# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/21 "2003-06-17T06:38:47Z")
Does this novel have a title? ---
**Author:** ![foostav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@foostav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foostav)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/22 "2003-06-17T07:12:15Z")
For the question about bukkake, I had heard that as a “funny little fact” that you sometimes hear. The point of it was something like that the woman who was the reciever was so ashamed that she commited suicide. And no, it doesnt have a title yet. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/23 "2003-06-17T08:00:31Z")
[From the Fact-O-Tron](http://www.fatsquirrel.org/fact-o-tron/index.php?vm=55) > [@](#): > > The average blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates I’d say that’s enough to, at the very least, fill a classic Beetle at least up to the windows. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/24 "2003-06-17T08:02:31Z")
Was anyone else expecting this question to be about the Navy? ---
**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, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/25 "2003-06-17T10:18:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*Was anyone else expecting this question to be about the Navy? \*\* No. ---
**Author:** ![Tradnor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@Tradnor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tradnor)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/26 "2003-06-17T10:59:41Z")
I can’t post a direct link, of course, but search Google for “American Bukkake: Controversy, Curiosity” and the first result is a good article about the filming of a video in this genre. The relevant portion: > [@](#): > > “Unlike America, in Japan it’s more of a humiliation thing,” the 38-year-old director/videographer stated, just before single-handedly filming AB13. “In the old days when they’d bukkake a woman for cheating on her husband, she’d usually commit hari kari afterwards.” > > Hmmm… Powers’ statement sounded just too lovably far-out. So, on my return home from L.A., I went to the neighborhood library and buried myself in books concerning Japanese history. Twenty books altogether. Sorry, Jim, but not one mentioned anything even remotely about bukkakes. > > Then I went on line, doing a search on “bukkake.” Not only did I come across an army of Web sites on the subject, but one in particular, \, was exceptionally enlightening. The site’s creator was in total agreement with yours truly. “I have not discovered,” he writes, “any documents or books on this and Japanese culture which can prove (bukkakes) exist.” He did state that the term translates as “splash” or “heavy squirt” (makes sense) and that the fetish began in Japan during the early '90s. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/27 "2003-06-17T12:17:50Z")
_The Animal Planet announcer goes on,_ “The divers watch as a pod of adolescent male whales circle around a sunken Volkswagen. Suddenly, one swoops in and…Holy Gazoot, would you look at that!”:eek: ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/28 "2003-06-17T12:49:07Z")
**footsav** , **Tradnor** ’s reference has a ring of credibility – though being a sample of one, it’s not really conclusive. We may also be dealing with the Japanese equivalent of an UL, that _they_ may themselves believe without it being true; but the story is “too good”, and probably reinforced by analogy with how Western S/M fetishes simulate old-time torture dungeons. OTOH old-time Japanese erotica seems to have already tended to depictions of amazing feats of sexual prowess – involving size, hardness, um… “positional flexibility”, fertility – so it is not really that much of a reach to porn that is heavy on the body fluids. ---
**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, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/29 "2003-06-17T14:10:33Z")
Apropos of nothing, why do they call the camel “the ship of the desert”? Because it’s full of Arab semen! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327/30 "2003-06-17T14:24:11Z")
I work for a famous aquarium & we estimate things based on body size & a percentage. For example, poop, it’s liquid in whales so you can’t just catch it & weigh it, so we would use 2% of the body weight. So a blue whale poops about 3 tons per day. I would probably use some math like that to figure out the sperm weight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-loads-of-semen/182327.md?page=1)