Female ejaculation, also known as squirting or gushing, has
gone from myth to reality and back to myth about as many times as the g-spot. While
some are touting that it, like the g-spot, doesn’t exist there are still many
others whose experience say otherwise. Female ejaculation does happen; it just
doesn’t happen to everyone and may not happen all the time. Let’s look into the
mechanics behind female ejaculation, the difference between ejaculation and
squirting/gushing, and dispel some misconceptions. Perhaps you’ll gain greater
understanding of why you do it if you already do it or give you ideas of how to
get it going if you’ve never experienced it.
A History Lesson
Reports of female ejaculation have shown up in ancient
literature. It’s written about in the Kama Sutra, in 4th century China, in
ancient Greece and Rome, 16th century Japan, the South Pacific, even in
Catholic documents dating back to the Middle Ages. In the 16th and 17th
centuries we find references in a couple of physician’s documents, Dutch
physician
Laevinius Lemnius in the 16th century and
François Mauriceau in the 17th century. In the
17th century, Dutch anatomist
Regnier
de Graaf’s studies included female ejaculation and he was the earliest to
begin to identify a part of the vagina that he linked to the male prostate.
This made him the first to refer to the periurethral glands as the female
prostate. Studies continued up until the 19th century when
Alexander Skene would
also identify the periurethral glands (glands around the
urethra) that
would be later known as the
Skene Glands.
Ernst Gräfenberg’s
work in the 20th century provide more knowledge about this erogenous or erotic
spot in the vagina, now known at the Gräfenberg or
G-spot, while also observing
female ejaculation. Interest in female ejaculation has only recently come to
the forefront of both conversation and research.