Lessons From the Masters: Shooting Bukkake With Joe Gage

The shoot’s going to go down like clockwork, I’m told. In and out. A world-class bukkake scene in less than three hours. Joe Gage does not fuck around. He knows what he wants, and once you’re on set, you’re paired up, do your thing, and you’re out the door, his actors tell me.

I’m skeptical, of course. Being a filmmaker myself, I know any group scene, porn or not, requires a lot of coordination. There must be makeup artists who’ll have to oil the guys down and spray them with mist, I imagine. Wardrobe will have to figure out the looks, put the guys in costumes, and okay it all with the director. I’ve brought along some Ambien, in case the shoot runs so late I can’t get a train back to the city and have to stay over.

Once I get to the shooting location, however, it becomes clear that my fantasy of being stuck in a small town with a bunch of porn stars will not be happening today. The set is lit; a group of eight chairs in a semi-circle facing a black-leather divan. A blue ladder stands in center in front of a bare grey wall. It looks exactly like one of the dingy backrooms in many of Joe’s films — the sex arcade where father and son engage a group of horny patrons in an incomparable orgy in Arcade on Route 9, the truck-stop toilet where a horny policeman punishes the cruising men by forcing them to fuck and suck each other in Men’s Room: Bakersfield Station, and the expansive, raw studio where Joe’s 1980 all-sex masterpiece, Closed Set, takes place.

Joe’s made several all-sex films of late, as part of his Sex Files series, begun in 2003 in collaboration with his friend and former porn star Ray Dragon. But most of these films have a theme or suggested narrative. The Night Before the Wedding imagines a group of groomsmen who improvise when the female strippers don’t arrive, while the plots of Lunchtime Milking Club, Divorced Men’s Support Group, and Jack-Off Party at Billy Bob’s should all be self-explanatory. Today’s shoot, though, is a mystery to most of the guys. Whatever theme may later be invoked in the title, for now all anyone knows is that “it’s just going to be jerking off and sucking cock,” according to Joe.

bukkake-shoot-2The origins of this bare-bones setup lie in Cam Kurtz, the soft-spoken, hard-dicked star who’s the primary receptacle for the 13 other men’s jizz. “Bukakke’s a fantasy that I had for a long time, and I’ve never done it before,” explains Cam, as we sit in the holding area with the cast. “I gave Joe the idea about nine months ago, and he said ‘Maybe.’ Then I got an email saying ‘Hey we’re going to do that film you talked about, and you’re going to be in the middle.’”

It’s all very improvised, according to Joe. “Ray said ‘Let’s just knock one off.’ So he checked around to see if he could gather the right kind of people. And here we are.”

As he finishes his thought, Joe turns and immediately goes into work mode, looking at what each guy is wearing and making adjustments to fit his vision of the scene. “Blue t-shirt. No Underwear,” he tells one, “and show me the baggier jeans. Yes. Those are better. These look too nice.” Joe addresses another, “We’ll put you in some kind of overshirt, and these,” he says, pointing to three fashionably draped necklaces, “have to go. No jewelry everybody, watches, earrings, necklaces, rings. It’s totally distracting and against my aesthetic.”

After finishing the wardrobe work in less than 15 minutes, Joe introduces me to Spike, a famous industry veteran who’s worked a lot for ChiChi LaRue. “He has a gigantic dick and he’s famous for shooting from here to that doorway,” Joe says. “Well, she’s older now,” quips Spike. Another older, big-dicked star is nearby: Allen Silver, famed for his role as “Dad” in Joe’s incest-themed series (Dad Takes A Fishing Trip, Dad Goes To College, Dad Gets Into Trouble). Heading into another room, I meet Xander Drum and Ginger Jack, two porn stars you won’t recognize in any of Joe’s films. They always appear anonymously, because their high-profile jobs would be in jeopardy. Joe’s especially disappointed about Ginger not wanting to show his gorgeous bearded face. “Oh I so wanted to do something special with your beard because of the popularity of a certain show,” he says, referring to a famous series about a homophobic family who run a fowl shooting empire. “But alright, your faces will not appear in this movie.” As long as the dick is there and the cumshot happens, it’ll be fine with him.

