suspended congress

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English

Etymology

Calque of Sanskrit अवलम्बितक रत (avalambitaka rata), from the Kama Sutra.[1]

Noun

suspended congress (uncountable)

  1. (sex, idiomatic) A sex position which consists of one participant carrying the other while penetrating them.
    Synonym: ekiben

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References

  1. ^ Vātsyāyana (1925) part II, chapter VI, in The Hindoo Kama Shastra Society, transl., The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, page 52:
    When a man supports himself against a wall, and the woman, sitting on his hands joined together and held underneath her, throws her arms round his neck, and putting her thighs alongside his waist, moves herself by her feet, which are touching the wall against which the man is leaning, it is called the “suspended congress.”