{"id":36508,"date":"2023-06-22T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=36508"},"modified":"2023-06-22T23:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T23:02:32","slug":"female-ejaculation-squirting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humnutrition.com\/blog\/female-ejaculation-squirting\/","title":{"rendered":"A Juicy Guide to Female Ejaculation and Squirting\u2014Plus How to DIY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Female ejaculation. Squirting. Female orgasm.<\/p>\n\n\n

The mere mention of each of these terms can prompt an endless series of questions, curiosities, and misconceptions\u2014and even more so when they\u2019re paired alongside each other. Are female ejaculation and squirting the same thing? Is orgasm inevitably linked to either? Is squirting a goal worth striving towards\u2026 and achievable if you put your mind and action to it?<\/p>\n\n\n

In search of answers to these confounding questions about these sexual processes and pleasure, we reached out to Carol Queen, PhD<\/a>, Good Vibes staff sexologist and prolific sex-positive educator and activist.<\/p>\n\n\n

Demystifying Female Ejaculation and Sexuality<\/h2>\n\n\n

You likely completed compulsory high school sex ed classes. There\u2019s also the ubiquity of how-to guides, editorials, and other media linked to sexual wellness and pleasure. Nonetheless, why are most things specific to female sexuality, to this day, so damn confusing and unclear?<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cOne reason is the overall lower level of information\u2014and, it sometimes seems, curiosity\u2014 about women’s bodies, sexuality, and even health issues,\u201d shares Dr. Queen. (The same applies, she says, to people who are non-binary, assigned female at birth, transmasculine, or intersex.) Many people\u2014some doctors included\u2014default to a bias that it\u2019s all too complicated, prompting reluctance to pursue the facts.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThis gender binary is part of the problem as well, since it ignores everyone’s identity and experience aside from men and women, males and females\u2014and the presence and bodily experience of intersex people puts the lie to that notion,\u201d adds Dr. Queen. Plus, since ejaculation is strongly associated with male sexual pleasure, attributing the phenomenon to females tends to put people up in arms. \u201cIn my experience, this is one of the things that makes many people stubbornly insist that ejaculation in a sexual context must be urinary stress incontinence or fake if a man is not the one doing it,\u201d she continues. However, there\u2019s sufficient clinical evidence<\/a> supporting the notion that female ejaculation is, in fact, a real thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are Female Ejaculation and Squirting the Same?<\/h2>\n\n\n

Whether female ejaculation and squirting are the same thing is another point of contention. \u201cI’m familiar with some using the term \u2018squirting\u2019 and differentiating this from ejaculation,” Dr. Queen explains. “Initially these meant the same thing, with one just being slang for the other.” She prefers to use these terms interchangeably due to the diverse ways in which women (and trans men and non-binary people) can experience ejaculation. However, recent research appears to lean into the idea that they\u2019re not interchangeable.<\/p>\n\n\n

For instance, according to a 2022 review in Clinical Anatomy<\/em><\/a>, female ejaculation and squirting \u201care similar but etiologically different phenomena\u201d that may or may not occur simultaneously. The authors cite the following differences between the two:<\/p>\n\n\n\n