bukkake-shoot-1Joe walks to the center of the room and addresses the group. “Listen guys, no kissing alright? Nobody kisses anybody. A lot of these bukakke scenes don’t work because they’re all frivolous and gay party and blah blah blah blah blah. They’re horrible. This is just gonna be seriously about jacking off, sucking dick, and dick. That’s it. So we don’t have to be serial killer serious, but it’s a serious kind of thing. That’s basically all. What we’re going to do is start small and build up. Cam is going to be sitting out on a thing, there’s a group of people sitting and watching. Someone’s going to come out and take his dick out and Cam’s going to start sucking him. And then Allen’s going to appear and take his dick out and jack off while he watches, and then come closer so Cam can work on Alan and the other guy. Then Allen’s going to get down on his knees there, and a fourth guy is going to come out of the chair and Allen’s going to start sucking them. From there on people just follow your instincts if you want to get hard and get going you can start jacking off, or jacking each other off or stand and jack off. If you really want to — not at first but maybe halfway through the shoot, you can sink down and start blowing each other, but not at first. This won’t happen until the first guys cum, and then they will fade into the background, and then other guys will come and it’s just cumshots into the mouth until we have everybody done, and then Alan and Cam will cum on each other’s dicks with everybody watching in the background and then we all go to the seashore. Okay? 15 minutes!” There’s a silence in the air as everyone takes this in. “Are we really going to go to the seashore?” someone asks.

At 2 PM, I follow the gang down to set. Each man is placed in a chair or told to stand. Xander is on the far left, so his face can be easily framed out of the action. The three cameramen, Ray, Sam, and Devin Moss (the horse dicked young porn star from Kentucky who usually works in front of the camera) take their positions facing the action. Joe, seated in the corner in front of 2 monitors, instructs everyone to take their dicks out and warm them up. Since most of the guys took Viagra before the shoot began, everyone seems to be in full working order. Joe likes what he sees and asks the camera guys to shoot close-ups, tilts, pans, and dick shots that he can use later for cutaways. Once he’s satisfied that there are no problems, everyone’s told to put their dicks away and the official shooting begins.

Spike stands and stares at Cam, giving him one of those slow-burn looks that Joe is famous for. He takes his giant dick out and approaches. Nailing this approach is crucial for Joe, so he directs the actors and the shooters very specifically. “Look at Cam while you’re doing this, Spike,” he says. “Get close ups of Spike and his dick. Over the shoulder of Cam to tie him in. Close up of Cam’s face watching in profile. Focus. Cam, cheat your face just a little bit this way. Eye contact Spike. Slowly stand in space and keep doing what you’re doing. I need a full shot of Spike. Take your hands off it Spike, show it off. Eye contact. Look up at him Cam. Tilt up to him. Look up at him and slowly slide it in your mouth. Everybody focus on the action and each other’s dicks if you want but basically you’re looking at what’s happening. You can look at each other like ‘Can you believe we’re here? Is this really happening?’”

The rest of the guys are told to take their dicks out and start jacking off, and Allen is given his cue to enter from stage right, watch the action, and then feed his cock to Cam as well. As Cam sucks them both in turn, I start to notice a faint charge in the air. It smells like sex, sweat, pheromones, and my own cock stiffens from the sidelines. The smell only grows more intense as the action continues and at 2:35, when Spike delivers his huge cumshot it becomes truly sublime. I think to myself that this smell, this amazing, unbelievable smell is the missing component to modern day porn watching, and I suddenly get sad about the rapid loss of porn theaters and sex spaces where smells like this are constant. If the industry could do scratch and sniff, or figure out a way to bottle the fragrance like poppers, they’d surely make a fortune. Unfortunately, none of the guys in the cast could smell it, they tell me later, because Viagra tends to swell up your sinuses.

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After his cum shot, Spike exits stage left, and heads upstairs. Allen is still deep throating Blue Shirt/Baggy Jeans. Xander stands next to him, jacking off. Ginger Jack is being serviced by Cam. “Now if anybody wants to stand up and step forward while you’re jacking off, it would be nice,” Joe says. Seth comes to stand behind Ginger. Allen starts gagging on BSBJ’s member. “Who’s ready to cum?” asks Joe. “I could be,” Ginger says. “Good. Get into it guys. Say ‘I’m gonna cum’ when you cum.” At 2:42 Ginger delivers the requested line as cumshot two is unloaded into Cam’s mouth.

The next few happen in rapid fire. Xander cums a minute later, at 2:43, then another at 2:47. “Eat it, Cam. Get it in your mouth, bud,” Joe gently commands. Joe keeps talking but Ray notices another guy is ready to blow and cuts him off, “Another one.” 2:48. Then Butch, “Oh yeah, fuck yeah, yeah you want that? There you go boy. Oh oh oh yeah. Jesus. There you go. Whoa.” 2:49. A few more eruptions and there are now only four guys left. It’s 2:55. “Do we want to press on or take a ten minute break?” Joe asks. “Let’s keep going,” replies one of the guys.

