# Huge loads of semen **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327 "2003-06-16T23:15:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![foostav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@foostav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foostav)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/1 "2003-06-16T23:15:32Z")
Two questions. Is it true that bukkake first evolved as a punishment in Japan, for wives that had cheated on their husband? Also, how much semen is it in the average bluewhale ejaculation, and would it fill a Volkswagen beetle (classic). I need these answers for a novel I am writing. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Lateralus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@Lateralus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lateralus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/2 "2003-06-16T23:27:11Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by foostav \* > \*\* > I need these answers for a novel I am writing._\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/3 "2003-06-16T23:45:54Z")
Trying to picture it…nah. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/4 "2003-06-16T23:50:02Z")
I honestly can’t answer either of these questions, but I had a friend that used to be a whale watching guide and he told me once that a blue whales heart is the size of a VW Bug. Ya know, in case you were wondering. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/5 "2003-06-16T23:54:47Z")
Forget picturing what he described… I’m trying to figure out what this novel’s gonna’ be like. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/6 "2003-06-17T00:02:44Z")
I don’t think anyone knows. It’s not like you can easily ‘milk’ one and collect the semen. I have one refernce here that estimates 8.5 Litres for a humpback based on an extrapolation from testicle sizes of other mammals. That’s enough to make the seat covers soggy, but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![WillGolfForFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/82dd89/32.png) [@WillGolfForFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillGolfForFood)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/7 "2003-06-17T00:05:22Z")
OK, see, Mortimer Bluewhale and his Japanese girlfriend are really starting to get it on, see, but he forgets to bring a condom with him, and things are looking really desperate until he spies this abandoned Volkswagen Beetle. Not one of the new ones, see, but one of the slightly smaller classic models… ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/8 "2003-06-17T00:07:15Z")
I can but guess it’s title… **The Geisha And The Ghia** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/9 "2003-06-17T00:07:55Z")
8.5 litres would make a _lot_ of seat covers soggy! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/10 "2003-06-17T00:15:02Z")
No it is not true. Bukake is the name for Japanese gangbang porn, and people spam message boards pretending to ask about it legitimately so that when somebody asks “what is Bukake,” they can link to their porn site. No, it wouldn’t fill a VW. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/11 "2003-06-17T00:18:40Z")
[A Review of Sexual Selection and Human Evolution: How Mate Choice shaped Human Nature](http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Human%20Nature%20S%201999/SexualSelection/sex%5B1%5D.pdf) > [@](#): > > In many species, females mate with more than one male, so sperm competition becomes important: males evolve larger testicles, larger ejaculates, faster-swimming sperm, various devices to remove previous competitors’ sperm from the female reproductive tract, and various plugs to keep future competitors’ sperm excluded entirely (Smith, 1984; G. Parker, 1984). The results can be dramatic: the male North Atlantic right whale reputedly has 2000- pound testicles to pump out gallons of semen and billions of sperm per ejaculate. How many gallons of semen? Does it really matter, we’re talking _gallons_ here. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/12 "2003-06-17T00:23:30Z")
There are a few unsubstantiated accounts on the Internet that say 400 gallons of sperm are ejaculated by the blue whale, only 40 of which (or is it 60?) make it into his partner, leaving 360 gallons left. ---
**Author:** ![DemonSpawn52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f17d59/32.png) [@DemonSpawn52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonSpawn52)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/13 "2003-06-17T00:37:15Z")
And tacked onto those unsubstantiated accounts I always hear the joke ‘no wonder the ocean is so salty’. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/14 "2003-06-17T01:23:21Z")
Well, I felt I had to tell you all this… As I was reading this thread, I pictured… Me, stuck in a classic yellow VW bug. I’m sitting there, and then, all of a sound, there it comes: all the semen a horny blue whale could muster out, in what looks like a giant plastic cup that at one time, held giant ranch dip. It comes closer, and begins pooring in the window, and I inch away from the vile stuff, crawling onto the dash. Minutes later, I’m being suffocated up against a windshield, submerged in this terrible semen! Oh god! The torture! And I give it all back to you! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/15 "2003-06-17T01:35:02Z")
I called them unsubstantiated after googling a little - but not too much - and finding the “joke” info. Usually presented as a weird fact. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/16 "2003-06-17T02:17:04Z")
Well done \*\* Sunshine and Smiles\*\*, you get a little prize. In all of my years of parents discussing medical procedures and shock media images, you have single handly managed to turn my stomach not once, but _twice_. :p, or is that :eek:? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/17 "2003-06-17T04:11:28Z")
From the OP: Is it true that bukkake first evolved as a punishment in Japan, for wives that had cheated on their husband? No one has addressed this yet. Please clarify. Are you trying to substantiate/debunk an urban legend that in Japan, at some point in its history, unfaithful wives were punished by being forced to undergo a gangbang? I’ve never heard this before. In James Clavell’s _Shogun,_ the customary penalty for female infidelity was death. Death to her paramour, too, if he could be caught. And how does whale semen figure into it? Are we talking about whale bukkake? Assuming a whale species that has sexually exclusive pairings (I don’t know whether any do), and assuming that in some cases females of that species are unfaithful to their mates . . . ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/18 "2003-06-17T04:16:59Z")
Whale bukkake…sperm whale…there’s a joke in there somewhere, but I can’t put my finger on it… ---
**Author:** ![Gopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gopher)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/19 "2003-06-17T05:09:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DemonSpawn52 \* > \*\*And tacked onto those unsubstantiated accounts I always hear the joke ‘no wonder the ocean is so salty’. \*\* :eek: Oh god. I’m not going into the ocean again. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/20 "2003-06-17T05:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gopher \* > \*\*:eek: > Oh god. I’m not going into the ocean again. \*\* Old WC Fields quote: (when asked why he never drank water) “Fish f\*ck in it.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327.md?page=2)