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Facesitting, also known as kinging or queening, is a sexual practice in which one partner sits on or over the other's face, typically to allow oral-genital or oral-anal contact, or to further ass worship or body worship. 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, but also vice-versa, for demonstrating superiority and for sexual gratification. It is also practiced by vanilla sex couples for cunnilingus where the woman kneels over the man, and sits on his upper chest rather than face.

Unlike facesitting, in smothering the smothered partner is deprived of air.

The full-weight body-pressure, moisture, sex odors and darkness can be perceived as powerful sexual attractions or compulsions. The person sat upon may 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.

Facesitting is prevalent in mixed wrestling contests, generally with the female sitting on her male opponent's face. It is used to express dominance over a defeated opponent and to humiliate him or her for sexual gratification.

Facesitting has been performed in wrestling events in high-profile promotions, mainly the WWE, but only by means of entertainment for the crowd. Notably, one of its divas and wrestler Torrie Wilson uses a similar move called the Facial (stinkface); currently, she is the fifth WWE wrestler who uses the move. Other past WWE/F wrestlers who've used it include Terri Runnels, Solofa Fatu (Rikishi), The Kat, and André the Giant who is believed to be the first to have innovated the move into wrestling.