Yes, it comes from the urethra.
I dated a gal who would ejaculate COPIOUS amounts of this fluid, to the extent that we’d put thick bath towels in the appropriate spots before sex, and four or five of them would be completely soaked by the time we were done. I can corroborate what others have said: It’s not urine, and it has very little taste or smell.
It was a major turn-on for me. YMMV.
I am not even slightly kidding when I say I have done a ton of primary source research on this topic since my original post on 10/31/11.
Life is good, but I am wondering if a full beard is a good idea.
As to the topic of what public opinion holds squirting to be, I’m beginning to believe that since porn includes girls that are obviously peeing for distance, as pkbites notes in post #38, the common definition of squirting includes urination.
Anyone find my conclusion off base?
Nah… IMHO you’re spot on, Mr. Slant. 
And I concur with pkbites.
In my experiences its always been either a single big ‘gush’ or one or two smaller ‘gushes’.
I do.
You’re going by what porn is describing its videos as? If you ask any woman if she’s into giving golden showers, she’s going to think of urination and not the act of ejaculating fluid via Skene’s gland.
If you ask a woman if she’s a squirter, she’s not going to immediately think of urinating.
Squirting is very much separate from urination, despite what porn videos have lead you to believe. They are looking to draw in an audience, if calling a video “squirt queen” gets a larger audience than “urination queen” they’ll go with the former and try to dress it up as squirting and not urinating.
I have one data point from which to reference. One evening my husband was taking a shower prior to our doing the deed, as he’d been outside doing sweaty work. As I tend to take a looooong time to warm up to an orgasm, I got out my trusty “Celebrator” (seriously, if you are looking for a vibrator, it’s an excellent one–they sell them on Amazon) and got a head start in bed while he was in the shower. I had two orgasms ridiculously fast and close together due to the enhancement of the technology involved, and the second time there was a noticeable squirt! Shocked the hell out of me! It wasn’t high volume–maybe 2 tablespoons–and it didn’t seem to smell like urine or anything. But it was quite a shock and it came just at the moment of orgasm from purely clitoral stimulation. I had to half-ashamedly explain the small wet spot in the bed when my husband came in from his shower, but he seemed cool and even interested in the phenomenon.
I have no idea if it was partially pee or not, but I can tell you that I could NOT have held it in. First, there was no warning ahead of time in which to contract muscles. Second, it was a totally new experience that I had no idea I even needed to watch out for.
The next day the sheets had dried and there was no discoloration or odor. Take that as what you will.
Hasn’t happened since.
I am a squirter and I have seen, felt, smelled, and tasted (on accident!) the fluid produced. Not urine at all. As far as squirt vs. gush, I am capable of producing large volumes at fairly high pressure that can go quite a distance.
So now I’m curious as to whether gushers get really thirsty afterwards.
I recall that one researcher had test subjects void their bladders, catheterized them, then they masturbated to squirting orgasm (which I’d imagine was a bit tricky freshly catheterized) collecting the liquid. It was not urine, but more closely related to semen without sperm.
Again, this is from memory, and I don’t even play a doctor on tv.
Finally some light towards this discussion from a source with actual and personal experience. 
You Haiku is broken.
Indeed it is.
Uff…
TMI
Can anyone please direct me to cites for “squirting” that are , say, 10 years old or older?
It seems to me that we went through thousands of years of human sexual experience where “squirting” was unheard of, or heard of as anecdotal, exceptionally infrequent, and ascribed as urine.
Overnight, it would seem, women of all stripes are squirting all over the place. Keep in mind, this isn’t supposed to be some intentional act as part of normal healthy sex, but an involuntary reaction to orgasm. IOW, it is the direct and exact equivalent to male ejaculation; it is the female ejaculation.
Methinks that a whole lot of people have been deluded into thinking that this is how females experience orgasm, and that this is simply female ejaculation, when in fact its simply urine.
