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The Vagina
Ejaculation from the vagina?
Some (by no means all!) women also expel some fluid from the urethra during orgasm. In the past, it was often assumed that the fluid could only be urine, and this caused the women some embarrassment. Sometimes another explanation was given: The fluid must have come from the vagina itself, perhaps as sudden excessive lubrication or as secretion from the Bartholin's glands. However, both explanations were wrong: The fluid did indeed come from the urethra, but it was not urine. Recent research suggests that the fluid is secreted by a system of urethral (or paraurethral) glands, i.e., glands which surround the urethra and open into it. This system of glands is more developed in some women than in others. In any case, it corresponds to the prostate in males, which also surrounds the urethra. Some researchers have therefore gone so far as to speak of a "female prostate." By the same token, the expulsion of fluid from this glandular system during orgasmic contractions has been called "female ejaculation," especially since the fluid itself has been shown to be similar to male prostatic fluid. (There are no sperm cells in these "female ejaculations", of course). |
