Danica Davidson
September 23, 2022 
Things that fall into the realm of otaku interests usually don’t show up on Fox News, but recently right-wing host Tucker Carlson took issue with a large-breasted individual he says is a teacher in Canada. Carlson said:
“That teacher has recently started wearing enormous prosthetic breasts in the classroom in front of children as part of a sexual fetish. In case you doubt that it is, the costume is intended to emulate a genre of Japanese pornography that translates roughly as ‘exploding milk porn.’”
This comment has more than one otaku news outlet scratching its head, because there is no genre of Japanese pornography known as “exploding milk porn.”
Both Anime News Network and SoraNews24 put forward the guess that this may have come from a poor translation of the Japanese word “bakunyuu” and Fox not fact-checking. There are two kanji in the Japanese writing of bakunyuu. The first kanji can be translated as “to explode.” The second kanji in it can be translated as either “milk” or “breasts,” depending on how it’s used. But used here, this word is a colorful way of saying “exploding breasts,” which would more accurately just be translated as “large breasts.”
As SoraNews24 points out, any language is going to have a word or term for this, because some women have large breasts. To say it’s related to milk actually exploding or that this is specifically a genre of Japanese pornography is false. Seeing that this part is inaccurate, it would be basically impossible to prove someone with prosthetics got those to copy a nonexistent Japanese genre.
It also appears that Carlson got the name of the teacher wrong as well. The school board in question put out this statement:
“Oakville Trafalgar High School has received significant attention online over the past several days. As part of this coverage, a teacher has been incorrectly identified as ‘Stephen Hanna’. While we cannot confirm the identity of the individual in the photos/videos/radio segments, we can confirm that the individual is not Stephen Hanna. Stephen Hanna is a staff member of the Halton District School Board who is an entirely separate individual and is completely unrelated to this matter.”
Source: ANN, SoraNews24
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
