This allows the penetrating partner to go deeper, so you can stretch out your vagina and your hamstring at the same time. Starting from the closed box position, the receiving partner lifts a leg so that their foot is near the penetrating partner’s head and their leg is resting against their body. With a name like this, we’re glad we don’t live in a time where jousting was a sport. Provided your partner doesn’t just stare into the wall like the person below. We’re not reinventing the wheel here (that sex position will come later) but the closed box position is intimate and accessible. This one’s an oldie, but hey, the Kama Sutra was written a long time ago! The closed box style – more commonly known as missionary – is when the receiving partner lays on their back with their legs open and the penetrating partner kneels between their legs. Try them out and let us know how they go, but don’t send us any of the medical bills. So we’ve ranked some of the sex positions in the Kama Sutra in order of difficulty. But there are some gems to be discovered within its pages.

Of course, they can’t all be winners, and we have learned a bit more about women’s pleasure since the time when the only form of a vibrator was riding in a carriage down a bumpy road. We rarely take sex advice from something so dusty, but the Kama Sutra positions have stood the test of time.

The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text on sexuality and eroticism written in Sanskrit approximately sometime between 400 BCE and 300 CE.

All karma sutra sex positions