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{{nihongo|'''''Bukkake'''''|ぶっかけ|extra={{IPAc-ja|AUD|Ja-Bukkake.oga|bu|k|ka|ke}}; {{IPAc-en|lang|b|ʊ|ˈ|k|ɑː|k|eɪ|,_|b|ʊ|ˈ|k|ɑː|k|i}} {{respell|buu|KAH|kay|,_|buu|KAH|key}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=bukkake |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionaries |url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bukkake |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107195559/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bukkake |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 January 2015 |access-date=7 September 2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> or {{IPAc-en|lang|b|ʊ|ˈ|k|æ|k|eɪ}} {{respell|buu|KAK|ay}}|lead=yes}} is a [[human sexual activity|sex act]] in which one person is [[ejaculate]]d on by multiple males. It is often portrayed in [[pornographic film]]s.{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Attributed to multiple sources: <ref>{{cite book |last=Paul |first=Pamela |title=[[Pornified]]: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families |publisher=Owl Books |date=8 August 2006 |page=61 |isbn=978-0-8050-8132-9}}</ref><ref name=partridge>{{cite book |title=The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |author1=Eric Partridge |author2=Tom Dalzell |author3=Terry Victor |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YfsEgHLjboC |isbn=0-415-25937-1 |page=288}}</ref><ref name=Routledge>{{cite book |title=The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |author=Tom Dalzell |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5F-YNZRv-VMC |isbn=978-0-415-37182-7 |page=138}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Alba H. Gonzalez Reyes |date=January–March 2003 |title=La pornografia: ficcion y violencia sim sobre los cuerpos |trans-title=Pornography: Fiction and Symbolic Violence Against the Female Body |journal=La Palabra y el Hombre (The Word and the Man) |issue=125 |page=81 |publisher=University of Veracruz |location=Veracruz |issn=0185-5727 |url=http://www.uv.mx/dgbuv/pdfpalhom/enemar2003.pdf#page=67 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722230517/http://www.uv.mx/dgbuv/pdfpalhom/enemar2003.pdf#page%3D67 |archive-date=22 July 2011 |access-date=13 October 2010 |quote=La internet ofrece acceso gratuito a galerías de pornografía digital&nbsp;... Voyeuristas que buscan desde las perversiones tradicionales&nbsp;... hasta la existencia de prácticas y formas grotescas de escenificación sexual:&nbsp;...''bukkake'', una práctica que consiste en que una mujer recibe en el rostro chorros de semen de decenas de hombres. |ref=Gonzalez |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Baker2004">{{cite book |author=Paul Baker |title=Fantabulosa: The Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T72TJfZoywAC |year=2004 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |page=90 |quote=While the original bukkake films featured Japanese women, the term has crossed over into gay pornography. |isbn=978-0-8264-7343-1}}</ref><ref name="Kick2005">{{cite book |author=Russ Kick |title=Everything you know about sex is wrong: the Disinformation guide to the extremes of human sexuality (and everything in between) / edited by Russ Kick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ykub_n3euTsC&pg=PA98 |year=2005 |publisher=The Disinformation Company |isbn=978-1-932857-17-7 |quote=...&nbsp;bukkake porn, in which many men come on camera, masturbating onto the face or body of a woman or another man. |page=98}}</ref>}} 

Originating in Japan in the 1980s, the genre subsequently spread to North America and Europe, and crossed over into [[gay pornography]].

==Etymology==
Bukkake is the noun form of the Japanese verb ''bukkakeru'' (ぶっ掛ける, to dash or sprinkle water),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seekjapan.jp/article-1/744/The%20(Almost)%20Complete%20Japanzine%20Dictionary%20of%20Japan%20Sex |title=The (Almost) Complete Japanzine Dictionary of Japan Sex |work=seekjapan.jp |access-date=3 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202033818/http://www.seekjapan.jp/article-1/744/The%2B%28Almost%29%2BComplete%2BJapanzine%2BDictionary%2Bof%2BJapan%2BSex |archive-date=2 February 2010}}</ref> and means "to dash", "splash", or "heavy splash".<ref name=Routledge /><ref name="Baker2004" /><ref name="Boyle201077">{{Citation |last1=Moore |first1=Lisa Jean |last2=Weissbein |first2=Julianna |author-link1=Lisa Jean Moore |contribution=Cocktail parties: fetishizing semen in pornography beyond bukkake |editor-last=Boyle |editor-first=Karen |editor-link=Karen Boyle |title=Everyday pornography |page=77 |publisher=Routledge |location=London New York |year=2010 |isbn=9780415543781 |postscript=.}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=8yznvRX-hfAC&pg=PA77 Preview.]</ref> The compound verb can be decomposed into a prefix and a verb: ''butsu'' (ぶつ) and ''kakeru'' (掛ける). ''Butsu'' is a prefix derived from the verb "buchi", which literally means "to hit", but the usage of the prefix is a verb-intensifier.<ref>{{cite web |title=ぶち【打ち】 |url=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 |publisher=Shogakukan |access-date=15 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804061906/http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8 |archive-date=4 August 2009}}</ref>

