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EVEN
WOMEN DO IT:
FEMALE EJACULATION
In
the talk of men, you hear all sorts of stories. Woman is a collection
of push buttons. All you have to do is find the right one to drive
her wild. Perhaps she has behind the ear, perhaps behind the knee.
You touch her there and she falls in your arms gasping. That's how
a friend of mine described the clitoris to me when I was fifteen
years old.
Then there are the strangest preferences: the woman who wanted to
be slapped on the face, the woman who wanted to be sweared at, the
woman who goes wild if you talk to her in Russian like in the film,
"A Fish called Wanda".
Then there are the nymphomaniacs who are addicted to sex... they
can't do without it... From all these outlandish stories, sometimes
a story comes out of sexually-frenzied women that howl and slobber,
and what's more interesting, they start to pee themselves. Something
that, among other things, men find embarrassing.
These women are a little scary because they resemble men a lot.
They don't stay put, only lightly gasping; they get go wild and
display an immense pleasure from orgasm. And the fact that they
pee themselves, wetting you with their gush seems just a way to
dominate you... a sign of contempt or excess, like going too far
whoever pees himself from laughter.
Only when I began to methodically study sex, I discovered that those
spurts didn't come from the bladder but from somewhere else. Who
would ever have said that women could also ejaculate!
If a history of denied sexuality were to be written, one of the
most incredulous pages would be regarding female ejaculation. Even
today, it isn't talked about in sex education manuals, and in other
texts, this physiological reaction is mentioned with a background
of doubt.
Despite this, Aristotle already in the 1st century B.C. wrote about
it, noting that during orgasm woman emits a gush. It's said that
Galen (2nd century A.D. anatomist and doctor)
knew about it. Female ejaculation was then written about in many
pornographic texts, for example in "The Pearl", an English
anthology that collects stories of the Victorian era (the 19th
century), full of wet female orgasms.
But these stories were dismissed as mad male hallucinations. The
Nordic Theodor H. van De Velde published in 1926 a manual for married
couples in which he recounts that some women discharge a liquid
during orgasm. Only a few took him seriously.
Orgasm
with ejaculation has always been common knowledge among lesbians,
but it was inconceivable that doctors would take the declarations
of these "depraved women" seriously. Luckily many savages
manage better and have fewer problems not having distinguished gynecologists
to listen to.
The Batoro of Uganda consider a woman an adult and ready for marriage
only when she is able through masturbation to ejaculate, wetting
a wall. The older women teach the younger women how to do "kachapati",
which in the Batoro language precisely means "wetting the wall".
The inhabitants of some islands of the South Pacific Ocean, the
Trobriand, not only know the importance of the pelvic muscles and
the existence of the G-spot, but also judge that the woman has felt
pleasure only if she ejaculates. They have a very refined sexual
language, but call female ejaculation and male ejaculation with
the same word: "momona".
The curious thing is that this sexual behaviour has been recorded
by Western anthropologists, who though slaves of their own ignorance
and incapable of learning something from the savages, haven't understood
a thing. Thus, you find even today mentioned in anthropological
texts the strange custom of the Trobriand in which the women pee
on their men as a sign of gratification. Here is for example how
E. Gregersen in 1982 described the sexual customs of the Trobriand
on the basis of a certain Salesio's testimony (1960):
"She experiences one orgasm after another and involuntarily
urinates a bit at a time after each orgasm." This anthropologists'
error leads to another. Seen in fact that male and female ejaculation
in the in the language of the Trobriand are called equally "momona",
they reach the conclusion that the males are so perverse that they
pee during sex, which moreover is something physiologically very
difficult (for both man and woman). The liquid emitted during female
ejaculation has nothing to do neither with urine nor with vulva-vaginal
secretions that wet the female genitalia when the woman is excited
and that have the function to moisten it, making penetration easier
and more pleasant.
Only in 1981, the Dalhouisie University of Nova Scotia analyzed
this liquid. The research group that included Edwin Belzer Jr. and
Perry and Whipple published in the "Journal of Sex Research"
the results of the tests of the liquids taken from a few volunteers.
The response was that it dealt with an entirely different liquid
than urine and very similar to male seminal fluid (fortunately,
it doesn't contain sperm, or else we males would go on unemployment
insurance forever).
It appears that this liquid is produced from what in the woman is
the residue of the male prostrate gland. Professor Jannini's team
at the University of Ancona came to this conclusion in 1994. In
fact, it is only at the sixth week from conception that sexual differentiation
starts. The gonads appear initially, then the internal genitals,
and finally the external genitals. Human embryos before this date
are all the same, therefore ovaries and testicles have a common
structure. Every gland or organ in the male has its counterpart
in the female and vice-versa.
It's commonly said that an organ is "residual" or "atrophied"
when it doesn't have in the adult male or female an apparent function
and seems exactly the residue of the corresponding gland or organ
in the other sex. Even the prostate gland has always been considered
in the woman a residual gland. Kinsey described it thus circa 1950.
"Since the prostate gland and the seminal vesicles in woman
are only residual structures, in reality she doesn't ejaculate.
The muscular contractions of the vagina that follow orgasm can emit
some vaginal secretions, and in some cases, they expel them with
a certain force.
Especially in erotic literature, this phenomenon is defined as female
ejaculation, but the term cannot be used in that sense."
Even Masters and Johnson in 1966 denied the existence of female
ejaculation, saying that it dealt with a "an erroneous but
popular concept". And finally in 1970 Germaine Greer in her
book "The Female Eunuch" wrote: "The most false and
disparate ideas about women still circulate, even though they have
been refuted years ago. Many men still refuse to relinquish the
concept of female ejaculation, which even though it has a long and
glorious history, is pure fruit of the imagination".
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