# Women and "squirting", what's the straight dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391 "2017-05-25T01:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/21 "2017-05-26T12:38:38Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > The original study link was provided by **Leo Bloom** in a 2015 thread. > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18086575&postcount=129](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18086575&postcount=129) > > [Soylent Green]Squirting is URINE![/Soylent Green] Thank you for the secondary cite. Menschlich. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/22 "2017-05-26T14:37:14Z")
It seems like only in 21st century porn could women’s loss of bladder control at orgasm be turned into an arousing thing. Is there any record of this phenomenon before, say, 1995? Or did women getting banged while wearing spike heels just lose its kick? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/23 "2017-05-26T14:52:23Z")
> [@Elemenopy](#): > > So, is it pee? Not exactly. But you don’t dispute that it is an ultrafiltrate of blood that has passed through the kidneys, collected in the bladder, and exited through the urethra? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/24 "2017-05-26T15:17:12Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > It seems like only in 21st century porn could women’s loss of bladder control at orgasm be turned into an arousing thing. > > Is there any record of this phenomenon before, say, 1995? Or did women getting banged while wearing spike heels just lose its kick? The logic of your second question following the first seems to be faulty. Excluded middle? (Is _that_ a double entendre?) I get your point. Just wondering because this is a memorable faulty syllogism. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/25 "2017-05-26T15:45:40Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > The logic of your second question following the first seems to be faulty. Excluded middle? (Is _that_ a double entendre?) > > I get your point. Just wondering because this is a memorable faulty syllogism. I was a bit brief, maybe, but anyone with more than a few years’ experience with the… history of porn should get what I meant. Porn is something I glance at a bit, at intervals of years. I don’t “need” it on any level, but sometimes I wander down that dark road for a few days. My sampling, over around 40 years, has shown several clear progressions. I have never understood why women lose every article of clothing except their 6-inch stiletto heels - and if they do come off, they remain somewhere in view. I don’t really understand the trend towards absolute hairlessness (on both men and women) of the last decade or so. I have actually seen/heard 20-somethings get queasy at the sight/notion of a little muffin top. I don’t really get why every cumshot has to be external. I guess if you don’t see it, it didn’t happen, despite all following evidence. And for what little I’ve seen “squirting,” it’s one more of those things that seems to be invented by the porn industry, feeding highly distorted information to its audience about how sexuality (both physical and psychological) actually works. Of COURSE really hot women shoot just like men. Right. But only when they’re wearing spike heels, have removed every hair from their ears down and have a huge shot of cum across their stomach. Natch. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/26 "2017-05-26T17:33:48Z")
> [@Dickerman](#): > > [What's the latest dope on female "squirting?" - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=612297) > [NSFW Question: Squirting - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=629767) > [What’s in female ejaculate? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2420/whats-in-female-ejaculate) > [Can women really squirt when they reach their orgasm? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=521133) > [High-Speed Female Ejaculation - Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=244532) > [The "squirting" debate - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=747907) > [Female Ejactulation-Truth or Myth? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=69185) Classic Username/Post combo! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/27 "2017-05-26T18:42:46Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Here’s a nice study of 7 women who reported they regularly experienced recurrent and massive fluid emission during sexual stimulation: [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12799/full](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12799/full) > > Their conclusion, after rigorous study involving ultrasonographic bladder monitoring and biochemical analyses indicate that **squirting is essentially the involuntary emission of urine during sexual activity, although a marginal contribution of prostatic secretions to the emitted fluid often exists**. > > Frankly, I think that pretty well settles the question. > > Yes, yes, the study only had 7 women in it, but all 7 of them clearly were passing urine during their sexual fluid emission experiences, and frankly there’s no other place besides the bladder where such a large volume of fluid is going to be coming from. I’m sure their sexual partners which it were otherwise. But sadly, squirting is primarily urine with perhaps, other secretions. Your sofa cushions will never be quite as fresh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/28 "2017-05-26T18:51:08Z")
