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This article is edited from a paper by Doctor Beverly Whipple
Female ejaculation refers to the expulsion of fluid from the urethra that is different from urine. The fluid is described as looking like watered-down fat-free milk, tasting sweet, and usually about a teaspoon (3–5 cc) in volume. The biological phenomenon of female ejaculation has been a normal and pleasurable experience of many women’s sexuality. Aristotle was probably the first to write about female ejaculation and Galen is said to have known about it in the second century C.E. In 1672 in his New Treatise Concerning The Generative Organs Of Women, De Graff described the female prostate and the fluid from the urethra in some detail. Female ejaculation was a tradition in ancient cultures of China, India, Japan, and other areas of Asia and Africa. The Romans called these fluids liquor vitae, and in ancient India, the fluids were known as a amrita (nectar of the gods).
Where is the female G spot?
The area of the Grafenberg spot in women is located about halfway between the back of the pubic bone and the cervix, along the course of the urethra. It is a sensitive area that is felt through the anterior wall of the vagina, which swells when it is stimulated. Drs. John Perry and Beverly Whipple named this area the Grafenberg spot to commemorate the research of Dr. Ernst Grafenberg, a German-born obstetrician and gynecologist, who developed the first IUD. In 1944, Grafenberg and Robert L. Dickinson described a zone of erogenous feeling located along the suburethral surface of the anterior vaginal wall. In 1950, Dr. Grafenberg wrote about the sensitive area on the anterior wall of the vagina, which when stimulated seems to cause the female urethra to enlarge and swell. He also described a fluid from the urethra that is different from urine.
What is female ejaculation?
Perry and Whipple rediscovered the sensitive area they named the Gräfenberg spot while teaching women Kegel exercises using biofeedback for stress urinary incontinence. Some of the women who reported that they lost fluid from their urethra had very strong pelvic floor muscles, while women with stress urinary incontinence usually have weak pelvic floor muscles. The women with strong pelvic floor muscles also reported that they only lost fluid from their urethra during sexual stimulation and some during orgasm. This led Perry and Whipple to conduct a study comparing the pelvic muscle strength of women whom they called ‘female ejaculators’ to women who did not experience female ejaculation. The results of this study demonstrated that the pelvic muscle strength of women who experience female ejaculation was significantly stronger than the women who did not have this experience. These women described the fluid as looking like watered-down fat-free milk, tasting sweet, not smelling like urine, and about a teaspoon (3–5 cc) in volume.
The woman who experienced female ejaculation also reported that there seemed to be a sensitive area felt through the anterior wall of their vagina and stimulation of this area caused the expulsion of fluid from their urethra and in some cases an orgasm that felt different from their orgasm from clitoral stimulation. They reported that the orgasm felt deeper inside their body and produced a bearing down sensation, with the uterus pushing down into the vagina, rather than the tenting effect of the vagina (where the end of the vagina balloons out and the uterus pulls up), as reported at orgasm by Masters and Johnson in 1966, in response to clitoral stimulation. Perry and Whipple’s team of medical doctors and nurse practitioners examined over 400 women and found this sensitive area, which swells when it is stimulated with a ‘come here’ motion, in all women tested. The women were lying on their back and the stimulation of the area felt through the anterior vaginal wall was done with two fingers, with the palm of the hand up, of the person doing the stimulation. They then named this area the Gräfenberg spot after Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg, who wrote about the sensitive area that surrounds the urethra and the expulsion of a fluid from the urethra that is different from urine.
Female ejaculation | Urine smell?
