The Latest on Female Ejaculation

Domindoll at sexbodygender had quite the rant after watching Betty and Carlin's How to Squirt video.  Betty asked me to respond with the latest on female ejaculation:

In terms of female ejaculation, the world is divided into two groups: those who do it or have seen it, and believe it, and those who don't do it or haven't seen it and remain skeptical. Betty and I have been having a collegial discussion about female ejaculation for years. I'm a believer, she's not. My book The Clitoral Truth has a chapter, "Female Ejaculation: Fact or Fantasy?" in which I cover this widely disputed phenomenon in detail. Without getting into a squirting match with anyone, here is how I understand female ejaculation, or the lack thereof.

In A New View of A Woman's Body (which I edited with Carol Downer), the Feminist Women's Health Centers revealed that just as the penis is more than its tip, the clitoris more than its pea-sized tip that everyone calls the clitoris. Both women and men have a collection of anatomical parts that make up their powerful genital organ systems. The Feminist Women's Health Centers actually redefined the entire clitoris as a group of anatomical parts that contribute to or are changed by orgasm. They also identified a tube of spongy erectile tissue that surrounds the female urethra that was unnamed and rarely illustrated in anatomy textbooks. They named it the "urethral sponge." They also found some research that identified two dozen or more tiny glands imbedded in the sponge that produce an alkaline fluid. Later, Dr. Milan Zaviacic did exhaustive research on this structure and named it the "female prostate." The Feminist Women's Health Centers clearly demonstrated that the sponge is an integral part of the whole clitoris.

BTW, the urethral sponge is similar to the spongy erectile tissue that surrounds the male urethra. And female ejaculate and male ejaculate are chemically similar. They both contain prostate specific antigen (PSA), a substance not found in urine. And the urethral sponge/female prostate is an integral part of the clitoral system, just like the male prostate is an integral part of the penile system. All female orgasms are clitoral no matter how they are stimulated, just like all male orgasms are penile.

What Whipple and Perry identified as the G spot is not an anatomical structure at all. Urologists Helen O'Connell and John Delancey did functional MRIs on the clitoris and reported that they did not find any structure that could be considered to be a "G spot." (Journal of Urology, February, 2006). What is being felt and stimulated is actually the urethral sponge or the female prostate, whichever you prefer to think of it as, and it can be felt and massaged through the vaginal wall. The urethral sponge is not part of the vagina, which a thin but very tough muscular sheath with few nerve endings. It's a clitoral structure.

In their original articles on the G spot, Whipple and Perry insisted that female ejaculation was a result of orgasm, but quickly retracted it. This dribble, spurt, squirt, or gush is a sign of a peak or peaks of pleasure that lead up to orgasm, but peak pleasure can certainly occur without ejaculation. And it can happen once or more, sometimes many more times, in a single sexual session. Or hey, not at all. And you do not have to press, push, massage, or rub the sponge through the vaginal wall to cause ejaculation.

There is no agreement as to why all women don't ejaculate. For some women, it's pretty reliable. For others, rarely, or not at all. Or, if you only do intercourse, you may ejaculate, but not notice it because it just oozes out and makes a wet spot on the bed which is usually attributed to the guy. Guys squirt reliably, but not that much and it's a cloudy, viscous goo. Some women simply don't have very many prostatic glands. And, according to Zaviacic, the structure varies quite a bit from woman to woman. The amount of fluid may be hormonally promoted, who knows? Some women, especially those who just do intercourse, may not get turned-on enough to ejaculate or let alone have an orgasm. And it is known that some women suppress their sexual response so they won't "wet the bed." Some videos show women ejaculating, but because no one evaluated the fluid, we don't know if it is ejaculate, Evian, beer, or bathwater. Interestingly, none of the women in Betty's videos ejaculated, but they seemed to be having a pretty good time anyway. Will somebody please update Dr. Oz?

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