# Names of sexual positions in other languages **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 10, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317 "2005-11-10T00:29:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/41 "2005-11-12T02:07:34Z")
\ I’ve got a book here titled “Scheisse! The REAL German You Were Never Taught in School,” by Gertrude Besserwisser, 1994. I think there might have been a series of these for other languages. Er, Gurtrude “Know-it-All” (literally, “knows more”) -? Somehow, I think that’s a pseudonym. Just guessing, mind you. I don’t know how accurate it is, but more to the off-point, it doesn’t list sexual positions, just some sexual slang. Down and dirty, German and English are cousins, so of course “fuck” versus “ficken”, “breasts” versus “die Brueste”, and others. “Schlafen miteinander” versus “sleep together”, a literal translation. A few curious entries: another term for fucking is the verb “voegeln” - to mate like birds. One term for “stud” is “Hecht” - that is, a pike (fish, that is). Any comments from ein echtiger Deutschspracher? A genuine German speaker? Or never mind. You may now return to the actual OP. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/42 "2005-11-12T02:17:59Z")
In Spanish to come is “venirse”. That little I know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/43 "2005-11-12T06:28:46Z")
Hmm a position called the “cowgirl”. I suppose looking at that from the male perspective it would be called “Lazy-Boy”. Not exactly a sexual position, but the French term for cunnulingus is “faire minette”. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/44 "2005-11-30T14:52:30Z")
> [@Zog\_10](#): > > I don’t believe this is at all based in reality, but I was re-reading [Shogun](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0440178002/103-1107411-0609455?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance) and they keep talking about the moment when one reaches “The Clouds and the Rain”. > > Also, the wealth of terms for the male genitals in that book are funny (at least to me). Pagoda of Pleasure is the one that I can think of. I recall they called the male organ the “Sacred Stalk” and the female organ, the “Jade Gate”. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/45 "2005-11-30T15:17:25Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > I recall they called the male organ the “Sacred Stalk” and the female organ, the “Jade Gate”. I am fairly sure that if I attempted to actually use these terms with my Japanese husband that would be the end of any frolicking while he passed out with mirth. Or disbelief. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/46 "2005-11-30T15:39:31Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > Is the expression “giving head” common to other languages? Not in the Netherlands. We use 'blow-job, ofcourse, because we’ve taken a lot of English words, but the real Dutch word is ‘pijpen’ - which means ‘piping’, or smoking a pipe. :o [I thought this smiley appropriate] Sexual positions are about the same. The erm… word f_cking is only used as a curse word. For f_ucking we use the word ‘neuken’. Fokking, or Fokker are normal Dutch names. Fokker was an airline company and the Fokker F16 is still a good airplane. Fokker = breeder. Anything else I can tell ya? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/47 "2005-11-30T21:03:30Z")
How about 68? You do me and I’ll owe you one. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/48 "2005-12-01T00:41:25Z")
> [@gum](#): > > Anything else I can tell ya? Yeah. What’s the asterisk for in f\*ucking? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317/49 "2005-12-01T00:57:11Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Not exactly a sexual position, but the French term for cunnulingus is “faire minette”. I’m proud to say that my wife calls it a “more-than-fair minute and a half!” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-of-sexual-positions-in-other-languages/330317.md?page=2)