> [@Dickerman](#): > > It seems like a very simple experiment would clear this up (at least the urine question), given a urethral catheter, someone to place it, and a willing and capable subject. I don’t have a wide range of experience, but what little I have shows that “squirting” is _definitely_ pee, unless other women are squirting something completely different in a way that looks exactly the same, in the same circumstances, as the “squirters” I’ve been with. I don’t think advanced research or medical science is needed here, just experience and a little common sense. > [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > It seems like only in 21st century porn could women’s loss of bladder control at orgasm be turned into an arousing thing. > > Is there any record of this phenomenon before, say, 1995? Or did women getting banged while wearing spike heels just lose its kick? Not an answer, but you reminded me of when I was first learning how to masturbate (coincidentally, around 1994 when I was 11-12, so before your cutoff date). I was confused and thought that maybe it was the “stuff coming out of my penis” that felt good, and if I could somehow have an orgasm _and_ pee at the same time, it would feel even better! Anyway, try as I might, that never happened. But women have two different holes down there, so maybe they had the same idea as 12 year old me, but succeeded? > [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I don’t really understand the trend towards absolute hairlessness (on both men and women) of the last decade or so. I have actually seen/heard 20-somethings get queasy at the sight/notion of a little muffin top. I’m pretty sure “muffin top” = “love handles” _not_ “the top of a muff”. FYI. Unless I’m way out of date and the same slang phrase has taken on new meaning recently. ---
**Author:** ![RedAntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@RedAntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedAntz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/29 "2017-05-27T02:39:17Z")
Female ejaculation, please! No it is not urine. I’m a woman and a lesbian and as such I have multiple orgasms every time I’ve had sex just like every other lesbian. It is not urine; it has no color and no smell and does not stain white sheets like urine does. It is not thick like the ejaculate that men produce and men don’t really need to worry about it anyway because it’s highly unlikely that you’ll ever produce the event in a woman during your lifetime. Before anyone comes unglued, I don’t mean this as an attack against anyone’s ability to please, it’s just that straight women don’t have sex with men fully expecting to have an orgasm and men don’t know enough about their woman’s body to detect a fake from the real thing. What you may have seen is most likely from porn videos. If you want to know whether a woman is actually having an orgasm, put a couple of fingers inside her vagina and it will feel as if they’re going to be broken from the muscle spasms. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/30 "2017-05-27T02:57:08Z")
Now, I’m no lesbian, but I’m nonetheless quite confident that it’s possible for a lesbian to have sex without orgasm, and also quite confident that it’s possible for a woman to have an orgasm from sex with a man. I make no comment on the relative frequency of either, but both are surely possible. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/31 "2017-05-27T03:19:55Z")
I’m by no means any expert. Still, re: women squirting… [spoiler] I think there is a double spoiler rule… [spoiler] …and you’d better not be watching this at work… [The Link](https://youtu.be/rHLwgEesLcY?t=9) …wtf! Why aren’t you workin’ man…? [/spoiler] [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/32 "2017-05-27T13:48:59Z")
I have no idea why you felt the need to two-click spoiler a video of people playing with water guns while running around on inflatables. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/33 "2017-05-27T17:00:53Z")
I was with a woman once that would squirt quite a bit during every orgasm which seemed to happen about every 20 seconds. If it was just urine from the bladder, She definitely would have ran out during those 10-30 minute excursions since it always took me forever to get off cause it was basically like every squirt was like a huge shot of lube making it so slick that there was no friction, so couldn’t hardly feel a thing till it would dry up a little then she’d squirt again. That was actually the reason I broke up with her. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/34 "2017-05-27T17:41:09Z")
> [@HeXen](#): > > I was with a woman once that would squirt quite a bit during every orgasm which seemed to happen about every 20 seconds. If it was just urine from the bladder, She definitely would have ran out during those 10-30 minute excursions since it always took me forever to get off cause it was basically like every squirt was like a huge shot of lube making it so slick that there was no friction, so couldn’t hardly feel a thing till it would dry up a little then she’d squirt again. > > That was actually the reason I broke up with her. Quite a relationship. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/35 "2017-05-27T23:40:01Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Quite a relationship. Sexual incompatibilities probably kills most every relationship I’d imagine. There’s some things sexually you don’t mind and others that is just nope. Squirting for me is a nope as I found it to be more of a chore than fun. And a huge wet spot isn’t fun either. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/36 "2017-05-28T00:05:29Z")
I’m a woman who has had sex with both men and women. I have faked it with both men and women, and I have had genuine orgasms with both men and women. FTR. I’ve never squirted. I’ve never been with a woman who squirted, although I was with one who was in search of the cosmic orgasm, and was convinced if she could manage to squirt, she’d have better orgasms, and would somehow be a better lesbian. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391/37 "2017-05-28T00:11:34Z")
Since the OP is long answered and we’ve drifted from General Question answers, this is closed. **samclem** , moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-squirting-whats-the-straight-dope/787391.md?page=1)