Female “Squirting” Demystified- Is It The Same As Female Ejaculation?
Earlier this month, we explored the importance of Showing Yourself Some Love, by sharing some special ideas for self-dates as well as some small day-to-day things to do to improve your relationship with yourself.
Today, we are going to take it a step further.
If you’ve been online in the past couple years, you’ve probably heard about “squirting,” or female ejaculation. This term has risen in prevalence in recent years because of its spotlight in pornography and popular culture. So we have decided to do a deep dive to answer all of your lingering questions about this phenomenon.
How long has “squirting” been around?
Although it’s only become a “popular” subject for discussion fairly recently, as a biological function, “squirting” has been around for as long as human beings have been having orgasms! In fact, several ancient texts allude to squirting or come right out and discuss it explicitly, including 4th century Toaist texts and western texts beginning in the 16th century.
However, female anatomy (and especially female sexual anatomy) has taken a back seat in modern Western settings, so in recent history, this phenomenon has not been thoroughly explored - until now.
So, what is squirting?
As said earlier, “squirting” is a term for female ejaculation. As in, when a woman is reaching orgasm, she expels a quantity of liquid (a little or a lot) from her urethra.
Squirting goes hand in hand with having an orgasm; for some women, it happens every time they reach orgasm, while some others have never experienced it. Some researchers believe that every woman is capable of squirting, but only a fraction of the population report it happening when they experience orgasm.
But what is the liquid?
The urethra, of course, is the duct that urine escapes from when a person pees. Scientists studied the liquid expelled at orgasm by asking women who “squirted” during sexual activies to come in for their study - by examining the liquid expelled during squirting, they discovered that while the liquid does contain some urine, most of the samples also included “prostatic-specific antigen (PSA)” which, in women, is produced by the Skene glands (the “female prostate”).
This means that female ejaculate (PSA) is included in the liquid produced by “squirting” - making this liquid distinct from regular urine - although urine is also involved. What we understand as squirting is a mix of urine and PSA.
Should I be squirting?
Squirting is synonymous with ejaculating at climax for men. For some people, this is just the way their bodies experience orgasm. Since everybody (and every body) is different, some women may never “squirt” during sex.
We all know the importance of regular orgasms, and we’ve shed some light in the past on some tips to reaching the Big O if you’re having difficulty. So, whichever way your body expresses feeling good, enjoy the ride!
And also remember to lay down a towel.
