Females ejaculate through urethra, just like males do, and not through vagina. Female urethra is not a part of vagina, so why is female ejaculation called vaginal_squirting?
Topic: Is vaginal_squirting an appropriate name?
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anon22 said:
Females ejaculate through urethra, just like males do, and not through vagina. Female urethra is not a part of vagina, so why is female ejaculation called vaginal_squirting?
Most places just tag it squirting. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
It's actually more complicated than that. Squirting can refer to a couple different things- one of which is involuntary urination which DOES come from the urethra. It can also refer to secretions that are believed to come from the skene's glands which are NOT in the urethra. It can ALSO refer to fluids inside the vagina (natural lubrication, etc) being squished out. As drawn it is normally depicted as fluids being expelled from the vagina.
regsmutt said:
It's actually more complicated than that. Squirting can refer to a couple different things- one of which is involuntary urination which DOES come from the urethra. It can also refer to secretions that are believed to come from the skene's glands which are NOT in the urethra. It can ALSO refer to fluids inside the vagina (natural lubrication, etc) being squished out. As drawn it is normally depicted as fluids being expelled from the vagina.
But Skene's glands ARE in the urethra, just like the prostate is. Urethra is the only way female can really and properly "ejaculate".
anon22 said:
But Skene's glands ARE in the urethra, just like the prostate is. Urethra is the only way female can really and properly "ejaculate".
They are not in the urethra. You can look up photos and diagrams of this- wikipedia has a very clear one.
regsmutt said:
They are not in the urethra. You can look up photos and diagrams of this- wikipedia has a very clear one.
In female human anatomy, Skene's glands or the Skene glands (/skiːn/ SKEEN, also known as the lesser vestibular glands or paraurethral glands) are two glands located towards the lower end of the urethra. The glands are surrounded by tissue that swells with blood during sexual arousal, and secrete a fluid, carried by the Skene's ducts to openings near the urethral meatus, particularly during orgasm.
(Pink emphasis added.)
clawstripe said:
Wikipedia disagrees.(Pink emphasis added.)
Near and towards =/= in. Literally look at the photo in the article. The gland opening is NOT in the urethra.
regsmutt said:
Near and towards =/= in. Literally look at the photo in the article. The gland opening is NOT in the urethra.
Touché. At least having a link to the reference material doesn't hurt.
The glands may be the source of female ejaculation, but this has not been proven.
Jeez. It's one thing for this to not be common knowledge in one or two infamously sex-negative countries like the US and the UK, but Wikipedia has contributors all over the world. Is this seriously something the entire field of gynecology hasn't figured out yet? Hell with female CEOs, clearly what we need is more women on the bleeding edge of biology research.
No, it hasn't been figured out yet. You'd need to surgically remove the glands then see how that changes the female's fluids. That's not an ethically sound study. What is known for female squirting, the fluid first builds up in the bladder. That was discovered through ultrasound imaging. The source of that fluid is still in debate due to low quality studies, but it's likely from multiple sources. To make everything a little more complicated, sometimes the skene's glands are connected to the urethra. Normally they aren't, but they can be (I don't know the rate of that, likely pretty low).
I agree education in this area is poor. There's female ejaculation and there's female squiring. Those are two distinct things. (Males can also ejaculate and males can also squirt, again two different things.) Annoying the related Wikipedia article gets it wrong, directly admits the terms are wrong, then continues using the non-scientific definitions. For squirting, well a lot of what you see in commercial porn is probably peeing, but squirting is generally a larger, longer, and more forceful expulsion of fluid. For ejaculation, it's more similar to a male's level of ejaculate (not sure about the force nor duration, but it's less than squirting).
In terms of e621, few images make a distinction between female squirting and ejaculating (and most fluids amounts/patterns aren't realistic for both sexes). Splitting them up probably isn't worth it. For female vs vaginal, there's a male_squirting but no female_squirting whereas female_ejaculation maps to vaginal_squirting. male_squirting vs vaginal_squirting is a bit odd.
If you want to squirt as a male, the easiest way to learn to do that is to isolate stimulation to only the top of the penis head. Oddly e621's wiki and other articles/studies on male squirting focus on prostate/anal stimulation while most how-tos from individual males focus on head rubbing. I've experienced both, some years apart, but they seemed different. There might be two types of male squirting. The anal route was more strong, involuntary contractions that squeeze out urine. The other route was more involuntary pleasurable pissing. More research is needed on everything.