Some may be faking, but not all. Look up 80’s porn star Fallon (on Wiki for a safe site; for NSFW Fallon video you’re on your own)
I haven’t looked online, but I do seem to recall that this volume of quite explicit literary porn from 1879 mentions female ejaculate more than once. My folks owned a copy and most interesting it was when I was a barely pubescent lad.
I’m not saying anyone is faking. (although I’ll bet most are) Im sure many are sincere. But this notion of “squirting” is of extremely recent vintage.
That’s not to say that we can’t scrounge up someone—whether an old porn actress----or someone else who “squirted” somewhere along the line.
But relative to the amount of squirting going on now, it was unheard of. (and to the infinitesimal extent it was heard of, it was not considered “female ejaculation.”)
I simply cannot believe that we got this far and squirting wasn’t simply in our lexicon--------it was unheard among locker room chatter, “girl talk”, subversive literature, erotica literature, medical journals dealing with human sexuality, teenage bravado-----anything.
All of a sudden we’ve found out that women produce copious amounts of fluids involuntarily during orgasm.
Whodathunkit? :dubious:
I don’t doubt that women produce fluids as a result of sexual behavior/ arousal/ orgasm. I’ve done some studies in the field. 
Squirting across the room quite literally like from a garden hose is another matter altogether.
I highly doubt that book deals with that.
***And even if it did, *** it is a rarity, a one off. Now, it would it seem, every other woman under the age of 27 is ejaculating across the room.
Color me highly dubious.
I don’t know what was happening pre-early 80’s in pornography, but Fallon was very popular precisely because of this, as were other actresses who possessed the same talent. At that time it was popular because it was seen as evidence that women weren’t faking orgasm for the camera. (I grew up in a neighborhood of older boys, who didn’t bother censoring conversations.) Unfortunately for a couple girls in my high school, word got around quickly that they had the same habit, and were sought after by boys, and much embarrassed by the attention they received. One of those humiliated girls was a close friend, and since I worked in a video store, I had easy access to pornography depicting this and I was able to demonstrate to her that squirting may not have been typical, but was perfectly normal. Those videos were constantly checked out, and there were long wait lists. Without a doubt the most popular theme.
If women are somehow being convinced they are abnormal if they are unable to squirt during an orgasm, that is just a sad new way that trends in pornography can have a negative effect on the self-esteem of women. From what I have seen, some appears legit, but some produce such copious liquid I can’t imagine what anatomy allows for Skene’s glands of that size. Each time this question comes up I wonder why anyone asks. Is a partner concerned he or she is being urinated on? Or feel that women have found a new way of faking orgasm? Are confused about whether or not they are feeling really good? If both partners enjoy it, does it matter what is in it? Or rather, I’ll just ask. What prompts this question? Why not just invest in a couple towels and take it at face value?
(Of the across the room stuff: yeah, not sure what’s happening there. I’d be just as impressed if a woman could pee at such velocity and distance. But Cytheria (sp?) seems legit. Her eyes roll back, she nearly passes out…she appears to be enjoying herself immensely.)
I’m not that interested to begin with, and I doubt either wants this to end up as a debate.
But I just don’t buy it.
Whether it’s Fallon, or my wife’s third cousin’s boyfriend’s sister (on her mother’s side), who reportedly was a squirter, they’re all exceptions; and rare at that.
If this was a normal part of the human sexual experience it would have been ubiquitous like most other sexual activities.
But is isn’t. So we’re digging up obscure 70’s porn stars. For what?
In the millions of bedrooms, inhabited by billions of people before and after Fallon, squirting is almost completely unheard of.
But in the last couple years (and 3 decades after the sexual revolution, mind you), millions of people have discovered that they squirt when they orgasm, and up until that point a miniscule amount of people experienced that or knew about it.
You can see why I’m :dubious:³ right?
People talk about squirting more now than they used to because there’s more squirting porn available now than there used to be. And there’s more squirting porn available now than there used to be because there’s more of all kinds of porn available now than there used to be.