One consequence of this is that Japanese pornography tends to focus more on the face and body of actresses rather than on their genitals. 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'. Bukkake was first represented in pornographic films in the mid to late 1980s in Japan. In fact, that description of its origin is false, mainly because the actual punishment for cheating wives was decapitation. There is a popular belief that links the origin of the practice to a form of punishment for adultery on women in medieval Japan. 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. The word bukkake is often used in Japanese to describe pouring out a liquid with sufficient momentum to cause splashing or spilling. Kakeru in this context means to shower or pour. Butsu is a prefix derived from the verb 'buchi', which literally means 'to hit', but the usage of the prefix is a verb-intensifier. The compound verb can be decomposed into a prefix and a verb: butsu (ぶつ) and kakeru (掛ける). In Japanese, the word bukkake has extensive non-sexual use, such as this food tent advertising bukkake udon noodles.īukkake is the noun form of the Japanese verb bukkakeru (ぶっ掛ける, to dash or sprinkle water), and means 'to dash', 'splash', or 'heavy splash'.
