryopen flower position
Kama Sutra: Utphallaka (the widely opened position)

Related positions

Yawning positionAlternating PartnersAmazonAnvilBallet dancer (leg on shoulder, standing)Belly to Belly
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