Female Ejaculation 101: Setting a Record the Wrong Way | Sex

There are many things that both men and women are capable of doing, but that only men are truly known for: building houses, flying planes, and, in case you missed the memo, ejaculating.

While progress has been made on these and other fronts, the latter remains one of the most controversial of all. So much so that in 2014, the British Board of Film Classification banned face-sitting and female ejaculation in pornographic films. blocked. Why? Because it was on the list of acts deemed too obscene or dangerous. Again, why? Because apparently female ejaculation, aka squirting, cannot be reliably distinguished from pee and is therefore too offensive for porn.

These (to be blunt and offensive) bodily fluid policies could lead an alien life form peering down at us from afar to draw the following conclusions: a) male pleasure is the main event, and b) female pleasure is bad/indecent/gross/questionable at best. Sigh. And of course, to complicate matters further, the fetishization of squirting in some circles has led some women to believe that squirt (as depicted in mainstream porn) is expected of them, in an oppressive way. No matter how you look at it, it seems like everyone has their dull, conservative minds in their underwear, and very few of them have the anatomy that would qualify them for such explorations.

So, as “controversial” as it may sound, here are some basic facts about female ejaculation to set the record straight (or falsify it, for those of us who don’t subscribe to linear, entirely definable worldviews):

A bit of history

200–400 AD: The Kama Sutra mentions the “female sperm” which “falls continuously”.

16th century: Dutch physician Laevinius Lemnius described how a woman “extracts the man’s seed and throws her own with it.” At the time, many believed that female ejaculation was necessary to produce a baby.

17th century: François Mauriceau described glands near the female urethra that “pour large quantities of saline fluid during coitus, which increases the heat and pleasure of women.” Dutch anatomist Reinier de Graaf, meanwhile, stated that he believed the fluid in question “which in libidinous women often gushes forth at the mere sight of a handsome man” came from several sources, including the vagina, urinary tract, cervix and uterus, as well as Skene’s ducts.

19th century: In Sexual psychopathyIn an 1886 study of sexual perversion by Austro-German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebing, female ejaculation was classified as “congenital sexual inversion in women” and associated with neurasthenia and homosexuality.

The Modern Science of Ejaculation

There are not many studies on squirtand those that do exist are small (why doesn’t science get its priorities straight already?). However, while scientists don’t fully agree on the exact origins of our sweet, unclassifiable nectar, de Graaf was probably right when he discovered that it was a combination of factors.

Although the enigmatic elixir in question comes from the urethra, it is created in the Skene’s gland, aka the female prostate, which is said to be part of the G-spot. Get it? Tests have shown that the fluid contains prostatic acid phosphatase (PSA), an enzyme found in male semen that aids in sperm motility. It also tends to contain fructose, just like male semen.

For years, the scientific community believed that women who ejaculated suffered from incontinence, but this hypothesis has since been disproven. A 2014 study of seven women (the same year that squirting was banned in the UK in pornographic films) found that fluid accumulated in the bladder during arousal and exited through the urethra during ejaculation. Ultrasound scans were first used to confirm that the participants’ bladders were empty. The women then stimulated themselves until ejaculation, while continuing to be monitored by ultrasound. The results? All participants started with empty bladders that quickly began to fill during arousal. Post-ejaculation scans revealed that the participants’ bladders were empty again.

According to the International Society for Sexual Medicine, between 10 and 50 percent of women ejaculate during sex. However, in an older study of 233 women, 14 percent of participants reported ejaculating during all or most orgasms, while 54 percent reported doing so at least once. When the same researchers compared urine samples before and after orgasm, they found more PSA in the latter case, leading to conclusions that all Women produce ejaculate but are not always aware of it because it sometimes returns to the bladder to be evacuated during urination.

More fun facts

According to Pornhub data analysts, women are 44% more likely to search for squirting videos than men, and the popularity of squirting declines with age. Review of Bellesa’s 2017 year It has been confirmed! Worldwide, visitors from Colombia, South Africa, Venezuela, Vietnam and Slovakia are much more likely to search for squirting videos than people from other countries.

Bottom line: In case you’ve been led to believe otherwise, there is no right or wrong way to have an orgasm, you idiot. Whether you wet the bed, convulse without a drop falling, or even feel pleasure without If you don’t have an orgasm at all, anyone passing judgment on the sanctity and truthfulness of the predicament, purpose, or pleasure of your poompoom should be quickly dismissed.