WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:01.699 What is squirting? 2 00:00:02.639 --> 00:00:03.860 Is squirting pee? 3 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:05.940 Can all women squirt? 4 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:08.100 Is squirting always an orgasm? 5 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:14.179 Let's find out. Hi. My name is doctor Zhanna and I'm a sex researcher, professor of human sexuality 6 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:21.225 at New York University. And I recently sifted through all the research on female ejaculation 7 00:00:21.925 --> 00:00:29.305 from ancient Chinese texts from the fourth century all the way to biochemical analysis of what's in the female ejaculate 8 00:00:29.820 --> 00:00:31.280 from 2015. 9 00:00:31.740 --> 00:00:37.200 And I wanna share with you some of the knowledge that science has on female ejaculation. 10 00:00:38.220 --> 00:00:39.440 What is squirting? 11 00:00:40.300 --> 00:00:48.375 So squirting is basically the expulsion of fluid from the genital urinary tract in women that happens during sexual activity. 12 00:00:48.675 --> 00:00:54.434 It can be pleasurable and it can be accompanied with the subjective experience of an orgasm, but it doesn't have to. 13 00:00:54.434 --> 00:00:55.655 It often is not. 14 00:00:56.130 --> 00:00:59.750 What's the ejaculate made of and where does it come from? 15 00:01:00.290 --> 00:01:02.390 So this is the million dollar question. 16 00:01:02.850 --> 00:01:06.470 The specific content of the female ejaculate and the anatomical 17 00:01:06.850 --> 00:01:11.054 structures that it comes from are still being debated in the academic 18 00:01:11.354 --> 00:01:11.854 community. 19 00:01:12.234 --> 00:01:16.814 There are maybe eight or nine studies that have been published on this topic thus far 20 00:01:17.194 --> 00:01:23.454 and, many of them have fewer than 10 participants. So we still don't know a lot about this. 21 00:01:23.460 --> 00:01:26.200 But from what we know, there is as of now, 22 00:01:26.580 --> 00:01:27.720 tentative consensus 23 00:01:28.260 --> 00:01:29.240 that there are 24 00:01:29.540 --> 00:01:31.880 two different types of female ejaculate. 25 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:34.600 Okay. The first one is 26 00:01:34.900 --> 00:01:36.119 a small amount 27 00:01:36.580 --> 00:01:38.440 of milky white fluid. 28 00:01:39.045 --> 00:01:41.145 It's about a milliliter 29 00:01:41.445 --> 00:01:43.145 to fifteen, 20 ml, 30 00:01:43.685 --> 00:01:47.225 in amount. So something like this. Obviously, it's not blue. 31 00:01:47.925 --> 00:01:55.980 But it's, it's milky white and it's thought to come from the skin's glands which is the sort of female equivalent to the male prostate. 32 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.180 And we think this because that milky white substance 33 00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:03.100 contains high levels of prostate specific chemicals. 34 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.980 Now, the skin's glands, which are embedded in the wall of the urethra, 35 00:02:08.935 --> 00:02:11.755 they are themselves a bit of a mystery still. 36 00:02:12.135 --> 00:02:22.395 It is thought that maybe not all women have them, that maybe only about half of the women have them, and they can come in a lot of different variations in terms of size and positioning 37 00:02:22.830 --> 00:02:24.050 and types of ducts. 38 00:02:24.830 --> 00:02:29.730 The other type of female ejaculate is the gushing type. 39 00:02:30.030 --> 00:02:35.025 Right? The one that people see in porn, the one that is most often associated with sporty. 40 00:02:35.345 --> 00:02:37.685 Now, this is typically a clear 41 00:02:37.985 --> 00:02:39.125 odorless fluid 42 00:02:39.745 --> 00:02:43.364 that can range in quantity from something like 50 milliliters 43 00:02:44.064 --> 00:02:45.444 all the way up to 44 00:02:46.144 --> 00:02:46.944 900 45 00:02:46.944 --> 00:02:47.444 milliliters. 46 00:02:49.290 --> 00:02:50.350 900 milliliters. 47 00:02:51.210 --> 00:02:55.390 Now, this amount of gushing squirt is thought to 48 00:02:55.690 --> 00:02:58.430 come from and pass through the bladder 49 00:02:58.890 --> 00:03:00.110 and then gets expelled 50 00:03:00.410 --> 00:03:03.535 out of the body through the urethra just like urine 51 00:03:04.235 --> 00:03:05.615 does. Now depending on 52 00:03:05.915 --> 00:03:10.255 when a woman has peed or how much liquid she has consumed beforehand, 53 00:03:10.715 --> 00:03:16.655 this gushing squirt, its chemical composition can range from urine, or mostly urine, 54 00:03:16.955 --> 00:03:18.335 to highly, highly diluted 55 00:03:18.690 --> 00:03:22.629 urine. Is squirting something new that porn invented recently? 