Some women release fluid on orgasm.

For the past 50 years, this issue has been controversial.

The latest studies show that whether women release fluid on orgasm or not, it's normal.

Some women enjoy releasing fluid on orgasm. Others feel mortified that they’ve wet the bed. And some women who don’t release fluid worry that they’re abnormal. Some partners of squirters feel fine about it. Others fret. And some partners of non-squirting women wonder why they don’t. This issue may cause considerable anxiety. Those who feel stressed should feel comforted by recent studies. They show that whatever happens is normal.

Reports of women releasing fluid on orgasm date back 2,000 years. Western physicians largely ignored the phenomenon until the 1970s, when it became quite controversial.

Western sexologists first took this issue seriously in 1982, when eminent sex researchers coauthored a bestselling book, The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality. It argued that pressing on the vagina’s front wall (the G-spot) triggered release of up to a teaspoon of milky fluid, which they called “female ejaculation.” They said it originated in the tiny Skene’s glands that surround the opening of women’s urethras.

Scottish gynecologist Alexander Skene discovered the glands in 1880. He called them the female prostate and noted that they produce fluid, which he called analogous to prostate fluid. Doctors ignored him. A century later, Skene’s opinion was validated when fluid from his namesake glands was shown to contain prostate-specific antigen (PSA), which is produced only by prostate tissue.

After the book appeared, many women reported ejaculating. Some were into it. Others felt distressed about “peeing” at climax.

Then pioneering sex researchers William Masters, M.D., and Virginia Johnson weighed in, declaring that women did not release fluid on orgasm, that any fluid was simply copious vaginal self-lubrication. Their pronouncement........

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