17 Sex Positions for Multiple Orgasms, According to Certified Sexperts

How to Do It: The Coital Alignment Technique (CAT) is a way of arranging yourselves so that you’ll get more clitoral contact during penetration. To do it, get in missionary, then your partner shifts their body more toward your head so that their public bone and the top of shaft of their penis or strap-on is rubbing along your clit. Instead of thrusting in and out, your partner grinds against you.

Pros: This is the gold standard for getting as much clit stimulation as possible during penetrative sex alone.

Cons: No matter how methodically you angle yourselves, penetrative sex might not be orgasmic for you. Totally normal—give it a try, then switch to something that does work.

Switch It Up: After an orgasm, just stay in the position, kissing and talking until your vulva feels ready for more. Start rolling your hips for round two.

Make It Hotter: A dollop of slippery arousal oil between you will make every slide and grind feel sublime.

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How to Do It: Stimulate your mind as well as your body. Lie on your belly and have your partner lie on top of you. Put a lubed hand or toy under your vulva. They whisper a filthy fantasy into your ear as they thrust, or you can both listen to a favorite erotic story.

Pros: Getting lost in a fantasy can help you get more turned on, and most likely multiply your orgasms.

Cons: Your partner must be very attuned to what you’re into. Give them some ideas ahead of time about what kinds of fantasies you’d like to hear.

Switch It Up: If you’re more into visuals, put on a sexy movie scene and watch while you move against each other.

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How to Do It: Have one partner sit with their legs in front of them and bent. You sit on their penis or strap-on and lean back onto your hands, like a crab crawl, angling yourself to find the deepest spots in your vagina.

Pros: This position helps you get to the A-spot (aka the anterior fornix erogenous zone) located deep in the vagina on the upper wall, right against the cervix. A-spot contact alone probably won’t give you an orgasm, but it can make you much wetter and lead to enhanced orgasms.

Cons: If you experience pain with sex, going deeper might not work. If the position starts to feel painful, back up or stop completely.

Switch It Up: You can experiment solo with a specially designed A-spot toy. May we suggest a rabbit style vibrator with clit stim?

Make It Hotter: Stay in place and use your hand to give yourself an orgasm while your partner watches. If they have a penis, they’ll feel you squeeze around them.

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How to Do It: Lie back and use hands, toys, or oral to get close to orgasm, but not quite there. “My number one practice is called ‘No penetration until I am begging for it!’ By ‘begging for it,’ I mean so turned on and ready that you literally have to have it now,” says Carli Jo Cabrera, a speaker and sensuality coach, who went from having no orgasms to multiple. When you succumb, you won’t much care what position you end up in, so go with a simple missionary.

Pros: The more build up, the better the orgasm(s). “Penetration often happens before a person is ready, so this is geared to prevent that. When slow and steady buildup is paired with the full engorgement of the clitoral tissue, multiple orgasms are more likely to be achieved,” she says.

Cons: It might take a while to want it now. “I let my clients know that this practice of waiting until you’re begging for it might take minutes, hours, or days, and that’s ok!” she says.

Switch It Up: Turn it around and give your partner the same deliciously torturous treatment.

Make It Hotter: Being bound or restrained can help some people calm a chattering brain and relax into submission.

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How to Do It: For maximum exposure with minimal eye contact, lie on your stomach, arching your back so your butt is in the air. Your partner kneels behind, giving you oral from behind.

Pros: “There is something about being this ‘exposed’ to your lover that can feel both erotic and naughty,” says Shasta Townsend, author of Happy, Sexy, Shameless: What Our Mothers Didn’t Know About the Birds and the Bees.

Cons: Lack of eye contact. If it feels disconnected, reach back to hold hands, or they can stroke your thighs or ass affectionately.

Switch It Up: They can play with your ass (if wanted) or slide fingers inside your vagina.

Make It Hotter: Add some penetration, either anally or vaginally.

How to Do It: If being on top has never quite done it for you, try adjusting your position. Britney Blair, PsyD, co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Lover, recommends allowing the shaft of your partner’s penis or dildo to rub against the top of the vaginal opening, rather than simply going straight in as it would with your regular positioning. “Try to curl your pelvis in, almost as if you’re doing an ab crunch. But at the same time, maintain contact between your clitoris and your partner’s pubic bone,” says Blair. Grind so that you’re getting maximum contact.

Pros: This version can give you more direct clit stimulation.

Cons: Your bodies might have large size difference that may make this trickier. Feel free to stick pillows anywhere you want to ease the way.

Switch It Up: Lean back onto your hands to switch from grinding and clit stim to having the penis or strap-on rub against the top wall of your vagina.

Make It Hotter: For an extra explosive orgasm, wait until you’re very close, then lean back, with your partner still inside you, and stroke yourself while they watch.

How to Do It: Sit your butt on the edge of a counter while your partner stands in front of you. Tease them by stroking yourself to orgasm. Try for another (or more) by adding internal stim with your partner standing to penetrate, or using their fingers or a toy to press against the top wall of your vagina.

Pros: Very easy access to pretty much any type of stimulation you want.

Cons: If you’re going for penetration, the height might not work out. Try a sturdy dresser or table instead.

Switch It Up: As you stroke yourself to your first orgasm, have you partner touch themselves too. You’ll inspire each other.

Make It Hotter: Want to go for orgasm number three? Order a side of oral if you can take it.

