Gynaecologists continue to find out the phenomenon of ejaculation among women

January 26, 2015  23:48

Female ejaculation is a rare phenomenon. Some 10 to 50 per cent of women squirt at orgasm.

Sometimes a woman's ejaculation is confused with urine, but they have nothing to do with each other. The fluid  comes from women's equivalent of the prostate gland.

Female ejaculation has been a subject that intrigued Ancient Romans, where the fluid was supposed to have magical properties, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

So the French gynaecologists in the new study decided to chemically analyse the fluid and take scans of women's bladders in an attempt to answer the question once and for all.

Seven women participated in the study. The researchers recruited seven women who reported being able to 'squirt' readily upon orgasm.

The women first went to the bathroom and then had pelvic ultrasounds taken to check that their bladders were empty.

Then in laboratory conditions women were sexually stimulated, until they reached orgasm, which took between 25 and 60 minutes.

Just prior to the women reaching orgasm they had another scan and another again immediately after ejaculating. The scans found that, sure enough, their bladders were empty after they went to the bathroom and before the experiment started. In the second scan however, their bladders were full again and then empty in the final scan, indicating they had indeed urinated.

Analyses of the fluid samples produced other results. Thus, five of the women expressed urine but also had prostatic-specific antigen (PSA) present in their emission.

The other two women showed no difference in the chemicals present in their urine and the fluid squirted at orgasm, so researchers have not yet made a final conclusion.

Follow NEWS.am Medicine on Facebook and Twitter


 
  • Video
 
 
  • Event calendar
 
 
  • Archive