Origins of Modern Sexual Terms - "Bukkake"

It is widely believed that bukkake was invented and popularized in the 1970’s by Japanese pornographers. This is false. Like most Japanese expressions of creativity such as anime or suicide, bukkake was copied from an American notion.

There was a film made at the height of the Depression by a man called Jonias Follower about a happy baker and his giddy bride. The film was titled A Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay Time. The climax of the film features the male protagonist presenting his wife with an extremely decadent cake overloaded with frosting. This type of sweet was called a bukkake or “buck cake” because it cost one dollar, an extravagance in those days. In the movie, the baker is comically clumsy and ends up smashing the dessert into his lover’s face. Laughing sheepishly, he remarks, “Golly, sweetie, it looks like me and my chums from the breadline held ya down and took turns cummin’ on your kisser!”

The film was, of course, suppressed until it resurfaced in Japan decades later.

(Censored still image from Bukkake Lady Springblossom Lady, one of the early remakes of the film, courtesy of the Library of Congress)