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How to Do It: Lie on your back. Have your partner lie next to you, kneeling beside your hips or between your legs. Tell them what you want, exactly as you want it. They do as you ask.

Pros: You get to be touched exactly as you’d like, with adjustments in real time. Your partner will get hands-on learning on what kinds of touch turns you on.

Cons: Sometimes, the way a partner touches you is not going to be quite what you need. Instead of hoping they’ll just magically get it, take their hand and guide it.

Switch It Up: To amp it up, throw in an add-on you’ve never tried like a new vibe or a butt plug and you can learn about it together.

Make It Hotter: You can lean into BDSM and power dynamics by being extra bossy and giving your partner instructions like “Kiss my foot” or “Touch yourself for me.”

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How to Do It: Your partner lies on their back. Straddle them, keeping your weight on your hands and knees. Lower your pelvis so you’re lightly sitting on their face. You’ll be between a hover and a full sit.

Pros: Focused oral stimulation that you’re the boss of.

Cons: Can be uncomfortable for the person down below. Give them a pillow to rest their head on and make sure you’re not mushing their face.

Switch It Up: Trade spots after, or switch back and forth during, building up tension.

Make It Hotter: Arch your back and rock your hips so your vulva glides up and down their mouth.

How to Do It: Lie on your belly, pressing your legs tightly together. Cup a lubed-up hand over your vulva or press a toy against you. Your partner lies on top of you to enter from behind.

Pros: Your legs pressed together make a tighter fit and you can grind against your hand for clit stim.

Cons: Not as great if your partner has a smaller penis or strap-on. Prop a pillow or sex wedge under your hips for better access.

Switch It Up: Change up your stimulation, press forward and down onto your hand when you crave more clit stim, press back when you want more of the D or strap-on.

Make It Hotter: Tighten the feel by squeezing and doing your Kegel exercises.

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How to Do It: Lie on a bed and scoot your hips to the edge. Your partner stands. You can bend your knees toward your body or wrap your legs around them—whatever gives them the best access to you. Your partner moves a lubed finger in excruciatingly slow circles around your clit, then levels up with more intense rubbing, then slides a curved finger inside.

Pros: A slow build, plus pairing internal and external stimulation is key to multiple orgasms.

Cons: The angle might not work for your partner’s height. A dining table or kitchen island can work too.

Switch It Up: For round two, your partner slides in while you rub yourself or use a toy.

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How to Do It: Get on all fours, like in doggy. Straddle a sex pillow (or rolled up towels). Rub against the pillow for more clit love while your partner kneels behind you to penetrate with penis or strap-on.

Pros: The deep penetration of doggy coupled with much more clit stim than regular doggy.

Cons: No eye contact. Keep connected with moans and sighs.

Switch It Up: Control the speed of the thrusting by pushing back onto your partner while they stay still.

Make It Hotter: Fire up a vibe and prop it between you and the pillow.

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How to Do It: Scoot your butt to the edge of the bed so your partner can kneel and get to work. This works best if you start with a gentle, clit-only orgasm, then move to a deep whole-V kind. For part one, gentle licks and sucks. For part two, they can slide a curved finger inside of you for firm and steady internal stim while they continue with oral attention.

Pros: Oral is a great way to try for multiple orgasms because you can get more orgasm-inducting direct clitoral stimulation.

Cons: Some folks feel self-conscious about letting their partner be all up in their privates. If this is you, please know that your partner wants to be there and please you. If you feel like you want to freshen up, feel free to wash up beforehand.

Switch It Up: Try rubbing your clit while they tongue your vagina. Or slide a vibrating G-spot toy inside you while they suck on your clit.

Make It Hotter: For more control, flip it over so you’re sitting on their face.

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How to Do It: If you want or crave different stimulation during missionary, lie on your side with a pillow under your head. Your partner kneels by your butt with a knee between your legs so they’re straddling your lower leg, and your upper leg goes over their thigh. Angle yourself to focus stimulation on one side, and if/when you have an orgasm, shift to the other side and try again.

Pros: Lots of eye contact and your hands are free to touch and stroke each other.

Cons: No matter what angles are happening, penetrative sex alone might not be orgasmic for most people with vulvas. Bring in a hand or toy for the assist.

Switch It Up: Grind against your partner’s upper thigh for extra stimulation.

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How to Do It: Have your partner get on top like in missionary, then put your legs inside theirs and press them tightly together. Shift down a little so you can grind against the top of their shaft. You do all the moving, your partner stays still.

Pros: The angle change allows you to grind and get more direct stimulation on your clit. Also good for partners with a smaller penis or strap on.

Cons: Some penis-having partners will need a more thrusting movement to have an orgasm. It’s okay to let them wait.

Switch It Up: Trade off on thrusting duties to mix up the stimulation.

Make It Hotter: For round two, your partner lifts themselves onto their hands to create enough room so you can rub yourself as they thrust.

How to Do It: If you get super sensitive after an orgasm, a seated position is your friend. Sit on your partner’s lap facing away for orgasm number one. After, when you think you can’t take anymore, they gently cup your V with their whole hand. As your body parts calm down a little, they start with a slow rub using their whole hand. Increase as necessary.

Pros: Gives a sensitive post-orgasmic vulva a gentler touch.

Cons: Your partner might not give the kind of touch you want. So very normal. No one magically knows what you like. Guide their hand and show them.

Switch It Up: This absolutely works as a non-penetrative position.

Make It Hotter: How many times can you have an orgasm? Let’s see!