Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot (6 page)

However this paper made little impact, and was dismissed in the major sexological writings of that time, such as
Kinsey
(1953)
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and
Masters and Johnson
(1966),
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equating this "erroneous belief" with
urinary stress incontinence
. Although clearly Kinsey was familiar with the phenomenon, commenting that (p. 612);

Muscular contractions of the vagina following orgasm may squeeze out some of the genital secretions, and in a few cases eject them with some force

as were Masters and Johnson ten years later, who observed (pp 79–80):

Most women do not ejaculate during orgasm...we
have
observed several cases of women who expelled a type of fluid that was not urine

(emphasis in original) yet dismissed it (p. 135) - "female ejaculation is an erroneous but widespread concept", and even twenty years later in 1982,
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they repeated the statement that it was erroneous (p. 69-70) and the result of "urinary stress incontinence".

Late 20th century awareness

The topic did not receive serious attention again until a review by Josephine Lowndes Sevely and JW Bennett appeared in 1978.
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This latter paper, which traces the history of the controversies to that point, and a series of three papers in 1981 by
Beverly Whipple
and colleagues in the
Journal of Sex Research
,
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became the focal point of the current debate. Whipple became aware of the phenomenon when studying urinary incontinence, with which it is often confused.
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As Sevely and Bennett point out, this is "not new knowledge, but a rediscovery of lost awareness that should contribute towards reshaping our view of female sexuality". Nevertheless, the theory advanced by these authors was immediately dismissed by many other authors, such as physiologist Joseph Bohlen,
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for not being based on rigorous scientific procedures, and psychiatrist
Helen Singer Kaplan
(1983) stated;
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Female ejaculation (as distinct from female urination during orgasm) has never been scientifically substantiated and is highly questionable, to say the least.

Even some radical feminist writers, such as
Sheila Jeffreys
(1985) were dismissive, claiming it as a figment of male fantasy;
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There are examples in the sexological literature of men's sexual fantasies about lesbian sexuality. Krafft-Ebing invented a form of ejaculation for women

It required the detailed anatomical work of Helen O'Connell
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from 1998 onwards to more properly elucidate the relationships between the different anatomical structures involved. As she observes, the perineal urethra is embedded in the anterior vaginal wall and is surrounded by erectile tissue in all directions except posteriorly where it relates to the vaginal wall. "The distal vagina, clitoris, and urethra form an integrated entity covered superficially by the vulval skin and its epithelial features. These parts have a shared vasculature and nerve supply and during sexual stimulation respond as a unit".
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Anthropological accounts