The question of the sexual phenomenon known as female ejaculation and whether there exists a female erogenous zone popularly known as the "G spot" have been major areas of continued controversy and debate among sex researchers, gynecologists and sex educators. Perhaps no two sexual issues, including the question of clitoral vs. vaginal orgasms, have created so much public interest.

These subjects are continuing to attract the attention of the public, particularly of women, as well as the so-called experts in human sexuality, because they are biological issues that have significant social ramifications.

What would be the potential impact on our collective sexual belief systems (and actual behaviors/activities) if female ejaculation and the existence of the G spot achieved widespread legitimacy?

Since the 1920's the conventional medical establishment has dismissed "female ejaculation" as actually being a condition known as urinary stress incontinence.

This condition is considered to be an undesirable bodily dysfunction in which urine is involuntarily expelled from the urethras of women due to physical straining such as might also occur with coughing or sneezing as well as sexual arousal or orgasm.

Women have generally considered such expulsions to be a source of personal shame or embarrassment that also frequently elicited disapproval from their sexual partners. Physicians usually attempt to correct the condition, either by the use of Kegel exercises or by surgery

Furthermore, noted experts in the field of human sexuality such as Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson dismissed female ejaculation as being an "erroneous but widespread concept."1 Masters and Johnson also argued against the existence of the erogenous zone known as the "G-spot" and stood steadfastly for the premise that the clitoris alone was responsible for triggering female orgasm.

However, if it should turn out that these experts had underestimated the sexual capabilities of women's bodies by portraying pleasurable sexual activities like female ejaculation as abnormal and/or imagined, it could have a significant effect on women's views of their sexuality.

If the new evidence about these expulsions demonstrated that they are natural sexual bodily functions then many women could be free of guilt and shame about expelling fluid during sex.

Other benefits of a public recognition of female ejaculation as a natural event (and the so-called G spot as an erogenous zone, capable of producing orgasm in a woman) could be the creation of additional sexual activities that might not just be a prelude to intercourse but an end unto themselves.

It could lead to a broadening of peoples' sensual experiences and their sexual repertoire. New pleasurable behaviors, with no goal other than pleasure from those activities, could be learned with the added benefits that they have very low risk in terms of AIDS, STDs and unwanted pregnancy.

All of these social issues become a backdrop for new evidence I discovered during my doctoral research project that, as a result of advanced and heightened states of sensual/sexual arousal, some women do expel fluid. In the past, the assumption has been that the expulsions originated either in the bladder or from the urethral glands and ducts.

My study indicated that both may be the case in that a small amount of fluid may be released from the urethral glands and ducts in some instances and mixed in the urethra with a clear fluid that originates in the bladder.

by Gary Schubach Ed.D., A.C.S.

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