Editing Sex position (section)

===Penetrating partner on top with front entry===
{{See also|Missionary position}}
In the [[missionary position]], the participants face each other. The receiving partner lies on their back with legs apart, while the penetrating partner lies on top. This position and the following variations may be used for [[Sexual intercourse|vaginal]] or [[Anal sex|anal intercourse]].

*The penetrating partner stands in front of the receiving partner, whose legs dangle over the edge of a bed or some other platform like a table.<ref name="colville">{{cite book |last1=Nafzawi |first1=Muhammad ibn Muhammad al |last2=Colville |first2=Jim |title=The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight |volume=7|date=13 October 2013 |publisher=Kegan Paul International |isbn=978-0-7103-0644-9 |language=Arabic}}</ref>
*With the receiving partner's legs lifted towards the ceiling and resting against the penetrating partner, this is sometimes called the ''butterfly position''. This can also be done as a kneeling position.
*The receiving partner lies on their back. The penetrating partner stands and lifts the receiving partner's pelvis for penetration. A variant is for the receiving partner to rest their legs on the penetrating partner's shoulders.
*The receiving partner lies on their back, legs pulled up straight and knees near to the head. The penetrating partner holds the receiving partner's legs and penetrates from above.
*Similarly to the previous position, but the receiving partner's legs need not be straight and the penetrating partner wraps their arms around the receiving partner to push the legs as close as possible to the chest. Called ''the stopperage'' in Burton's translation of ''[[The Perfumed Garden]]''.<ref name="perfumed garden">''The Perfumed Garden'', Shaykh Nefwazi {{sic}}, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1886. [http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/garden/ full text available at Internet Sacred Text Archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903185700/http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/garden/ |date=2006-09-03 }}</ref>
*The ''[[coital alignment technique]]'', a position where a woman is vaginally penetrated by a man, and the penetrating partner moves upward along the woman's body until the penis is pointing down, the dorsal side of the penis now rubbing against the clitoris.<ref name="grinding">{{cite web |last1=Castleman |first1=Michael |title=Easier Orgasms for Women in the Missionary Position |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201010/easier-orgasms-women-in-the-missionary-position |website=Psychology Today |access-date=19 February 2021 |date=17 October 2010 |quote=Enter the "coital alignment technique" (CAT). It was first introduced back in 1988 by sex researcher Edward Eichel, who claimed that it helped women have orgasms during missionary-position sex. The CAT is deceptively simple: Instead of the man lying on top of the woman chest-to-chest with his penis moving more or less horizontally, the man shifts himself forward so that his chest is closer to one of her shoulders. As a result, his penis moves more up and down. In other words, the man rides higher on the woman's pelvis, and the bony base of his penis makes more contact with the woman's clitoris.}}</ref>
*The receiving partner crosses their feet behind their head (or at least puts their feet next to their ears), while lying on their back. The penetrating partner then holds the receiving partner tightly around each instep or ankle and lies on the receiving partner full-length. A variation is to have the receiving partner cross their ankles on their stomach, knees to shoulders, and then have the penetrating partner lie on the receiving partner's crossed ankles with their full weight. Called the ''Viennese oyster'' by ''[[The Joy of Sex]]''.<ref name="joy">Comfort, Alex, ''The Joy of Sex: Fully Revised & Completely Updated for the 21st Century''. Crown. Fully rev. ed., 2002. {{ISBN|1-4000-4614-9}}, 256 pages.</ref>