• kemsat@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I thought it was because the 6 is a dude with his dick out, and 9 is a girl with her tits out, or the 9 is another dude flipped around…

      • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Yes it is! One person one way, one person the other. From the 180 perspective, the same.

        The participants are thus mutually inverted like the numerals 6 and 9 in the number 69

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)

        Unless you’re meaning it specifically has to be 2 digits, and therefore XIX doesn’t qualify? If so that’s fair (it was just the closest analogue I could think of. Maybe II would indeed be better).

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          9 months ago

          I can’t believe I have to explain this, but the key to 69 is that the two “people” are in opposite directions to reach other, not that the pair looks the same from either direction.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          I think you passed over two people having sex, and went right to a three way