beast with two backs

Definition

beast with two backs rate

(Adult / Slang)

2. Sexual intercourse face to face. To make / do the beast with two backs , is an old literary phrase for copulation face to face in the missionary position, based on the figurative appearance assumed by a couple locked in such as embrace. See copulation for synonyms.

Quotes:

(1) William Shakespeare. Othello (1605): Iago: ' I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.'

(2) French author François Rabelais (1494-1553) (Translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart, 1653): ' These two did often do the two-backed beast together in so far that at last she became great with child.'