“Lateral coital position” and why some prefer it

I have never fucked in this position. Basically it’s where the woman (or person getting penetrated) is on top and the man (or person penetrating) is lying on his back. Each has one leg straight and one leg bent outwards, with the woman rolled a little to the side so that her weight is on one arm and her straight leg.

Masters and Johnson, the famous sexologists, claimed that 70% of straight couples who tried it claimed it was their new favorite position. Supposed advantages were that both partners could actively move their pelvises and neither was pinned.

Frankly I don’t see the appeal. There’s this whole multi-step process for getting in this position… I think Larry Niven alludes to this in the first chapter of “Ringworld” as a joke about complicated sex positions, in fact.

And frankly, just as with scissoring, which I’m convinced a man invented for porn, there’s this absolute lack of a power dynamic to this position. No one is pinned down and both partners are in essentially mirrored positions, with the man’s dick bent 30 degrees to the side. Maybe some people like this, like, egalitarian type of sex, but to me it would just feel like cuddling with light penetration.

If I am feeling subby, I want to be pinned. I want my partner’s weight slamming into my spread thighs and the face of my pelvis. I don’t want to be able to get away. If I’m doing doggy style I want my wrists pulled and my face forced down into the bed. And if I’m feeling dominant I want to make my partner feel pinned and passive. I want to make eye contact and order him to come, then keep riding him after he’s come, watch him go all bloodless and suddenly tired and beg for me to stop.

I just wonder if there are people for whom sex can be an activity without a power dynamic. I don’t mean that one partner should get hurt or that one partner should always play the same role… it’s just that it’s hard to conceptualize making love without one person exposing vulnerability (whether that’s an orifice or an appendage) and another person using a powerful part of their body (which, again, could be an orifice or an appendage) to take that vulnerability and make it into a breach between two bodies where the two are pleasurably combined.

Never tried it, not super interested. Our current ‘odd’ position involves me on my side, bottom leg straight out, top leg bent up, hips kind of cocked so the top hip points to my head, him straddling my lower leg and entering either hole.

No pressure points, hands are free to do all kinds of things and he has unfettered access to all my happy spots. Current fav variant is him in my cunt with a vibe in my ass. He says it makes me feel like a living sex toy 🤣

@Nurse_Phillips I guess I can visualize that… where does your top leg end up? Just bent out of the way? On his shoulder? I’m imagining him upright, is that correct?

I have to say this is genuinely a new one on me. I’ve never seen this in any book of sex positions or heard it described. I’ll have to try it the next time I’m getting fucked.

My most adventurous position is probably, one might call it reverse reverse missionary, or reverse Amazon. In this the man is on his back with his legs spread in the air, but instead of me lying on top of him with his dick in me and my legs together, I take him anally facing away from him, basically like I’m sitting on his dick but with him in this vulnerable position where I’m pounding his pelvis with my whole ass as I ride him.

I cannot visualize this position. To me "lateral coitus" is more like a woman (or person getting penetrated) lying on the side, bent and buttocks sticking out, with a man (or person equipped with a strapon dildo) lying too on the side and penetrating the vagina or anus from behind; a kind of lying down doggy-style.

@VermouthEnemaKatie sorta wrapped around his hip or sometimes on his shoulder depending on how straight my pelvis is. Yes he’s vertical and I’m horizontal

Apparently it’s a thing. Kama Sutra called it ‘Bow’, Cosmo ‘side wind her’ and Woman’s health ‘pretzel dip’ 🤣🤣

@Jacana

This isn’t why people usually mean when they say Lateral Coital, but your version makes more sense to be called that.

The Wikipedia article on Lateral Coital Position is interesting. It has an illustration that resemble what is being described… but not exactly. It also has the weird Masters and Johnson statistic that I mentioned.

@VermouthEnemaKatie I happened to have a video of us doing it in that position. Kind of a close up but you get the gist https://en.zity.biz/gallery/image/290274

@Nurse_Phillips oh, very nice! Thanks for sharing it!

We’ve done this or a close bastardization of it. However we typically preferred one or the other to be in control of the tempo or intensity ( e.g. fucking the other). Other positions also avoid pinning the other down and we preferred those. Masters and Johnson recommended the Lateral position for those with premature ejaculation problems due to reduced pressure on the man.