Or so I thought, until I started having better doggy style sex. So, after years of grinning, bearing and dutifully arching my back, I’ve decided I’m simply never having doggy style sex again. I tend to find it physically uncomfortable, sexually unsatisfying, mentally unstimulating and emotionally unfulfilling. I realize that in decrying other women as pick-me girls for simply enjoying a very standard sex position I am perpetuating the internalized misogyny at the heart of pick-me-ism and essentially just trying to establish myself as some kind of reverse pick-me girl who isn’t like the other girls who aren’t like the other girls because I hate doggy style sex, but I do. She doesn’t need all that silly humanizing intimacy or physical comfort that boring, uptight girls are always demanding in bed, she’s just glad you’re having fun railing her in a position named after a literal animal. She’s not like the other girls: she actually likes beer, sports and having her cervix pounded while trying not to suffocate in the pillow her face is currently stuffed into. Whether fairly or not, I’ve always seen a woman going out of her way to declare doggy style her favorite sex position as a sure sign she’s a pick-me girl. While doggy style sex regularly ranks high on lists of best sex positions and generally enjoys a better reputation than its arguably stodgier, less cool cousin, missionary, I’ve never been a huge fan myself - to the extent that I’ve often wondered whether everyone else actually likes it as much as they pretend to or if we all just want to sound cool.ĭon’t get me wrong, I’m more than willing to believe that most men like hitting it from behind as much as they say they do, but as a vagina-having woman, I’ve often been skeptical of other vagina-havers who claim to have a pronounced enthusiasm for doggy. In the immortal words of 2 Live Crew: “Face down, ass up, that’s the way we like to fuck.” Or that’s the way some of us like to, anyway.

Doggystyle position