''Kakeru'' in this context means to shower or pour. The word ''bukkake'' is often used in Japanese to describe pouring out a liquid with sufficient momentum to cause splashing or spilling. Indeed, bukkake is used in Japan to describe a type of dish where hot broth is poured over noodles, as in bukkake [[udon]] and bukkake [[soba]].{{cn|date=September 2025}}

==History==
Bukkake was first represented in [[pornographic films]] in the mid-to-late 1980s in Japan.<ref name="Baker2004" /> One source named ''Jesus Clits Superstar part 1'' released in 1987 and directed by Saki Goto as the first Japanese pornographic movie with 10 [[Facial (sexual act)|facials]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shiruou |title=milkycat and J-bukkake history for foreign fans. |url=https://shiruou.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2012/01/milkycat-and-j.html |access-date=7 June 2023}}</ref>{{unreliable source|date=February 2023}} According to one commentator, a significant factor in the development of bukkake as a pornographic form was the [[Censorship in Japan#Pornographic censorship|mandatory censorship in Japan]] where genitals must be [[Pixelization|pixelated]] by a "mosaic". One consequence of this is that Japanese pornography tends to focus more on the face and body of actresses rather than on their genitals. 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.<ref name="wired">{{cite magazine |author=Xeni Jardin |date=4 December 2004 |title=Fix for Japan Pop-Culture Addicts |url=https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/04/63009?currentPage=2 |access-date=1 July 2009 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |archive-date=10 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110093300/https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/04/63009?currentPage=2 |url-status=deviated }}</ref>

