For anyone who’s tried the cowgirl or reverse cowgirl, you also know that the person on top is resting almost all of their weight on the person on the bottom, more specifically, on their penile area, as explained by physiotherapist, Saila Insua Lopez (via New York Post).
This is not only a workout for the “cowgirl,” whose knees, leg muscles, and joints can start to hurt after a while, but it is also dangerous in terms of the person on top coming down hard on an engorged penis and potentially bending it the wrong way. A penis crashing into firm pubic bone doesn’t sound pretty (ouch). If you thought the death grip was problematic for a man’s sexual health, try a fractured penis because of a sex position gone wrong.
Plus, with the reverse cowgirl, there’s the added danger of not being able to have eye contact, a shared urologist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Dr. Nikolaos Pyrgides (via The Guardian), who has conducted similar research into sexual activity and penile injury. For individuals who visit the doctor after this injury has occurred, “their penis often looks like an eggplant,” said Dr. Pyrgides.
