Facesitting, also known
as kinging or queening, is a sexual practice in which
a sexual partner sits on or over the other partner's
face, typically to allow oral-genital or oral-anal
contact. It is common for this position to form part
of BDSM, involving dominance and submission, though
this need not be the case.
Facesitting is most common among dominant women
and submissive men, and also vice-versa, as a form
of demonstrating superiority as well as for sexual
gratification. It is also practiced by vanilla couples,
who use this position for woman on top cunnilingus
(with the woman kneeling over the man, and sitting
on his upper chest rather than face), or irrumatio
and teabagging.
The difference between facesitting and the similar
practice of smothering is that in the latter, the
partner being smothered is deprived of air, while
facesitting does not necessarily involve oxygen
deprivation. The full-weight body-pressure, moisture,
feminine odors and darkness can be perceived as
powerful sexual attractions or compulsions. The
person sat upon may or may not be in bondage, sexually
submissive, or simply held down by the body-weight
of the other person. Sometimes special furniture
is used, such as a smotherbox or queening stool.