56 00:03:23.489 --> 00:03:23.989 No. 57 00:03:25.170 --> 00:03:26.790 Squirting or female ejaculation 58 00:03:27.410 --> 00:03:29.430 as part of pleasure and or orgasm 59 00:03:29.810 --> 00:03:32.150 has been mentioned by doctors, 60 00:03:32.530 --> 00:03:33.030 anatomists, 61 00:03:33.730 --> 00:03:34.230 poets, 62 00:03:34.595 --> 00:03:35.095 writers, 63 00:03:35.635 --> 00:03:37.174 psychologists later on 64 00:03:37.635 --> 00:03:42.295 in both Eastern and Western culture going back a few thousand years. 65 00:03:42.754 --> 00:03:53.110 So for example, in Asian China in the fourth century, from the fourth century on, there are poems, there are Taoist texts that mention, not as explicitly and as scientifically 66 00:03:53.489 --> 00:03:58.870 as we speak of it today, but in some way mention expulsion of fluid during orgasm. 67 00:03:59.330 --> 00:04:03.110 Similarly, in ancient Indian texts, in the Indian poems 68 00:04:03.564 --> 00:04:09.265 from dating back from the seventh century all the way to the sixteenth century, there are mentions of female ejaculation. 69 00:04:09.644 --> 00:04:11.584 In the ancient Western world, 70 00:04:12.045 --> 00:04:12.784 there is 71 00:04:13.084 --> 00:04:15.105 some possibility that Aristotle 72 00:04:15.405 --> 00:04:16.865 in 300 BC 73 00:04:17.485 --> 00:04:20.230 may have mentioned something about female ejaculation, 74 00:04:20.770 --> 00:04:23.030 as well as the second century famous, 75 00:04:23.570 --> 00:04:25.030 medical doctor, Gallon. 76 00:04:25.490 --> 00:04:27.110 Then in the sixteenth century, 77 00:04:27.570 --> 00:04:32.175 Rainier de Graaf provided the first scientific description of female ejaculation 78 00:04:32.555 --> 00:04:35.535 and he linked it to what he called the periurethral 79 00:04:36.074 --> 00:04:43.455 glands, which we today know as the Skene's glands, as the female prostate that this, female ejaculate came from. 80 00:04:43.675 --> 00:04:54.020 Unfortunately, our Western medicine forgot about de Graaf's discovery for many, many centuries, you know, because female pleasure and orgasms really weren't top priority during those times. 81 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:55.300 But fortunately, 82 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.375 we did rediscover it. So in the nineteen fifties, 83 00:04:59.835 --> 00:05:00.655 Ernst Grafenberg 84 00:05:01.275 --> 00:05:03.055 reported in a scientific article 85 00:05:03.435 --> 00:05:06.414 the role of the urethra in female orgasm, 86 00:05:06.955 --> 00:05:14.030 and that's when he linked this expulsion of fluid to stimulation of what we think of today as the g spot, the Grafenberg 87 00:05:14.410 --> 00:05:18.750 spot, and that is the anterior, the front wall of the, vagina. 88 00:05:19.130 --> 00:05:26.025 And in case you're thinking that, maybe modern Western porn has a monopoly on squirting, it does not. 89 00:05:26.025 --> 00:05:26.525 Apparently, 90 00:05:27.384 --> 00:05:31.405 during the very prudish Victorian times, there were pornographic 91 00:05:31.784 --> 00:05:32.284 novels 92 00:05:32.585 --> 00:05:34.205 describing female ejaculation. 93 00:05:35.370 --> 00:05:37.310 How many women have squirted? 94 00:05:37.850 --> 00:05:43.870 Well, we don't have a lot of evidence, but we have a couple of studies of this kind ever conducted, 95 00:05:44.170 --> 00:05:50.350 and they find that somewhere between forty and fifty five percent of women say that they've ever ejaculated. 96 00:05:51.285 --> 00:05:51.785 However, 97 00:05:52.085 --> 00:05:58.905 none of these studies has used a representative sample of any kind, so those percentages are highly unreliable. 98 00:05:59.525 --> 00:06:05.790 The honest answer, as of now, is we really don't know for sure. Can all women squirt? 99 00:06:06.330 --> 00:06:08.110 We simply don't know that. 100 00:06:09.050 --> 00:06:15.470 Because what exactly squirt is and where exactly does it come from is still being debated. 101 00:06:15.914 --> 00:06:23.055 We also don't know if all women have the anatomical and physiological structures necessary for female ejaculation to happen. 102 00:06:23.595 --> 00:06:25.455 There's been only one study 103 00:06:25.995 --> 00:06:29.600 that has tried to answer this question in a more experimental 104 00:06:29.979 --> 00:06:31.360 way, in a unorthodox 105 00:06:31.660 --> 00:06:32.160 way. 106 00:06:32.620 --> 00:06:37.040 So in this European study, the researchers, who are also mostly medical doctors, 107 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:42.155 brought into the lab 27 women. These were patients at a fertility clinic. 