A japanese bride enjoing her ritual bukkake.
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Advertising with symbols of bukkake: to better fit the western
taste, sperm has been changed with cream.
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Bukkake is an ancient Japanese tradition, its true origins
are lost in the fog of history.
The first historically important documentations about this practice
are dated to the first half of the thirteenth century, but the bukkake
probably originated some centuries earlier.
According to one of the most credited theories, bukkake was an ancient
ritual of fertility taking place after a wedding, in order to
guarantee a long and prosperous descendancy to the couple.
The bride was covered of sperm by all the people invited to the wedding.
This way, they testified the bride becoming an adult woman
and no longer a child, with all the rights and the duties that came
from this changement of status.
The amount of sperm symbolizes the long and prosper descendancy
that the participants to the wedding wishes to the couple.
It's easy to notice the strict relationship between the Japanese tradition
of the bukkake and the western tradition of the throwing of rice to the spouses:
both represent an important moment of the celebration of the wedding and
have the function to wish to the bridal pair joy and prosperity.
Over the centuries, traditional customs have changed and bukkake has been
transferred from the public-social sphere to the private one, (where only
the close relatives and the most beloved friends can acceed), and has
been transformed in a ceremony of large pump and luxury, in which the
aesthetic values became utterly important.
Japanese young people dedicate to the preparation of bukkake as much
time as the choice of the wedding dresses: an insufficient bukkake would
represent an enormous shame for the family of the couple.
Bukkake therefore has continued to follow these two different traditions
that were gradually changing: on one side the "rural" bukkake,
which main point is the quantitative aspect of the emission of
sperm. On the other side the "artistical" bukkake where maximum
attention is given to the harmony of the gestures and to the music that
accompany this ritual.
As in many ancient Japanese traditions (the martial arts, for instance)
bukkake has suffered the western influence: what once was a ritual
loaded with symbolic means has now become a sport in which victory is
what really counts.
Something less "charming" but easier to understand for our modern
western sensibility.
Only some Japanese families of ancient tradition (and sometimes tied to the
imperial family) keep alive the tradition of the bukkake, but for obvious
reasons it's not possible to have some documentation of these luxurious
events celebrated in the wonderful dwellings of japanese noblemen.
There are every day less historical companies where actors in disguise
"play" a traditional-style bukkake.
These artistic manifestations, once most frequent, are now slowly disappearing
because of the lack of schools able to prepare adequately the actors for
the most difficult task of the perfect execution of the bukkake.
Because of the enormous demand for tickets and of the scarcity of available
places, it's practically impossible to assist to one of these shows.
Having a place in the front row of a bukkake theatrical show is a symbol
of enormous prestige, comparable to the western tradition of the New Year's Day Concert in Vienna.
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