Female ejaculation is a release or gush of fluid that women may experience during sexual activity. It is a normal part of female sexuality. Historical references to this aspect of female sexuality can be traced back in time to Greek and Roman culture, Ancient India, Chinese Taoism, 16th Century Japan, and even Catholicism in Medieval Europe.
Female ejaculation is emitted from the urethra. Women commonly mistake it for urine, because it can be preceded by the sensation of needing to pee. Consequently, women may hold back ejaculating and orgasming out of fear of urinating. Upon inspection, though, women and their sexual partners determine the fluid is not urine, because the fluid itself does not resemble urine visually, tactilely, or in taste or smell.
Women may release or gush ejaculate fluid in small to medium to large quantities. Female ejaculation is often associated with orgasm, but can occur throughout sexual arousal before, during, and after orgasm. It is also often associated with needing a sufficient or high level of arousal to occur. Female ejaculation is often linked to vaginal g-spot stimulation, but it can actually be produced through other types of sexual stimulation including combined vaginal g-spot and clitoral stimulation, and clitoral stimulation alone. Scientists suggest that the g-spot and the diversity in sexual stimulation producing female ejaculation can be explained by the movement and pressure that the clitoris places on the lower anterior wall of the vagina during sexual stimulation and arousal.
The chemical composition of female ejaculate fluid can be chemically comparable to male ejaculate fluid minus the sperm, and/or very diluted urine, and differs from urine by having: (a) higher levels of glucose; (b) higher levels of fructose; (c) higher levels of Prostatic Acid Phosphatase (PAP), an enzyme produced by the male prostate that is found in semen; (d) higher levels of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), the marker for identifying prostate tissue, which is also found in high levels in male ejaculate; (e) and lower levels of urea and creatinine, which are found in high levels in urine.
Female Ejaculation is theorized to originate in the female prostate based on the concept of homology, but from additional structures when large quantities are involved. Four different types of prostates have been identified and described in which the arrangement of the ductal and glandular tissue along the course of the urethra varies from woman to woman. They include the anterior (meatus), posterior, middle, and rudimentary types.
Currently, researchers are suggesting squirting/gushing and female ejaculation are two separate phenomena that can occur at the same time (Pastor, 2013; Rubio-Casillas & Jannini, 2011). The “true” female ejaculation is theorized to originate in the female prostate, is emitted in small amounts, and is white and thick. Squirting/gushing is theorized to originate in the bladder, is emitted in large amounts, and is watery in consistency (Pastor, 2013; Rubio-Casillas & Jannini, 2011).
Female ejaculation is theorized to play a functional role in women’s health and reproduction. Ejaculating may reduce bladder, urinary tract, and vaginal infections. The idea is that refraining from ejaculating may cause pelvic tension, which in turn may cause vaginal and urinary tract infections due to a reduction in lymph and blood flow, which in turn may impair the circulation of white blood cells making this anatomical region susceptible to infection. Ejaculating may be evolutionary advantageous and help to reproduce the species. The idea here is that women who ejaculate are more likely free from urinary tract infections, which in turn makes them more frequently available and open to coitus, which in turn makes them more likely to become pregnant, which in turn makes them more likely to reproduce the species. Due to containing fructose, ejaculating may play a similar role to male semen by ensuring the vitality and motility of sperm.
Scientists have identified three types of sexual response patterns among ejaculators based on digital g-spot stimulation: (a) relatively hard to induce expulsions, (b) easily induced expulsions, and (c) intermediate. The three response patterns differ based on amount of time involved to ejaculate, personal involvement in stimulation, specificity of stimulation, and type of stimulation needed.
Women have various emotional responses to ejaculating including shame and humiliation or exploration and wonder that grow over time into either resignation or acceptance. Ejaculating impacts and shapes the sexual identities and lives of women by women finding meaning in ejaculating, defining themselves by ejaculating, and seeing themselves as different because of ejaculating. Ejaculating also affects sexual decision-making such as partner selection, deciding whether or not to have sex, and deciding whether or not to control ejaculating.
Women experience female ejaculation for the first time in their teens, twenties, thirties, and beyond. They experience ejaculation for the first time in various types of sexual situations including masturbation and partnered sex. They also experience ejaculation for the first time in various types of sexual relationships with some type of personal connection. Three types of connection have been identified: (a) intimacy, closeness, friendship, or attraction; (b) functional; and (c) sexual exploration, discovery, learning, or experimentation. Women experience female ejaculation for the first time in sexual relationships in which they are experiencing elements that are distinct and unprecedented compared to previous and subsequent relationships in which they do not ejaculate.
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