Sticky Faces Sprayed With Cum

Has your lady been properly ab-gespritzt lately? Ab-Gespritzt is the name of the cum-sprayed German 1980s facial cumshots fetish magazine that supplied the vintage porn photos for this post. I can’t translate that title precisely, sorry. But the root made it into English as “spritz” and it means something like “spray” or “sprinkle” or “splatter”, just as you would expect.

One thing you’ll notice immediately. The facial cumshots in these photos are hugely thick and large and brilliantly white. And the jizz is often streaked in parallel lines like war paint or powder cocaine. If all this seems impossible, implausible, or just too good to be true? That’s because it probably is.

I don’t want to be a cynic. The truth remains: semen is hard to photograph. It’s thin, it’s runny, it’s translucent. In less than perfect light, jizz can just up and disappear. The most impressive pornstar wad will vanish on a pretty cheek, unless the photographer is fucking brilliant.

Even when well-captured in a perfect porn photo, pornographers of the late 20th century had a problem. Color printing for porn magazines had technological and economic limitations. Depending on the paper and the print process and the dyes used, there could be significant loss of contrast. A streak of cum showing brilliant white on the 35mm negative would sometimes just fade away by the time the photo made it into a magazine on the news stand.

You can find a metric fuck-ton of genuine facial cumshots in porn, modern or vintage. I won’t say otherwise. I’m not going to be the cynic who destroys your enjoyment of your favorite porn photo. But I can say this: in the ’70s and ’80s, most magazine photographers were willing to cheat. Most of them had a recipe for a bright sticky white liquid they could squirt onto their models from a squirt bottle to “enhance the scene” after the male star shot his genuine wad.

I’ve scene different recipes. Powdered confectioner’s sugar, corn starch, canned condensed milk, corn syrup, egg whites — they used ’em all. Many recipes were secret. Every cum-facials photographer had his own. It was a special-effects specialty!

Eventually, as things do, it all got out of hand. Different photogs and magazines got to competing over who had the biggest and juiciest face-wads. And maybe — I cannot swear this is true — some of the people buying the porn magazines started to fetishize the unrealistic smears of white goop they were seeing. Did pornographers end up in a facial-cumshots special-effects arms race that nobody ever wanted? It sure looks that way to me.

These photos are a long way from the ridiculous extremes we saw in certain magazines in those days. The sticky faces here are “enhanced” with a squirt bottle, of that I have no doubt. But the apotheosis of the trend was much whiter and wetter than anything seen here. The Japanese, I think, took things the farthest, inventing bukkake in the process.

In recent years, the sticky squirt bottles have mostly gone. Lighting is better, cameras are better, and digital photo editing offers more control over the visual presentation of natural cum. Plus, still photos just aren’t that large a part of porn production any more; the native format is video, where the squirt bottle is harder to manage convincingly. The ab-gespritzt faces you see today are much more likely to be the real thing!