Tirad el-kebsh (the ram’s attack) is the oldest known form of rape in the Orient. The Mongols were notorious for it, and there are numerous Chinese and Rajput prints showing Moghul warriors raping women and girls in this attitude. The female is thrown on her side, the assailant lifts her upper leg and squats between her thighs. Bernhard Stern, who observed this method among the Turks and Bosnian Muslims, notes that the rapist sometimes shifts position by lifting the girl’s legs upon his shoulders like a yoke; whereupon he holds her thighs tight in his arms with all his might and, kneeling, “drives his sex organ into her, throwing himself upon her with all his weight, untroubled by her sighs and groans.”