Mmm. Bukkake. Delicious. Can't get enough of it.
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I was talking about the noodles, you pervert.
You see, as well as being a strange sexual predilection, it's also a method for preparing Japanese soba or udon noodles. For some reason though, that's not the first definition that pops into most people's brain when someone says 'bukkake' to them. Can't think why. I can only assume it's because people know so little on the subject. Therefore, in honour of PornQuest 2006, everything you didn't want to know about bukkake (but I'm going to tell you anyway.) Unless you're just going to vote this sucker down without reading on of course. But then... morbid curiosity... go on, you know you want to....
First off, the noun 'bukkake' is of Japanese origin, and is usually pronounced 'bu-ka-kay'. Its etymology is from the verb 'bukkakeru', meaning 'to dash [with liquid]', and it can also be used as an adverb to describe the pouring out of liquids (let's use 'water' as the preferable example for the moment) with sufficient momentum to cause splashing.
Bukkake - The Noodles
Bukkake-udon and bukkake-soba are simply cold noodles in a bowl, with various toppings (such as bonito flakes, shrimp, ground radish, or tempura) placed on top, then a ladle of hot stock or soup... 'bukkakied'... over them immediately before serving.
I think it can be true to say that in Japan, the word 'bukkake' is mostly used in terms of noodle eating, and that to the average person who lives in Japan, that would be the first thing they thought of if you were to use the word in conversation with them.
Bukkake - The Nasty
Bukkake in pornography and sexual practice is an extreme form of facial... and yeah, that's not the sort of facial involving an aloe vera cream on the skin and slices of cucumber over the eyes. A facial, in pornographal lexica, is the act of ejaculation into a person's face. Now, I'm sure this is a practice that has been around for many, many years; if memory serves, the Marquis de Sade dedicates one of his passages to the practice in his unfinished book, 'The 120 days of Sodom'. It was one of the passages at the immediate beginning of the book, which should probably give you a clue as to just how bad it got later on.
I digress.
Now, a 'facial' would, for your standard porno film, be just the single man coming onto a woman's (or, in gay porn, man's) face. But, I hear you ask, why stop at just the one? Why not have a 'collaborative facial' involving many men? Why not indeed. Bukkake describes the act of two or more (usually more) men coming onto a woman's face or body. It can also be a man's face or body, but a google fight between {bukkake "on her face"} and {bukkake "on his face"} shows the girls have it with 94% of the hits. If you'll pardon the pun. The phenomenon of 'bukkake pornography' began back in the 1990's, but it would be foolish to say that it had never occurred to a group of human beings in the preceding 10,000yrs before then that it might be titillating for a group of men to ejaculate over a single person as a sexual act. Apart from anything, British public school boys have been playing the soggy biscuit game for decades.
It's just that it was the Japanese that came up with a specific name for it.
There's a bit of an urban legend that this act originated as a punishment for the unfaithful wives of men in feudal Japan; she would be taken outside the village, tied to a stake, and all the men from the village would take it in turns to masturbate over her; kind of a, 'well, if you're going to go with one of them, you might as well go with all of them' deal. It sounds like such a convincingly nasty and brutal practice for men to inflict upon women, back in the day, that everyone wants to believe this story. Unfortunately it was made up by an imaginative adult website designer who knew his audience well. In Japanese bukkake, the woman will usually be submissive, often sitting or lying motionless throughout the performance. There may be a punishment and S&M approach to the film, and they may be 'forced' to consume the ejaculate. Essentially, the genre as a whole represents the urban legend that was built from it.
However, the rest of the world saw what the Japanese were doing and made it their own. In American bukkake, the attractive female porn star is the ready and willing recipient of the 'attentions' of the many men (sometimes 50-100) that surround her, and revels in the attention. She shows off to the camera just how much she's enjoying being doused in come, licking it off her and generally doing whatever it is she's being paid to do. European style bukkake is where a woman is being gang banged, and each man pulls out to climax in her face. The new thing in pornography is lesbian bukkake which is... well, exactly what it says on the tin.
Of course, there are variants within each style of bukkake. For instance, it's not always on the face, sometimes the men will ejaculate only on her abdomen or her buttocks. Another variant (fast becoming its own genre called 'gokkun') is where the person on the receiving end will make the effort to consume all of the come that lands on them. Sometimes there may be two or more girls on the receiving end of all this spunk. Often, the film will be of them having lesbian sex while men masturbate over them; as each bloke comes over them, they may then play with it, rubbing it into each other's skin and snowballing. Occasionally, but not often, it will be a heterosexual couple who are being jizzed over.
To end, a highly amusing thing (well, to me, anyway) that I found out about in my researches was the non-pornographic practice of 'seagulling'. Essentially, what goes down is this: friend A naively tells friend B that him and his girlfriend are going to go have some "alone time" somewhere. Friend B is a bit of an evil sod, and gathers around friends C thru X. They all go hide themselves in the place where friend A is getting busy with his girlfriend. Just at the point where friend A and his girlfriend are about to finish, friends B thru X jump out, ejaculate over the unsuspecting couple, and then run around them flapping their arms and making a noise like a seagull.
So wonderfully immature; frat boys the world over must currently be rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of it.