Sex Positions

Sexual intercourse may be performed in a wide variety of sex positions, the most common ones being:

• missionary position - the woman lying on her back, the man on top and facing her
• doggy style - the woman on hands and knees, the man kneeling behind her (in Latin coitus more ferarum "sex in the manner of beasts")
• cowgirl - slang term describing a position in which the man is on his back with the woman kneeling or squatting on top
• spooning - both partners lying on their sides, the man entering from behind