The first usage of the word bukkake in a pornographic film title was ''Bukkake Milky Showers 01'' by Shuttle Japan, released in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |title=FS Series Concept Product Page |url=http://www.shuttle-japan.com/FS/FS-00e.html |website=Shuttle Japan Co LTD |access-date=14 Oct 2004 |archive-date=14 October 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041014202434/http://www.shuttle-japan.com/FS/FS-00e.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to Shiruou, an early Shuttle Japan employee, actor, and owner of the bukkake label Milky Cat, the term crossed over into Western usage when the English language site 
bukkakebath.com appeared in 1998 using stolen content from Shuttle Japan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shiruou |title=milkycat and J-bukkake history for foreign fans. |url=https://shiruou.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2012/01/milkycat-and-j.html |access-date=7 June 2023}}</ref> However, the popularization of the act and the term for it have been credited to the director [[Kazuhiko Matsumoto]] in 1998.<ref name=wired /> The Japanese adult video studio [[Shuttle Japan]] registered the term "ぶっかけ/BUKKAKE" as a trademark (No. 4545137) in January 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shuttle-japan.com/regi.html |title=Registered Trademark |publisher=shuttle-japan.com |access-date=9 July 2010 |language=ja |archive-date=21 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221093229/http://www.shuttle-japan.com/regi.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The practice spread from Japan to the United States and Europe in the late 1990s.<ref name=americanbukkake>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|0-86719-686-6}}.</ref><ref name=Sigel>{{cite book |title=International exposure: perspectives on modern European pornography, 1800–2000 |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |author=Lisa Z. Sigel |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiyY_nlqaQEC |isbn=0-8135-3519-0 |page=189}}</ref> The first US bukkake-themed film was ''American Bukkake 1'', by [[JM Productions]] released in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=american+bukkake+1/year=1999/american-bukkake-1.htm|title=American Bukkake 1 (1999) |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref> The appearance of bukkake videos was part of a trend towards "harder" pornography in the 1990s, preceded by a fashion for [[double penetration]] videos in the mid-1990s and occurring in parallel to the appearance of [[gang bang]] videos towards the end of that decade.<ref name="Boyle201056">{{Citation |last=Tyler |first=Megan |contribution="Now, that's pornography!": violence and domination in ''Adult Video News'' |editor-last=Boyle |editor-first=Karen |editor-link=Karen Boyle |title=Everyday pornography |page=56 |publisher=Routledge |location=London New York |year=2010 |isbn=9780415543781 |postscript=.}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=8yznvRX-hfAC&pg=PA56 Preview.]</ref> 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.<ref name=Sigel/> However, Western-style bukkake videos differ in some aspects from those in Japan; in Japanese bukkake videos, female performers are frequently dressed as [[office lady|office ladies]] or in [[school uniform]]s. They are being humiliated, whereas women in Western-style bukkake videos are portrayed as enjoying the scene.<ref name="Hopkins2006">{{cite book |author=Jerry Hopkins |title=Asian Aphrodisiacs: From Bangkok to Beijing--the Search for the Ultimate Turn-on |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1VCzkpqpx0C&pg=PA229 |year=2006 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-0-7946-0396-0 |page=229}}</ref><ref name="Waskul2004">{{cite book |author=Phillip Vannini |editor=Dennis D. Waskul |title=Net.seXXX: Readings on Sex, Pornography, and the Internet |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e2HzFKHXxEkC&pg=PA79 |year=2004 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-0-8204-7072-6 |page=79 |chapter=Così Fan Tutti: Foucault, Goffman, and the Pornographic Synopticon}}</ref> Another Japanese variant of bukkake is [[gokkun]], in which several men ejaculate into a container for the receiver to drink.<ref name=Routledge/><ref name="Dines2010">{{cite book |author=Gail Dines |title=Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZOjb8Sk1bUC&pg=PR19 |year=2010 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=978-0-8070-4452-0 |page=xix }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Bukkake is less popular than some other porn niches in the West, possibly because the implicit subordination of the woman does not appeal to many consumers, and because [[cum shot]]s are normally the climax of a scene, rather than the main events.<ref name=Sigel/>

The genre has also spread to [[gay pornography]], featuring scenes in which several men ejaculate on another man.<ref name="Baker2004" /><ref name="Kick2005" /> "Lesbian bukkake" videos are also produced.<ref>{{cite video |people=[[Ashley Blue]] (Director) |title=Lesbian Bukkake |medium=[[VHS]] and [[DVD]] |publisher=JM Productions |access-date=20 April 2007 |date=2004 |url=http://www.iafd.com/title.asp?title=Lesbian+Bukkake+1&year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Sargeant |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Sargeant (writer) |date=November 2006 |volume=9 |issue=5 |title=Filth and Sexual Excess: Some Brief Reflections on Popular Scatology |journal=Media and Culture Journal |url=http://www.journal.media-culture.org.au/0610/03-sargeant.php |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215120825/http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0610/03-sargeant.php |archive-date=15 December 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The 17th [[World Association for Sexual Health|World Congress of Sexology]] in [[Montreal]] in July 2005 included a presentation on bukkake.<ref>''[http://abstracts.co.allenpress.com/pweb/sexo2005/document/50214 Bake a Cake? Exposing the Sexual Practice of Bukkake] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126232807/http://abstracts.co.allenpress.com/pweb/sexo2005/document/50214 |date=26 January 2010 }}''. Hudson, Jeff; Doong, Nicholas. XVII World Congress of Sexology, Montreal, Canada.</ref>

More recently, [[cum tributes]] have been compared to bukkake since both involve multiple men ejaculating towards a single woman.<ref name=TRIBUTE>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/cum-tributes-gross-new-way-women-are-being-harassed-online/ |title=Cum Tributes: Women Are Getting Harassed Online in a Gross New Way |last=Defer |first=Aurelien |date=October 19, 2022 |website=Vice Magazine}}</ref>

==Dangers==
Getting semen in the [[human eye|eyes]] can cause sting, burn and intense pain, because the semen contains components which irritate the ocular tissue. The reaction can be tearing, sensitivity to light, redness and blurry vision. The eye can be rinsed with clean water, the tears also help to flush out the semen, after which the discomfort will subside.<ref>Kasandra Brabaw: ''[https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/got-semen-eye-heres-193418866.html?guccounter=1 So, You Got Semen in Your Eye. Here's What to Do]''. March 1st, 2019.</ref>

