Bukkake

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Illustration depicting the act of bukkake.

Bukkake (ぶっかけ?, pronunciation 1: IPA: /buˈka:ke̞/ 2: IPA: /bʊˈkækei/) is a sexual practice that features a person being ejaculated on by several men.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Bukkake is similar to the related practice of gokkun, in which several men ejaculate into a container for the receiver to drink.[4][7] The practice is a relatively prevalent niche in contemporary pornographic films. Some authors have argued that bukkake involves the implied or overt humiliation of the woman involved.[8] There is debate on whether to class bukkake as a paraphilia such as hygrophilia, sexual arousal from contact with bodily secretions.[7]

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Etymology

In Japanese, the word bukkake has extensive non-sexual use, such as this food tent advertising bukkake udon noodles.

Bukkake is the noun form of the Japanese verb bukkakeru (ぶっ掛ける, to dash or splash water),[9] and means "to dash", "splash" or "heavy splash".[4][5] The compound verb can be decomposed into a prefix and a verb: buttsu (ぶっ) and kakeru (掛ける). Buttsu is a prefix derived from the verb "buchi" which literally means to hit but the usage of the prefix is a verb-intensifier.[10]

Kakeru in this context means to shower or pour. The word bukkake is often used in Japanese to describe pouring out water with sufficient momentum to cause splashing or spilling. Indeed, bukkake is used in Japan to describe a type of dish where the broth is poured on top of noodles, as in bukkake-udon and bukkake-soba.

History

A bukkake session in progress

Bukkake was first represented in pornographic films in the mid to late 1980s in Japan.[5][7] According to one commentator, a significant factor in the development of bukkake as a pornographic form was the mandatory censorship in Japan where genitals must be pixelated by a "mosaic".[11] One consequence of this is that Japanese pornography tends to focus more on the face and body of actresses rather than on their genitals.[11] Since film producers could not show penetration, they sought other ways to depict sex acts without violating Japanese law and since semen did not need to be censored, a loophole existed for harder sex scenes.[11] The first known recorded and publicly released act of bukkake in Japanese pornography was in the December 1986 issue of the color photobook Mascot Note (マスカットノート?) with Matsuoka Aiko, the act being previously known simply as gansha (顔射 "facial ejaculation"?), which term does not denote multiple men ejaculating on one woman's face. However, popularization of the act and the term for it has been credited to director Kazuhiko Matsumoto in 1998.[11] The Japanese adult video studio Shuttle Japan registered the term "ぶっかけ/ＢＵＫＫＡＫＥ" as a trademark (No. 4545137) in January 2001.[12]

The practice then spread from Japan to American and then European pornography after US porn producers discovered Japanese bukkake videos in the late 1990s.[7][13][14] There was an economic advantage for Western pornographers to produce bukkake films since they only require one actress, and often amateur male performers whose pay-rates are low.[14] However, bukkake is less popular than some other porn niches, possibly because the subordination of the woman does not appeal to many consumers, or because in pornography cum-shots are normally the climax of a scene, rather than the "main event".[14]

The practice then spread to gay pornography, in which several men ejaculate on another man.[5][7] Pornographic use of the word has been expanded by the lesbian bukkake genre in which several women ejaculate on another woman.[15] This practice in film is listed as one of the many that are an example of "contemporary hardcore pornography."[16]

The 17th World Congress of Sexology in Montreal in July 2005 included a presentation on bukkake.[7]

Criticism

Some people have described bukkake as a fetish culture "beyond sex". Others describe bukkake as symbolic group rape, with its primary purpose as the humiliation, degradation and objectification of women,[17] and that the use of ejaculation is part of a humiliation ritual and generally does not involve any of the female characters experiencing orgasm.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ Paul, Pamela (2006-08-08). Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families. Owl Books. pp. 61. ISBN 978-0-8050-8132-9 0-8050-8132-1. 
  2. ↑ Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor (2006). The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I. Taylor & Francis. pp. 288. ISBN 0415259371. http://books.google.com/?id=4YfsEgHLjboC. 
  3. ↑ The Illustrated Dictionary of Sex. Lotus Press. 2007-11-30. pp. 35. ISBN 978-8189093594 8189093592. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Tom Dalzell (2008). The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English. Taylor & Francis. p. 138. ISBN 0415371821. http://books.google.com/?id=5F-YNZRv-VMC. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Paul Baker (2004). Fantabulosa: a dictionary of Polari and gay slang. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 90. ISBN 0826473431. http://books.google.com/?id=T72TJfZoywAC. 
  6. ↑ La palabra y el hombre. Issues 125-128. Universidad Veracruzana. 2003. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Bake a Cake? Exposing the Sexual Practice of Bukkake. Hudson, Jeff; Doong, Nicholas. XVII World Congress of Sexology, Montreal, Canada.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Moore, Lisa (2007-07-01). Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid. NY: NYU Press. pp. 256. ISBN 978-0814757185. http://books.google.com/?id=tpiyGxq92RwC&dq=Sperm+Counts:+Overcome+by+Man%27s+Most+Precious+Fluid&printsec=frontcover. 
  9. ↑ Dictionary of Japan Sex
  10. ↑ "ぶち【打ち】". Shogakukan. http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E3%81%B6%E3%81%A1&dtype=0&stype=0&dname=0na&pagenum=1&index=18773916144900. Retrieved 2010-07-15. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Xeni Jardin (2004-12-04). "Fix for Japan Pop-Culture Addicts". wired.com. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/04/63009?currentPage=2. Retrieved 2009-07-01. 
  12. ↑ "Registered Trademark" (in Japanese). www.shuttle-japan.com. http://www.shuttle-japan.com/regi.html. Retrieved 2010-07-09. 
  13. ↑ pp.31-37 My, My American Bukkake by Susannah Breslin in Greta Christina, Daniel Clowes, Best Erotic Comics 2008, illustrated edition, Last Gasp, 2007. ISBN 0867196866
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Lisa Z. Sigel (2005). International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800-2000. Rutgers University Press. p. 189. ISBN 0813535190. http://books.google.com/?id=KiyY_nlqaQEC. 
  15. ↑ Ashley Blue (Director). (2004). Lesbian Bukkake. [VHS and DVD]. JM Productions. http://www.iafd.com/title.asp?title=Lesbian+Bukkake+1&year=2004. Retrieved 2007-04-20. 
  16. ↑ Sargeant, Jack (November 2006). "Filth and Sexual Excess: Some Brief Reflections on Popular Scatology". Media and Culture Journal 9 (5). http://www.journal.media-culture.org.au/0610/03-sargeant.php. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
  17. ↑ Franklin, Karen (April 2004). "Enacting Masculinity: Antigay Violence and Group Rape as Participatory Theater". Sexuality Research and Social Policy (California State Press) 1 (2): 25–40. doi:10.1525/srsp.2004.1.2.25. http://www.springerlink.com/content/xpgq7806w474n378/. Retrieved 2010-09-01.