It was concluded, after conducting hundreds of studies, that the fluid expelled through the urethra comes from the female prostate gland. The fluid has been analyzed chemically, all studies finding that the chemical components of the ejaculated fluid were significantly different from urine from the same subjects. Specifically, the ejaculate contains high levels of prostatic acid phosphatase, prostatic specific antigen, glucose, and fructose, but low levels of urea and creatinine. The chemical composition of healthy urine is the opposite of female ejaculate, so they are easily differentiated from each other. That is, healthy urine contains high levels of urea and creatinine and no prostatic acid phosphatase, prostatic specific antigen, or glucose (of course, the urine of persons with diabetes may contain glucose). Other researchers have described the occurrence of female ejaculation without performing any chemical analysis. There are many films and books claiming to teach women to ejaculate, but these films and books do not report an analysis of the fluid, and the amounts shown to be expelled in these films are much larger than those collected and analyzed in laboratory settings.
Squirting and gushing orgasms | Is female ejaculation urine?
Biochemical evidence demonstrates that the clear and abundant fluid that is ejected in gushers is different from the real female ejaculation, and also is different from urine from the same subject. Consequently, it is questionable as to whether in those cases the large amounts of fluid are female ejaculate or, more likely, dilute urine. It is evident that some women expel a fluid that is different from urine during sexual activities and orgasm and some women may also expel urine. In some women, G spot stimulation, orgasm, and female ejaculation are related, while in others they are not. There are reports that some women have experienced female ejaculation with orgasm from clitoral stimulation and some women have reported experiencing ejaculation without orgasm.
The A Spot
The A spot, the anterior fornix erogenous zone or AFE zone, was described by Chua Chee Ann, a Malaysian physician, as a possible sexual stimulatory region in women. It is a region of sensitive tissue on the anterior vaginal wall, proximal to the area of the vaginal wall through which the area of the G spot is stimulated, and just before the cervix. Dr Chua suggests that not all women will find this area spontaneously sensitive. He says that some women need a fair amount of practice with the A spot stimulation technique before the area becomes erotically sensitized.
The G Spot
The tissues that compose the area of the G spot have been reported by many. The G spot is probably composed of a complex network of blood vessels, the parauretheal glands and ducts (female prostate), nerve endings, and the tissue surrounding the bladder neck. In The Orgasm Answer Guide, it was noted that the area the clitorisurethra-vaginal complex (also known as the area of the G spot) contains several different organs in this highly complex body region. ‘These include 1) the anterior vaginal wall, 2) the urethra, 3) the Skene’s glands (also called the para-urethral glands or female prostate gland), 4) perhaps other glands in this region (vestibular glands, Bartholin’s glands), 5) the surrounding muscle and connection tissue, and 6) perhaps even portions of the clitoris.’
In 2012 in the ‘Controversies in Sexual Medicine’, in the Journal Of Sexual Medicine, research was reviewed in which it was demonstrated that women can experience orgasm from many forms of stimulation and that the assumption that women may experience only the clitoral, external orgasm is not based on the best available scientific evidence.
Your sex life
It is important for women and their male and female partners to know that the phenomenon of female ejaculation is a normal part of healthy sexuality. Many women reported that they had surgery to correct this fluid expulsion and others reported that they stopped experiencing orgasm. It is also important for health care providers to be aware of this phenomenon and to help their patients to realize that this is a normal, healthy part of female sexual responses. When writing about my research findings, I have ended one article with the following: ‘I want to conclude by saying that orgasm in women is in the brain, it is felt in many body regions, and it can be stimulated from many body regions as well as from imagery alone. Orgasm is not a just a reflex, it is a total body experience. We need to continue to be open to documenting the various pleasurable sensual and sexual experiences reported by women. It is important to be aware of the variety of sexual responses that women report and that have been documented in the laboratory. It is also important not to put women into a model of only one or two ways to experience sensual and sexual pleasure, satisfaction, and orgasm. Women need to be encouraged to feel good about the variety of ways they experience sexual pleasure, without setting up specific goals (such as finding the G spot, experiencing female ejaculation, or experiencing an orgasm from vaginal stimulation). Healthy sexuality begins with acceptance of the self, in addition to an emphasis on the process, rather than the goals of sexual interactions.’
We need scientific studies and then acceptance of the reports of women’s sensual and sexual pleasure, we do not need any more spots.
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Beverly Whipple declares no conflict of interest.
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