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Something about CumShots!
Over the last several decades, pornography producers have tried to capture this "unrepresentable" element by making more and more "explicit" depictions that include close-ups of genitals, penetration, and ejaculation. A cum shot (sometimes called come shot, facial, pop shot or money shot) is the portion of a pornographic film depicting a man ejaculating (shooting cum) onto either his partner's or his own, body — especially the breast, vulva, stomach, crotch, face, anus, or buttocks. It usually indicates the completion of a sexual act. The term also refers to individuals masturbating solo, often attempting to show a large or far-shooting ejaculation and posting it on the internet.

Pornography film producers fetishize the "come shot", which can be seen in the existence of compilations of ejaculation scenes and in the inclusion of replays of the ejaculation sequence in some pornographic films. In order for viewers of pornography to be able to view the ejaculation, the pornographic actor must not ejaculate within the sexual partner. In the slang of the pornography subculture, an internal ejaculation is termed a creampie.

When the "cum shot" was first popularized in pornography in the 1960s, it usually involved the man ejaculating near the woman's vulva or on the small of her back depending on the sexual position. Since the 1990s, a "cum shot" is often received on the face of the recipient (sometimes referred to as a facial). However, ejaculations on or near the breasts, anus, or vulva still occur. If semen is directed at the recipient's face, the camera shot is called a facial. A film's editor may emphasize orgasm by multiple ejaculation scenes or replays of ejaculations. It is believed the cum shot adds a sense of authenticity to a staged sexual act because, unlike a facial expression or dialogue, it is difficult to fake convincingly.

The "cum shot" adds a sense of realism to pornographic films, because unlike other aspects of the pornographic depiction, such as facial expressions or dialogue, it is a physiological response and therefore it cannot be faked (at least not without resorting to prosthetics and special effects). The ejaculation scene also performs a closure role in the simple narrative form of pornography. When the cum shot is from masturbatory pornography, the semen can be directed at several places, some of which may not even be on the body. Bodily destinations can include the abdomen, the face/shoulders (should the semen shoot far enough), the legs, or even the mouth through autofellatio. Locations beyond the body are usually predetermined sets, including wall mirrors, glass tables (for the camera to shoot under) and black table cloths.

There are several variations of the cum shot, including the creampie. The "creampie", an ejaculation into the vagina, anus or mouth of the actor's partner, is called a cum shot if the camera lingers past the moment of orgasm and then records the orifice oozing or expelling semen. Objects or clothing may be targeted in ejaculation, such as stocking-clad legs or a container. The consumption of semen — sometimes advertised as "cumsumption" (a portmanteau of "cum and consumption") — is the primary feature of the Japanese gokkun genre of pornography.

 

 
 
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