A small number of women can vigorously release a clear fluid during orgasm, and long-standing speculation about the origin of that fluid has now finally been dismissed thanks to a team of Japanese urologists.
Japanese urologists have confirmed that the “squirt” that some women experience during orgasm is actually fluid being expelled from the bladder. This solved one of the long-standing mysteries of the female orgasm.
Women can produce several types of fluids during intercourse. During the arousal phase, the vagina releases a fluid that is used for lubrication. Once a woman reaches orgasm, two other types of fluid can sometimes be released from the urethra: a milky fluid that is released in small amounts, and a clear fluid that is released in large amounts, often hundreds of milliliters.
Previous study
Until recently, both orgasmic fluids were described as female ejaculation. However, now the term is reserved only for the milky fluid, while the aforementioned “squirting” is used to describe the release of the clear fluid. It is believed that about five percent of women in Western countries emit a clear liquid during orgasm, but until now there have been doubts about what this liquid is and where it comes from.
An earlier 2014 study led by French gynecologist Samuel Salama, who currently works at Poissy Saint Germain en Laye Hospital in Paris, suggested that the release of this clear fluid during a female orgasm involves the expulsion of urine from the bladder, as ultrasound in seven women who can experience such an orgasm showed that their urine was full immediately before release and empty immediately after orgasm.
Removal of all doubts
To dispel all the doubts and mystery surrounding it, Miyabi Inoue, a urologist at the Miyabi Urogyne Clinic in Japan, and her colleagues injected a blue dye mixed with water into the bladders of five female volunteers who could release a large amount of clear fluid during orgasm. . A male volunteer was involved in the whole story, whose task was to stimulate the female volunteers. A related study on this is published in the International Journal of Urology.
Urologists had the task of collecting the fluid in a sterile cup, but as they themselves admitted, it was not that simple. It’s difficult to collect the fluid because the direction of injection is variable, Inoue says.
However, the most important thing that was discovered was that in all cases the released liquid was blue.
This confirms that it originates from the bladder. But there are still so many questions, such as whether the liquid has the same composition as urine. And why do some women expel this fluid and others do not? says Jessica Påfs, a sexologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
There were no cases of urinary incontinence
All of the women in the study had good bladder control, indicating that their squirting was not caused by urinary incontinence, Inoue added.
In the same way, the Japanese urologists noticed that during orgasm the four volunteers in the study also experienced female ejaculation and that the two fluids mixed in the urethra.
It is a special physiological process that involves the secretion of several milliliters of less thick, milky fluid from small glands into the urethra called Skene’s glands or the “female prostate.” The fluid contains prostate-specific antigen (PSA), which is also present in the ejaculate produced by the male prostate.
A hit in Rwanda?
Påfs found that women’s experiences with such a powerful orgasm vary widely. She interviewed 28 women in Sweden who had been able to orgasm this way and found that some found it very pleasurable, while others described it as overrated or unpleasant. Some women told Påfs that they did it involuntarily, while others learned how to achieve and control it through practice.
Påfs also studied women’s experiences with this type of orgasm in Rwanda, where this form of pleasure is highly celebrated.
