The debate in the current literature focuses on three
threads: the existence of female ejaculation, its source(s) and composition,
and its relationship to theories of female sexuality.This debate has been
influenced by popular culture, pornography, and physio-chemical and behavioral
studies. There is some resistance from feminists to what has been perceived as
a male lens in interpreting the data and construct. Often the debate is also
tied to the existence of the G-spot stimulation of the anterior
vaginal wall involves simultaneous stimulation of the para-urethral tissue, the
site of the Skene's glands and ducts and presumed source of the
ejaculated fluid, and therefore it has been variously stated that stimulation
of this spot results in ejaculation. These tissues, surrounding the distal
urethra, and anterior to the vagina, have a common embryological origin to the
prostatic tissue in the male.
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The discussion entered popular culture in 1982 with the
publication of the best-selling book The G Spot and Other Recent
Discoveries About Human Sexuality, by Ladas, Whipple, and Perry. The
book discussed female ejaculation and brought the issue back into discussions
of women's sexuality both in the medical community and among the general
public. This was a popular account of three papers by the authors, the previous
year, at the suggestion of Alice Khan Ladas. Rebecca Chalker notes that this
book was largely met with scorn, skepticism and disbelief.[11]The
chapter on 'Female Ejaculation' is largely based on anecdotal testimony, and
illustrates another issue in the debate, the weight placed on anecdotes and
small numbers of observations rather than biomedical investigation or clinical
trials. Importantly, a number of the women stated that they had been diagnosed
with urinary incontinence. The book advances another feminist theory: that
because women's pleasure in their sexuality has been historically excluded, the
pleasure of ejaculation has been either discounted or appropriated by health
professionals as a physiological phenomenon. Whipple continued to publicise her
discoveries, including a 9 min video made in 1981 Orgasmic Expulsions
of Fluid in the Sexually Stimulated Female. In 1984, the Journal
of Sex Research described the debate surrounding female ejaculation as
'heated'. Josephine Sevely then followed up her 1978 study by publishing
"Eve's Secrets: A new theory of female sexuality" in 1987,
emphasising an integrated rather than fragmented approach to understanding female
sexuality, with the clitoris, vagina and urethra depicted as a single sexual
organ. This not only challenged the traditional fragmentation of female
sexuality into clitoral vs. vaginal sensation, but also sexualised the urethra.
The continuing debate is further illustrated in the angry exchange of letters
between the author and researchers in the American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2002 following the publication of 'The
G-spot: A modern gynecological myth' by Terrence Hines. As of 2007, and
2008 the existence of a female prostate and of ejaculation are a matter of
debate, and articles and book chapters continue to appear with subtitles such
as "Fact or Fantasy".
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