Bukkake (from the Japanese ぶっかけ) is a group sex practice wherein a series of men takes turns ejaculating on a kneeling woman or man. There are strong overtones of erotic humiliation in this practice. When the term bukkake is used in Japan, it usually refers to a method of preparing noodles and not the sexual act.

The practice supposedly originated in the feudal age in Japan to punish unfaithful women—a woman who had disgraced her husband was first tied to a post in a kneeling position and then forced to endure being ejaculated on by every man in the community. However, this is most likely an urban myth as the practice appears in reality to have originated in Japanese pornographic movies. The most likely explanation is that in Japanese pornography, male and female genitalia cannot be shown and are therefore either pixellated or blurred. However, semen may be shown, thus the only practical way to make Japanese pornography more extreme and "hardcore" is to increase the amount of semen, hence the invention of bukkake-style videos.

In Japanese pornography, bukkake is usually portrayed as an act of erotic humiliation, whereas western pornography tends to portray it as an enjoyable act driven by the performer's insatiable appetite for semen. The genre of forced bukkake movies is very popular in Japan: the plot is typically that of an innocent Japanese schoolgirl in uniform or shy officelady being drenched with semen against her will.

Bukkake is the base form of a Japanese verb, but used alone it is a noun meaning to splash or dash. The verb bukkakeru (to dash [water]) can be decomposed into two verbs: butsu (ぶつ) and kakeru (掛ける). Butsu literally means to hit, but in this usage it appears to be an intensive prefix as in buttamageru (ぶったまげる) or butchigiri (ぶっちぎり). Kakeru means to shower or pour.

Indeed, bukkake is more commonly used in Japan to describe a type of dish where the toppings are poured on top of noodles, as in bukkake-udon and bukkake-soba.

A "light" version of bukkake also exists, and is known as gokkun. Gokkun is an onomatopoeia, which translates into English as "gulp," i.e., the sound one makes swallowing. People outside of Japan often mistake gokkun for bukkake.

A number of sources have stated that bukkake may have a non-obvious risk of infection by HIV and other blood-borne infections such as hepatitis through semen contacting the surface of the eye.

See also

• semen
• orgy
• facial (sexuality)
• Pornography in Japan

External links

• The X Factory: Anatomy of a Bukkake spectator.net article by Anthony Petkovich Warning: contains explicit pornographic content
• You are what you eat: The pervasive porn industry and what it says about you and your desires Clamor magazine article by Robert Jensen Warning: contains explicit pornographic content

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