108 00:06:42.155 --> 00:06:46.175 It was unrelated to whether they had experienced squirting or not before. 109 00:06:46.475 --> 00:06:49.695 But they all agreed to be part of an unusual experiment. 110 00:06:50.315 --> 00:06:51.055 The researchers 111 00:06:51.515 --> 00:06:52.015 stimulated 112 00:06:52.395 --> 00:06:53.375 each of the women 113 00:06:53.915 --> 00:06:56.610 using either the researchers hands or toys 114 00:06:57.409 --> 00:07:01.509 on four separate occasions lasting up to an hour each. 115 00:07:01.569 --> 00:07:04.870 What they were trying to do is to get these women to squirt. 116 00:07:05.409 --> 00:07:07.830 Guess how many managed to squirt? 117 00:07:08.530 --> 00:07:09.909 Thirty seven percent. 118 00:07:11.085 --> 00:07:11.825 Sixty three 119 00:07:12.445 --> 00:07:17.505 percent did not manage to ejaculate even after four hours on four separate occasions 120 00:07:18.125 --> 00:07:20.065 of trying really, really hard. 121 00:07:20.365 --> 00:07:22.465 Now, of course, this is only one study 122 00:07:22.780 --> 00:07:28.880 and with only 27 women done a while ago. So you could argue that maybe the researchers didn't 123 00:07:29.260 --> 00:07:32.800 really do this very successfully and that we certainly need more research. 124 00:07:33.020 --> 00:07:39.935 There is no doubt from more anecdotal experience, like my business partner Kenneth Play, who's been sort of famous 125 00:07:40.235 --> 00:07:40.715 for, 126 00:07:41.115 --> 00:07:52.310 successfully getting women to squirt, his success rate for first time squirters has been actually much higher than this thirty seven percent, and his sample size also is higher. 127 00:07:52.370 --> 00:07:53.510 So possibly 128 00:07:54.770 --> 00:08:01.030 more women or most women could squirt, but we just don't have a good scientifically proven answer to that question. 129 00:08:01.490 --> 00:08:02.790 What type of stimulation 130 00:08:03.295 --> 00:08:04.835 gets women to squirt? 131 00:08:05.055 --> 00:08:09.955 So the most well known, sort of famous way that people talk about squirting or teach squirting 132 00:08:10.495 --> 00:08:16.035 or think that squirting happens is the come hither motion. So basically, two fingers, about two 133 00:08:16.840 --> 00:08:25.100 fingers, about two knuckles in with doing that come hither motion inside the vagina, stimulating the interior or the front wall of the vagina. 134 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:29.180 However, in the few studies of squirters that we have, 135 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:35.634 this was not always the go to method for all or even for most of the women who had experience with squirting. 136 00:08:36.014 --> 00:08:38.014 In one study of 230 137 00:08:38.014 --> 00:08:39.235 squirters, for example, 138 00:08:39.615 --> 00:08:45.949 thirty five percent said that it was this type of come hither internal vaginal stimulation that got them to squirt. 139 00:08:46.569 --> 00:08:50.269 Nineteen percent said it was actually external clitoral stimulation. 140 00:08:50.889 --> 00:08:57.470 And seventy two percent said it required both or that the most typical way for them to squirt was to have both external 141 00:08:57.815 --> 00:08:59.195 and internal stimulation. 142 00:08:59.654 --> 00:09:02.295 In another study of 320 143 00:09:02.295 --> 00:09:02.795 squirters, 144 00:09:03.255 --> 00:09:04.635 it was evenly split. 145 00:09:04.695 --> 00:09:14.700 About fifty percent of the women said that it happened primarily through external clitoral stimulation, the other fifty percent said that it happened primarily through internal vaginal stimulation. 146 00:09:15.400 --> 00:09:19.180 How common is squirting with clitoral and or vaginal activity? 147 00:09:19.880 --> 00:09:20.940 Not very common. 148 00:09:21.400 --> 00:09:22.940 So even amongst squirters, 149 00:09:23.880 --> 00:09:29.395 only about fifteen to twenty percent said that it happens with most or all of their orgasms. 150 00:09:30.015 --> 00:09:36.355 In another study where researchers stimulated the clit of 38 healthy women 151 00:09:36.655 --> 00:09:41.210 using a vibrator and then checked for any kind of expulsion of fluid from either 152 00:09:41.670 --> 00:09:44.010 the vaginal opening or the urethra, 153 00:09:44.470 --> 00:09:49.610 they found that not a single one of the women expelled any fluid during orgasm. 154 00:09:50.470 --> 00:09:52.650 And going back to Masters and Johnson, 155 00:09:53.345 --> 00:10:05.340 where in their study of almost 400 women over eleven years, where they recorded complete cycles of sexual activity, they found very, very few cases of female ejaculation. 