Seth Roberts unloads with a forceful group of long heavy breaths, then two others move forward to cum in Allen’s mouth. Allen doesn’t position himself in time for the first, but he is able to reach out his hand and catch the cum as it falls, and put it in his mouth. An improvised save. Then Allen greedily puts the cock back in his mouth to catch any residual juice. Ross Bailey, Cam’s massively hung boyfriend, shoots a 4-day load into Allen’s mouth at 2:59 PM.

bukkake-shoot-4The only people left to cum are the two bottoms. Allen cums in Cam’s mouth at 3:03, a nice big load. Success. Only one more to go. “Cam, now you’re going to stand up and cum on Allen’s face,” Joe says. The other guys suddenly materialize like the dancers on the beach at the end of Fellini’s 8 ½ , circling Cam to encourage him on. Unfortunately, all the eyes on him induce a fairly standard case of nerves. “I need a break,” Cam says. He looks at Ross, and the two of them go upstairs to work on each other.

Cam returns ready to burst, and everyone gathers as before. For a few minutes it seems like it’s all going to work out perfectly, and then a second bout of nerves strikes. “I’m sorry,” Cam says. “I need another break.” The other guys retreat to their original positions, but now they all have pensive, quiet, meditative looks, like something out of an old masters painting. “It happens nearly on every set,” Joe tells me, “They get low blood sugar, their nerves get to them, bunch of different reasons. We can get it tomorrow if need be.”

Cam is lying back on the divan, as Ross sucks his cock while quietly fingering him. This seems to do the job. Cam stands up and the guys rush to their marks, and within moments the final cumshot is recorded. It’s 3:20. “It looks so beautiful on the monitor, guys,” Joe announces, happily. “Alright guys, who’s going to the train? There’s a 3:58 train so we need to have you out of here in 15 minutes,” Ray says. No lying around, no cuddling, or ‘you did such a great job’ type of stuff. It’s like they said. Clockwork.

I speak with Cam before I go. He seems satiated, but not especially excited about the fulfillment of his fantasy. The stress of the final moment seems to be weighing on him. Still, it was a good experience, he insists. “I think it was definitely very hot and definitely lived up to my expectations. The guys are always really attractive which is a great thing.” Allen is more effusive about the experience. “I get to walk in and eat all this cum and get all these big beautiful dicks in my face,” he says. “There was a moment when we were getting ready, and I’m in the back looking around waiting for my cue, and I was like, I’m the luckiest fag in the world. It was a blast.”

Adam Baran is a filmmaker, blogger, former online editor of Butt Magazine and co-curator of Queer/Art/Film. His short film JACKPOT, about a porn-hunting gay teen, won Best Short Film at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and was recently featured on The Huffington Post, Queerty, and Towleroad, among others. He is a features programmer at Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival and NewFest in New York. In his spare time, he complains about things to his friends. “Fisting for Compliments”, his weekly musings about the intersection of sex, art, porn, and history, will appear every Monday on TheSword. You can contact him at Adam@TheSword.com and follow him on Twitter at @ABaran999.

11 thoughts on “Lessons From the Masters: Shooting Bukkake With Joe Gage”

      1. Allen is unbelievably sexy actually… His energy is magnetic. He’s not a pervert or a pedophile, he’s a porn star and energy worker with a huge following. You, Skip, are a hater who’s deluded himself to think his mean little opinion is relevant.

          1. I second Ginger Jack’s remarks. Allen is the hottest guy in the business. I’d let him do whatever he wanted to do to me. And thank him.

          2. Skip, you’re a bell end.
            Allen is the hottest guy there.
            Having also met him in person I can confirm he’s stunning and knows what he’s doing. What does that make me then?

  1. ” Xander Drum ” and ” Ginger Jack ” have high-profile jobs that would be jeopardy if they wouldn’t appear anonymously… People with no need of money do porn for the sake of fuckery. Did they answer a inner call, a vocation (LOL) ? Can prostitution* be a ” hobby ” ? (*) I suppose they were paid to do sex so ‘ sex for money means prostitution ‘.

  2. The term bukkake has been robbed and exploited by gay porn. Bukkake does not mean cumming on the chin or in the mouth. It is an ancient ritual of humiliation of cumming all over the face. So tired of these fakes

    1. Actually refers to a type of japanese cuisine – you’ll see bukkake noodles all over Japan at every restaurant. The meaning of the word is simply “wet”.

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