Yawning position

M/F · Vaginal penetration · Penetrating partner on top

Posed figure

Yawning position 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
Illustrative
Physical difficulty
Low
Prevalence in adult media
Occasional
Intensity tier (compliance)
Explicit

Common camera framing

Side profileLow angle

Description: The receiving partner's legs are raised and spread wide in a V while the penetrating partner kneels upright between them — the Kama Sutra's "yawning" of the limbs.

Variations: Legs resting against the partner's arms or held at the ankles; width of the V varies.

On camera: Low-angle framing reads the open V; the kneeling partner keeps the frame uncluttered.

AI design considerations: A supine figure with raised legs splayed to a wide V and an upright kneeler between — leg spread angle is the signature.

Historical provenance

Where this position appears in historical sex manuals, erotic art & literature · full timeline →

  • Jrimbhitaka (the yawning position)Indian (Gupta era) →

    Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana · c. 3rd century CE

  • Phoenix SoaringChinese (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)

    Legs raised wide while the partner kneels between.

  • The reclined unionPersian & Mughal →

    Persian & Mughal erotic miniatures — Safavid, Qajar and Mughal court ateliers · 16th–19th century CE

    Legs-raised reclining scenes recur across the Safavid and Mughal albums.

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, wide_spread_legs, legs_up, on_back, kneeling, 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 covers the whole face-to-face supine-receiver family, including the chest-to-chest, coital-alignment and folded mating-press forms; it does not encode the wide V of raised, spread legs or the penetrating partner kneeling upright between them rather than lying over the receiver.

Identifiers in other vocabularies

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

  • missionarybroadershared with 5 other positions

    missionary covers the whole face-to-face supine-receiver family, including the chest-to-chest, coital-alignment and folded mating-press forms; it does not encode the wide V of raised, spread legs or the penetrating partner kneeling upright between them rather than lying over the receiver.

  • Jrimbhitaka (the yawning position)closeKama Sutra

    Attested historical name for this position in the named source; the source wording may describe a variant of the general form.

  • Phoenix SoaringcloseSu Nü Jing (Classic of the Plain Girl)

    Attested source name. Legs raised wide while the partner kneels between.

  • The reclined unionclosePersian & Mughal erotic miniatures

    Attested source name. Legs-raised reclining scenes recur across the Safavid and Mughal albums.

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 settleApproachCaressEntryThrust (shallow)Thrust (deep) (characteristic)Thrust and holdGrind (circular)Grind (rocking)RepositionClimax reactionAftermath

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

Also known aswide-spread missionaryopen V
Kama Sutra: Jrimbhitaka (yawning)

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