FollowSo the story related to this study hit the media a couple of weeks ago. It was technically released on Dec 24th but I guess people were less interested in the controversies related to female ejaculation while they were busy sipping egg nog and being merry with kith and kin.
And here’s where I’m struggling with this paper (and by no means am I an expert in the female squirting/ejaculation) but the Journal of Sexual Medicine is a legit scientific journal. Sure, all sorts of legit scientific journals have been caught publishing shite research before. But if you believe in the system of peer review, then this research has supposedly been objectively reviewed by others with expertise in the field and it was found scientifically sound enough to warrant publishing.
But here’s where I fall off the “yup, that ejaculate is for sure just pee” bandwagon, if there was to be such a bandwagon one could jump on.
This research was based on seven (you know, 6 and add ONE other person) women who were referred to the study because they expel “massive amounts” of ejaculate. That alone makes me spidey – “hmmm, is this generalizable?” – senses tingle.
In an effort to quickly summarize the study, here’s what went down:
The 7 ejaculation experts enter the lab, urinate, do an ultrasound of their bladder (like the research scientists perform an ultrasound, they didn’t do it on themselves), they engage in stimulating behaviour either alone with hands, toys, or a partner (some manually stimulated, some had penile-vaginal intercourse with partner – this should also be setting off your spidey senses), stopped stimulation, had another ultrasound, went back to stimulation until ejaculation/squirting occurred (the ejaculate is collected in plastic bags), and then had another ultrasound.
The researchers measured the bladder volume at each ultrasound and collected the ejaculate and did testing on it – and found that it contained the chemicals that are in urine (urea, creatinine, uric acid) presumably at strong enough levels to warrant classifying the liquid as urine. Although the researchers did state that there was prostatic fluid in the ejaculate (but not at high enough qualities to account for the increase in volume of liquid).
“Our results lead us to conclude that squirting essentially is an involuntary emission of urine…”
So what to make of this? Well, I dunno.
It is novel research that is looking at a really interesting behaviour.
But at the same time, I am more than just a wee bit reticent to invalidate the reports of hundreds/thousands of women who have gone before this who have emphatically stated that ejaculate is not urine.
Someone replicate this study, please. And increase the sample size. Then we can all swallow women’s ejaculate and move on.
#needmoremoneyforresearch