156 00:10:05.900 --> 00:10:12.400 So few, in fact, that they thought that female ejaculation wasn't even real because it was just not very common. 157 00:10:12.540 --> 00:10:13.600 So bottom line, 158 00:10:13.980 --> 00:10:19.035 female ejaculation is not a very common activity for most women most of the 159 00:10:19.834 --> 00:10:22.175 time. Is squirting always an orgasm? 160 00:10:23.035 --> 00:10:23.535 No. 161 00:10:24.315 --> 00:10:26.415 Now, we tend to associate 162 00:10:26.795 --> 00:10:31.870 something coming out with an orgasm because that's what you see in men most of the time. 163 00:10:31.870 --> 00:10:37.810 When something is coming out of their penises, they are at the same time having the subjective experience of an orgasm. 164 00:10:37.949 --> 00:10:41.570 For women, that is not necessarily the case. Sometimes, 165 00:10:41.949 --> 00:10:47.565 yes, when you are squirting, you are having the experience of reaching a climax, but at other times, 166 00:10:48.024 --> 00:11:02.130 that physical expulsion of fluid, which can sometimes be involuntary because someone is providing the right kind of stimulation and something is coming out, that may not at all be paired up with the subjective experience of reaching that climax. 167 00:11:02.350 --> 00:11:03.330 In fact, sometimes 168 00:11:03.870 --> 00:11:11.995 it can even feel a little unpleasant or feel like it's hurting and it's not actually at all related to pleasure and or orgasm. 169 00:11:11.995 --> 00:11:13.135 It's just a physical 170 00:11:13.435 --> 00:11:14.575 thing that happens. 171 00:11:15.115 --> 00:11:16.735 Is a squirting orgasm 172 00:11:17.195 --> 00:11:21.615 better or stronger or more intense than a regular non squirting orgasm? 173 00:11:22.410 --> 00:11:22.910 Science 174 00:11:23.610 --> 00:11:25.230 honestly doesn't know yet. 175 00:11:25.690 --> 00:11:30.589 There is very, very, very, very limited data on this question. In fact, 176 00:11:31.050 --> 00:11:33.310 there have been only two squirters 177 00:11:34.089 --> 00:11:49.365 in one study that have been asked this question ever in the published academic literature, whether, you know, they thought their squirting orgasms were more intense than their non squirting orgasms, and both of them said, yes, it was more intense, it was better when they came, 178 00:11:49.745 --> 00:11:53.445 together with squirting versus when they came without squirting. However, 179 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:59.500 this is really no data at all, and we need a lot more data on this particular topic. 180 00:11:59.640 --> 00:12:01.100 From anecdotal evidence, 181 00:12:01.880 --> 00:12:04.460 we know that for some women, it is indeed 182 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.740 much more stronger or better or more intense 183 00:12:08.145 --> 00:12:13.205 when they have an orgasm paired with squirting than when they have a non squirting orgasm. 184 00:12:13.345 --> 00:12:15.665 For other women, it doesn't make much of a difference. 185 00:12:15.665 --> 00:12:21.125 For other women, it's actually somewhat unpleasant when they're squirting, so it's not at all an orgasm. 186 00:12:21.380 --> 00:12:23.399 But there is a fair amount of variability 187 00:12:24.100 --> 00:12:27.220 both across different women and within women. 188 00:12:27.220 --> 00:12:34.040 So even the same woman can sometimes feel like that squirting orgasm was absolutely mind blowing versus this squirting orgasm 189 00:12:34.574 --> 00:12:39.154 was really, like, a lot worse than the non squirting orgasm she had ten minutes ago. 190 00:12:39.214 --> 00:12:41.074 So given how little information 191 00:12:41.375 --> 00:12:43.714 science has right now about squirting, 192 00:12:44.175 --> 00:12:46.194 we really, really need more. 193 00:12:46.709 --> 00:12:53.209 So if you're a squirter or if you've ever squirted before, please take this short anonymous survey 194 00:12:53.510 --> 00:13:05.485 to give us a little more information about your experience with squirting, like how often it happens and how it happens and how much squirt comes out and many other things that we're all fascinated and want to know more about. 195 00:13:05.785 --> 00:13:09.885 If you've never squirted before and you're curious to maybe learn how, 196 00:13:10.265 --> 00:13:17.959 please check out this squirting play lab by Kenneth Play and then take the survey to report on your experiences. 197 00:13:18.579 --> 00:13:22.040 If you like this video, please give us the thumbs up. 198 00:13:22.180 --> 00:13:26.279 And if you wanna watch more videos like this, please subscribe to our channel.