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PositionQuiz

By Ian David / Updated September 2026

Four questions, three positions. No email, no account, nothing stored.

Most position lists hand you forty options and leave the choosing to you, which is the hard part and the reason people give up and run the same three forever. This does the choosing.

It asks what you have got in the tank, what you are actually after, anything sore worth avoiding, and how much you are prepared to set up. Then it matches those answers against what each of the 55 guides on this site already says about itself, and gives you three to start from.

Find One ForTonight

The quiz runs in your browser. If it has not appeared, JavaScript is switched off or has not loaded, and everything it does is written out below instead. The four questions are these:

How much is in the tank tonight?

This decides more than anything else on the list. Nothing left, A normal evening, Genuinely up for it.

What are you actually after?

Pick the one that matters most tonight, not in general. Being close, Depth, Someone in charge, Something new.

Anything worth working around?

Pick any that apply. This filters rather than scores, so nothing that loads a sore joint gets suggested. Knees, Lower back, Wrists or shoulders, Neck, Hips or hamstrings, Nothing to work around.

How much setting up?

Honestly. A position that needs a prop you will not fetch is not a position. None at all, A pillow is fine, Furniture or a wall.

Take your answers to the table further down. It carries the same attributes the quiz matches on, for all 55 positions, and you can read it straight.

How ItDecides

There is no clever model underneath this. Every position guide on the site already declares four things about itself in the strip near the top: how much effort it takes, how steep the angle is, how long it runs, and who it suits. The comfort note on each page names the joints that position actually loads. That is the whole dataset, and it was written before the quiz existed.

Energy and setup work as scores. What you are after works as a score. A sore joint works as a filter. If you tell it your wrists are complaining, every position whose own comfort note warns about wrists comes out of the results entirely rather than being nudged down the list, because a position that hurts is not a near miss.

If the filters leave nothing, it says so and shows the closest three with the filter off, labelled. It will not quietly drop the constraint and pretend it matched.

Or ChooseBy Hand

Everything the quiz reads, in one table. Sorted by how much each position asks of you, easiest first. The last column is the part worth reading first if something is already sore.

All 55 positions, by how much they ask of you
Position	Effort	Suits	Setup	Runs	Loads
Bear Hug	Very easy	Closeness, Low energy	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
Cowgirl	Very easy	Control	Nothing	Medium	knees
Doggy Style	Very easy	Depth, Control	Nothing	Medium	wrists, knees
Face Off	Very easy	Closeness, Control	Furniture or a wall	Medium	knees
Flat Iron	Very easy	Closeness, Low energy	A pillow	Runs long	nothing in particular
Lazy Positions	Very easy	Low energy, Closeness	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
Leapfrog	Very easy	Depth	Nothing	Runs long	neck, knees
Missionary	Very easy	Closeness	Nothing	Runs long	back
Pearly Gates	Very easy	Low energy, Closeness	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
Positions For The Long Haul	Very easy	Closeness, Low energy	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
Prone Bone	Very easy	Depth, Low energy	A pillow	Runs long	back
Romantic Positions	Very easy	Closeness	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
Spooning	Very easy	Closeness, Low energy	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
T-Bone	Very easy	Low energy	A pillow	Runs long	back, knees
The Captain	Very easy	Closeness, Control	Furniture or a wall	Runs long	knees, back
The Dragon	Very easy	Closeness, Low energy	A pillow	Runs long	back
Wedge Pillow	Very easy	Depth	A pillow	Runs long	nothing in particular
Anal Positions	Easy	Control	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
Coital Alignment Technique	Easy	Closeness	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
Eiffel Tower	Easy	Something new	Nothing	Medium	wrists, knees, neck
Kneeling	Easy	Closeness	A pillow	Medium	knees
Mating Press	Easy	Depth, Closeness	Nothing	Medium	hips
Reverse Cowgirl	Easy	Control, Something new	Nothing	Medium	knees
Side Saddle	Easy	Something new, Control	Nothing	Runs long	knees, hips
Sideways	Easy	Closeness, Low energy	Nothing	Runs long	nothing in particular
Spread Eagle	Easy	Depth, Closeness	A pillow	Medium	hips
The Bicycle	Easy	Depth, Something new	A pillow	Short	hips, back
The Butterfly	Easy	Depth	Furniture or a wall	Short	back, hips
The CEO	Easy	Closeness, Control	Furniture or a wall	Medium	nothing in particular
The Lotus	Easy	Closeness	A pillow	Runs long	hips, back
The Pretzel	Easy	Something new, Depth	Nothing	Medium	knees, hips
The Rhino	Easy	Depth, Closeness	A pillow	Medium	knees, back
The Scissor	Easy	Closeness, Something new	Nothing	Runs long	hips
The Spider	Easy	Control, Closeness	Nothing	Runs long	wrists
The Superman	Easy	Depth, Closeness	A pillow	Runs long	back
The Waterfall	Easy	Something new	Furniture or a wall	Short	neck
Banana Split	Takes effort	Something new	Nothing	Medium	hips
Bull Driver	Takes effort	Depth, Control	A pillow	Medium	wrists, knees
Standing Positions	Takes effort	Something new	Furniture or a wall	Short	balance, back
The 69	Takes effort	Something new, Closeness	A pillow	Medium	neck
The Amazon	Takes effort	Control, Depth	Nothing	Short	knees
The Anvil	Takes effort	Depth	A pillow	Short	hips, wrists
The Crab	Takes effort	Something new	Nothing	Short	wrists
The Cross	Takes effort	Something new	Nothing	Medium	knees
The Frog	Takes effort	Depth	A pillow	Short	knees, balance
The Triceratops	Takes effort	Control, Something new	A pillow	Short	knees, wrists
Adventurous Positions	Demanding	Something new	Furniture or a wall	Short	balance
Butter Churner	Demanding	Depth, Something new	A pillow	Short	neck
Full Nelson	Demanding	Depth, Something new	A pillow	Short	neck, hips, back
London Bridge	Demanding	Something new	Nothing	Short	back, neck
Stand And Carry	Demanding	Something new	Furniture or a wall	Short	back, balance
The Bridge	Demanding	Something new	Nothing	Short	back, wrists
The Piledriver	Demanding	Depth, Something new	A pillow	Short	neck
The Wheelbarrow	Demanding	Depth, Something new	Nothing	Short	wrists, back
Upside Down	Demanding	Something new	Nothing	Short	neck, balance

The last column is the joint each guide's own comfort note tells you to look after. It is the column worth reading first if something is already sore.

Questions PeopleAsk

How does the position quiz work?

Four questions: how much energy you have, what you are actually after, anything sore worth working around, and how much setting up you are willing to do. It matches those against what each of the 55 guides already states about itself, and returns three to start with.

Where do the recommendations come from?

From the guides themselves. Every position on this site declares its effort, its angle, how long it runs and which joints its comfort note tells you to look after. The quiz reads those attributes. Nothing is scored on opinion and nothing is collected from anyone.

Does it store my answers?

No. The quiz runs entirely in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is saved between visits. Reload the page and it has forgotten you.

What if I say a joint is sore?

That becomes a hard filter rather than a scoring nudge. Any position whose own comfort note names that joint is removed from the results completely, because suggesting it anyway would be worse than suggesting nothing.

What if nothing matches?

It tells you so, then shows the closest three with the comfort filter switched off and says that is what it did. It will not quietly pretend the filter was met.