By Finley Baker
Last Updated March 24, 2025
Image Description [Vignette style illustration with a light green, purple, and orange color palette. The purple frame of the vignette features a thigh harness diagram and little orange thighs, with the text "Finley Baker 2025" at the bottom. Within the vignette, two nude figures are sitting in a purple wood chair. A fat, Asian trans woman is sitting on the seat of the chair. She has colorful makeup, earrings, and long black hair. She has gauze netting on her upper arm covering a permanent infusion port. She is wearing an orange underwire bra. A light purple thigh harness with a green dildo is strapped to her right thigh, and her hands are on her partner's shoulder and thigh. Her partner is a thin, short Black trans woman sitting on her partner's knees. Her hair is up in a pineapple bun with an orange silk scrunchy with some fly-aways. She is also wearing colorful makeup and earrings. She has visible hair on her chin, shoulders, arms, butt, and legs. Red plaques from plaque psoriasis are visible on her torso and around her joints. Her hands are resting on her partner's shoulder and waist. Her feet are propped up on upturned orange sturdy baskets.]
Image Description [Infographic with several illustrations and images with a light green background. The heading reads "Thigh Harnesses" with the caption "Soft strap to attach a toy to your thigh (or elsewhere)." There is a QR code with a link to this webpage and the caption "Scan for more." The first image is a thigh harness with a blue dildo attached to a rolled up throw pillow with the caption "Can be attached to a rolled up pillow, yoga mat, foam roller, or anything cylindrical. Cheaper option than foam sex bolsters for toys." There are three illustrations of two person partners using thigh harnesses, with the partner wearing the harness in green and the receptive partner in purple. The first illustration is of two people spooning with the harness attached to the big spoon's knee, with a pillow under the knee. The caption reads "Attach to knee & spoon, only need mobility in one leg." The second illustration is of someone side-lying with the thigh harness dildo pointed upwards, and their partner is kneeing over them. The caption reads "Attach to thigh and have a partner straddle, receptive partner can touch the genitals of the partner wearing the harness. The third illustration is of a person wearing a thigh harness and leaning back while their partner straddles their leg. Two images of thigh harnesses unfurled with the labels "Up to 22" thigh" and "Up to 32" thigh"under the heading "sizes." The last section is titled "Other Options" with images of hand, face, and foot harnesses. A purple cloud has the text "Need more help figuring out sex positions that will work for your body with a disability? Ask an occupational therapist!"]
Thigh harnesses are an excellent option for many people, and often allow for the touching of the wearer's genitals in a way that hip harnesses may restrict.
Who may benefit from a thigh harness?
People with limited ability to put weight on their hands or arms, because you can still generate motion with a hip or knee
People with bigger bodies where it is difficult to reach the groin area. This could mean people who want to penetrate their partner, but their penis is too short for that action.
Those with erectile dysfunction who want to penetrate a partner, but cannot use a hip harness.
People with tender hips or sensory issues that prevent them from wearing a hip harness.
People who want to participate in penetrating their partner, but do not have a penis.
People who want someone to ride them and use them for pleasure, but do not have the physical ability to move their hips towards their partner.
Those who may have difficulty figuring out complicated strappy hip harnesses (cognitively or because the small pieces are hard to manipulate)
If you want to penetrate multiple holes or multiple people
Those who want to penetrate themselves, but don't have a good sturdy place to put their dildo (or cannot lower themselves all the way down to their heels due to lack of hip mobility or knee pain)
Why I Prefer Thigh Dildo Strap-On Harnesses for Pegging - Kinky World, Mistress Kay (2023)
Unlocking Pleasure: Exploring Accessible and Inclusive Sexual Devices for All | Access Tech Live - YouTube (17:44, 2024)
Sportsheets Thigh Strap On - comes in two sizes (thighs up to 22" and thighs up to 32")
Sportsheets Pivot™ 2 in 1 Forced-O Strap - thigh harness with an extra strap to hold a wand-style vibrator
Mesmerthighs Sex Position - Kinkly (diagram, not real bodies)
Sex Positions After Joint Replacement - St. Luke's, position in illustration inspired by this resource
Baker, F. (2025, March 24). Thigh harnesses. Disabled & trans sexual health. https://sites.google.com/view/disabled-trans-sexual-health/sex-ed-postcards/thigh-harnesses