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The TikTok Dry-Humping Technique That Has Everyone Taking a Knee

Sex can involve almost any body part or toy, but TikTok seems to have a particular bent toward knees, the unsung heroes of clit stimulation we’ve sorely neglected

As a culture, most of us have come to understand that “sex” can mean more than just penis-in-vagina intercourse. Instead, it can include any combination of genitals, hands, mouths and sex toys. But lately, TikTok has been making the case for including a rather surprising body part among that list: knees. 

@dontcallmeheidi

LMAO pls get on the right side of tiktok n yes ik i’m looking rough

♬ Oooo oh dats tuff – Yessir_mally
@em.whatevertherest

#stitch with @ur.whxre The Knee Trick™️ tutorial bc apparently this isn’t common knowledge

♬ original sound – Em Wilson

According to dozens of videos, the “knee trick” is a move in which a person firmly but gently grinds their knee into their partner’s vulva. The presser can be any gender, of course, but the knee trick is intended to stimulate the clitoris. Numerous related TikToks have several hundreds of thousands of views, with one knee trick video amassing just under two million. In this particular entry, @em.whatevertherest describes using one knee to hook your partner’s leg over yours so that her legs are spread. Then, they say to press the area above the knee of your other leg, rather than the actual knee itself, into your partner’s genitals and rock back and forth to stimulate her clit. 

For the most part, the knee trick seems to go over well — several of the videos on the topic are from women saying their lives would be better if men knew about the trick. Nobody has specified whether this move is enough to bring them to orgasm, but apparently, it feels good regardless. 

Since this technique can be done with or without clothes, the “knee trick” is really just a specific position of dry humping — something that’s increasingly being talked about on TikTok more broadly. On March 16th, sex-ed TikToker @normcoresoul made a video stating that the majority of women were “pillow-thumpers” growing up — i.e., that many women’s early masturbation experiences involved humping and grinding on pillows. However, porn primarily emphasizes “poking,” she says in her TikTok-safe language to describe penetration, and doesn’t demonstrate how “thumping” is often more pleasurable for women/people with vaginas because of the friction it delivers to the clit

This particular video now has 5.5 million views, and sparked a huge discussion among women in the comments. “This needs to land on straight men TikTok ASAP,” one wrote. “I grew up thinking that men didn’t even go inside, I thought they just rubbed in between,” another said. “Boy was I surprised!”

@hannakins

Im not gonna be the one to explain it but someone else pls save us cause they are bad at taking input directly

♬ btch you do it good i do it better – nia (taylor’s version)

The knee trick, then, seems essentially like a way for people to pass off a familiar, enjoyable technique of being stimulated as a new thing to try. By calling it a trick, people are branding it as some sort of sex hack — most importantly, one that straight men might want to try in hopes of impressing their partner. But really, it’s just old school dry humping repackaged, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. If naming it the knee trick helps women experience the type of pleasure they’ve been hoping for, maybe we should all consider taking a knee.