Female ejaculation and squirting as similar but completely different phenomena: A narrative review of current research.
Level 5 - mechanism / opinion, no new human data
Narrative review of historical and contemporary literature without systematic meta-analysis
PubMed 35388532 · doi:10.1002/ca.23879
What was done
Authors conducted a narrative review of studies indexed in Web of Knowledge (Web of Science Core Collection) and MEDLINE (Ovid) from 1946 to 2021 evaluating fluids expelled from the female urogenital tract during sexual arousal and orgasm.
What was found
The abstract presents volumetric definitions and physiological origins rather than quantitative study outcomes: squirting is characterized as a transurethral expulsion of approximately 10 mL or more of transparent, urine-like fluid from the urinary bladder, whereas female ejaculation consists of a few milliliters of thick secretion originating from the paraurethral glands with high concentrations of prostate-specific antigen. The review notes both phenomena have distinct mechanisms but can occur simultaneously.
Why it matters
This clarifies the physiological and anatomical distinction between two phenomena that were historically conflated under the single label of female ejaculation prior to 2011.
Limits
The abstract describes a narrative review without specified study selection criteria, formal quality assessment, or reported total sample sizes/study counts (n is not reported). No primary quantitative data or statistical comparisons are provided in the abstract.
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