Can women also ejaculate?

In 2001, the Japanese director Shohei Imamura released "Under the Red Bridge", whose protagonists are an unemployed middle-aged man and a mysterious woman whose vagina spurts a large amount of liquid during orgasm. What is the profound meaning that the play wants to convey, and what are its artistic gains and losses? These can be put aside for the time being, but the scene of the heroine ejaculating after sex left a deep impression on the audience and attracted widespread attention and discussion.

It is absurd for most women that women will discharge body fluids from their urethra during orgasm, and it is even more difficult for men to believe it. But the fact is that women ejaculate just like men. In Japan, this phenomenon is called "Squirting"

, Europe and the United States call it "female ejaculation"

Human anatomy has proven that the clitoral tissue is particularly similar to the penis, and both can become engorged and erect under sexual stimulation, ultimately leading to orgasm. Moreover, women have tissue similar to the prostate gland that produces most of the semen in men: a ring of tissue surrounding the urethra called the corpus spongiosum. The corpus spongiosum surrounds the urethra and consists of more than 30 glands. When sexually excited, it will become erect and secrete an alkaline fluid. These fluids are the body fluids discharged when women ejaculate.

※Many people believe that the squirting phenomenon was proposed by the Japanese. In fact, if you look at Chinese unofficial history, in "Xiu Tatsu Unofficial History" written by Qingdian Zhuren in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there is a record that women's vaginas squirt water after making love, and the amount is not inferior to the semen ejaculated by men. In the 1920s, Chinese sexologist Zhang Jingsheng also published the argument that women can spray out the "third kind of water" during orgasm. This so-called "third water" obviously refers to female ejaculation.

In the 1950s, Griffin, who discovered the female G-spot, observed the phenomenon of female ejaculation, which began to attract the attention of the sexology community. In 1983, three sexologists, Radzi, Whirlpool and Perry, found that continuous stimulation of a woman's G-spot can cause some women to rhythmically ejaculate a small amount of fluid indirectly through the urethra, just like male ejaculation. In 1978, Seferi and Bennett published a research report stating that some women do eject fluids other than urine from their urethra when they reach orgasm. In recent years, there has been increasing evidence showing that this is a natural phenomenon of female sexual physiology and that female ejaculation is not a lie.

As for how many women ejaculate during orgasm, the Kinsey Report suggests that the proportion is only around 40%. But at the World Congress of Sexology a few years ago, a report by a Slovak pathologist and forensic scientist, as well as several papers by several other sexologists, pointed out that almost every woman is likely to ejaculate during orgasm, but most only have 2-3cc of semen, which remains in the urethra and is expelled during the next urination. Regarding this, several experts believe that it can be confirmed by the level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA).

However, many people have always been skeptical about this, thinking that female ejaculation is not urinary incontinence, but just a little more secretion than usual. The results of a Spanish study may gradually change these people's ideas - when a woman is sexually excited, the secretions from the front wall of her vagina contain much more PSA than the secretions from the back wall? Obviously, not only does the female prostate exist, but we should also revise our past understanding of the source of vaginal secretions.

There is an important reason why female ejaculation is questioned. As Adam Dekunaga perceives, the number of women who actually experience squirting during sexual intercourse or who are born with a tendency to squirt is only 2 to 3 out of 100. This does not conflict with the conclusions of Kinsey and others. The amount of 2 to 3 cc, and the fact that it remains in the urethra, is enough to show that not all women know that they can reach the state of squirting.

※The reason why sex experts are reluctant to mention the phenomenon of female ejaculation is that they are worried about putting too much pressure on men. Just imagine, if a man is exhausted but still can't squirt, wouldn't that be very damaging to his reputation? Some women are also very embarrassed about squirting. Not only do they not feel sexy, but they feel ashamed. Some people even deliberately suppress this feeling to avoid squirting.

In fact, we should face female ejaculation calmly. Squirting is not mysterious. It is just a natural physiological phenomenon that occurs in some women during sexual intercourse. Men do not need to regard it as a sacred mission that they must accomplish. In fact, during sex, it is not important whether there is squirting or not. What is important is whether both men and women are satisfied and enjoy it.

Below are some excerpts from experts in Taiwan that may serve as a warning to men who like squirting.

Lin Yanqing, director of the Institute of Human Sexuality at Shu-Te University, said: "In fact, women don't need to worry about whether they can 'ejaculate', because women who can't ejaculate don't mean they don't have 'orgasms', they just express it in different ways. Sexually, as long as both parties feel happy, the most important thing is not to worry too much about some things, so that both parties can enjoy sex to the fullest."

Xu Jinyuan, attending physician of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mackay Memorial Hospital, said: "Women do have 'squirting', but it is not as exaggerated as described in porn movies or ancient books. Squirting is also called 'female ejaculation'. Some women secrete secretions different from urine during orgasm, about 2 to 3cc; more than this amount is urinary incontinence, so most of the porn movies show it.

Zheng Chengjie, attending physician of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cathay Hospital, said: "Although squirting and orgasm can be equated, the two are not a one-way street. A survey of women who have experienced ejaculation found that the pleasure of orgasm is the same regardless of whether they squirt or not. In other words, squirting is one of the manifestations of orgasm, but it does not mean that there is no orgasm without squirting."