[[File:Chlamydial-conjunctivitis.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Eye infected with chlamydial conjunctivitis.]]
Bukkake is one of the sexual practices with the highest risk of infection with [[sexually transmitted disease]]es (STDs), as spraying the receiving partner with semen is only possible without a condom, whereby the pathogens enter the body via the [[mucous membrane]]s of the mouth and eyes,<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=da Rocha Cantante |first=Luís Alexandre |title=Risk of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections in Sexual Practices Other than Vaginal Sex |date=2023 |publisher=<!-- unclear--> [[Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar]], [[Universidade do Porto]] & Centro  Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2925087637 |url-access=subscription |place= |isbn=9798381542363 |id={{ProQuest|2925087637}} }}</ref> and that of many of the people ejaculating during the same event.<ref>Hugh Klein: ''[https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/5/1620 Sexual Orientation, Drug Use Preference during Sex, and HIV Risk Practices and Preferences among Men Who Specifically Seek Unprotected Sex Partners via the Internet]''. In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2009, Vol. 6, Issue 5, pages 1620-1632</ref>

If the person ejaculating has [[Chlamydia trachomatis|chlamydia]] in their semen, the receiving partner may contract chlamydial [[conjunctivitis]].<ref>Rackstraw, S.; Viswalingam N. D.; Goh, B. T.:  ''[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16942659/]''. In: International Journal of STD AIDS. September 17, 2006, page 639-641.</ref> 

==Reception==
American editor and publisher [[Russ Kick]], quoting a [[sexologist]], states that men enjoy a "sense of closure and finality about sex", something that watching other men ejaculate provides.<ref name="Kick2005" /> The viewer identifies with the ejaculating men, experiencing a sense of vicarious pleasure.<ref name="Kick2005" />

A number of authors have described bukkake as premised on humiliation. [[Forensic psychologist]] [[Karen Franklin]] has described bukkake as symbolic [[group rape]], characterising its primary purpose as the [[Sexual abuse|humiliation]], [[Humiliation|degradation]] and [[Sexual objectification|objectification of women]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Franklin |first=Karen |title=Enacting Masculinity: Antigay Violence and Group Rape as Participatory Theater |journal=[[Sexuality Research and Social Policy]] |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=25–40 |publisher=California State Press |date=April 2004 |doi=10.1525/srsp.2004.1.2.25 |s2cid=143439942}}</ref> [[Lisa Jean Moore]] and Juliana Weissbein view the use of ejaculation in bukkake as part of a humiliation ritual, noting that it generally does not involve any of the female participants experiencing orgasm.<ref name=moore>{{cite book |last=Moore |first=Lisa |title=Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid |publisher=NYU Press |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780814757185 |url-access=registration |quote=Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid. |date=1 July 2007 |location=NY |page=256 |isbn=978-0-8147-5718-5}}</ref>
[[Gail Dines]] describes the [[money shot]] of a man ejaculating on the face or body of a woman, taken to a new extreme in bukkake through the involvement of multiple men, as "one of the most degrading acts in porn".<ref name="Dines2010xxiv">{{cite book |author=Gail Dines |title=Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x9CMJ_zY4WUC&pg=PT12 |year=2010 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=978-0-8070-4452-0 |page=xxiv }}</ref>

[[Tristan Taormino]], feminist author and sex educator, has likened bukkake to a "gay [[Circle jerk (sexual practice)|circle jerk]]", noting the inconsistency between its billing as a heterosexual practice and the fact that it features a group of naked men standing in close proximity to each other, [[masturbating]] together.<ref>{{cite news |last=Taormino |first=Tristan |author-link=Tristan Taormino |title=Eminem Is My Bitch |date=13 March 2001 |work=[[The Village Voice]]}}</ref>

[[Phillip Vannini]], [[associate professor]] in the School of Communication and Culture at [[Royal Roads University]], quotes "self-proclaimed net sex commentator" George Kranz, who views recent American interpretations of bukkake as a "significant advance in human behaviour", emphasising the lively, almost party-like atmosphere of American bukkake videos compared to the more subdued Japanese style.<ref name="Waskul2004" />

==See also==

* [[Cum shot]]
* [[Facial (sex act)|Facial]]
* [[Mating press]]
* [[Pornography in Japan]]

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==References==
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==External links==
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