- Squirting, when someone expels thin and clear liquid in response to pleasure, has long baffled sex experts.
- Not everyone can squirt, and there are debates over why it happens and what the liquid is made of.
Squirting, a sexual phenomenon where someone expels liquid from their genitals during pleasure, has long perplexed sexual health experts and researchers.
Unlike vaginal lubrication, where a person's vagina secretes a white and milky fluid when they're aroused, $4. Squirting can happen before, during, or after an orgasm.
Since squirting is considered taboo in American culture and typically requires sexual stimulation, it's hard to study and difficult to make broad conclusions about, $4, a Kinsey Institute sex researcher and "Sex & Psychology" podcast host, told Insider.
Due to limited research, it's difficult to estimate how many people can actually squirt. In a $4 OB-GYN Dr. Zlatko Pastor wrote that an $4 of women have reported such abilities.
According to Lehmiller, small studies and anecdotal reports from people who can squirt offer some clues about the phenomenon.
Research on squirting is sparse and inconclusive
Squirting is related to $4, which is embedded in the vaginal walls along the sides of the urethra. These glands, called $4, are $4.
Researchers have $4 whether squirting liquid contains pee, or if it's a unique substance. In studies where researchers performed a $4, they found chemicals that are also in urine.
Other studies have found prostate‐specific antigen, or PSA, in squirting fluid. $4, which has led some researchers to refer to squirting as "female ejaculation."
But according to Lehmiller, there's increasing evidence squirting and female ejaculation are $4 While squirting involves the bladder, female ejaculation does not, an April 2022 review in the journal $4 suggests.
Some researchers believe people may $4 creating a mixture of fluids. The amount of urine depends on when the person peed last and how hydrated they are, according to New York University sex researcher $4.
Some sex educators and enthusiasts say squirting is a teachable skill
It's also unclear whether squirting is something a person can learn, or if it's a special-yet-inexplicable talent, Lehmiller said.
Some sex educators and squirting enthusiasts say they $4, though there's no data to back up these reports. Men have also reported $4 how to $4.
"My best educated guess as a psychologist and a scientist, someone who's been looking through this data, is that probably the vast majority of vagina owners can be made to expel that type of ejaculate, the one that comes through the urethra, provided the right kind of pressure, the right time physiologically," Vrangalova $4.
Perhaps questioning the mechanics behind squirting is a wasted effort, OBGYN Dr. Jen Gunter $4.
"A good sexual encounter is not about optics that make a man (it's usually a man in this scenario) feel as if he has achieved something. A good sexual encounter is about pleasure," Gunter said. "As long as you are having an orgasm or two, who cares about anything else?"