Is squirting urine?

When aroused, some women may experience squirting, or a rather noticeable discharge of fluid. What it is exactly and where it comes from has been hotly debated: female ejaculation or adult bedwetting? Researchers are now saying that squirting is essentially involuntary urination. Squirting, on the other hand, results in a much larger gush of a clear fluid, which comes from the urethra, the duct where urine is conveyed from the bladder. The findings , which combine biochemical analyses with pelvic ultrasounds, were published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine on Christmas Eve. All of the women had empty bladders before sexual excitation, however, urine collected just before squirting showed that the bladder was filling up.

By Helen Thomson. Come to think of it, the answer may be best kept to yourself. You may have heard that it was banned from being shown in British porn films last year. But what exactly is it? Researchers have now come a step closer to defining this controversial phenomenon , by performing the first ultrasound scans on women who express large amounts of liquid at orgasm. Some women express liquid from their urethra when they climax. For some, this consists of a small amount of milky white fluid — this, technically, is the female ejaculate.

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Okay everyone, it's time to talk about female ejaculation - because it's not as mysterious as many would like to believe. Scientists have found evidence that women who 'squirt' are expelling one of two different types of liquid - one pure urine, and the other a combination of urine and fluid from the female prostate gland. Researchers in France back in were the first to observe the mysterious phenomenon using ultrasound scans, to discover that the ejaculate originates in a woman's bladder - and is made up mostly of urine.