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For anyone who's never experienced squirting or seen a partner do it, it can be easy to assume it's all just a myth perpetuated by ####. But squirting is definitely real, and it may even be somewhat common.

We dug into the research and spoke with Zhana Vrangalova, Ph.D., a professor of sexuality at New York University and sex researcher who has been extensively studying squirting, and Good Vibrations sexologist Carol Queen, Ph.D., to understand what squirt is exactly.
Is squirting real?
Yes, squirting is real. Researchers have actually brought women into clinics and gotten them to squirt right in front of them. A 1984 study found 54% of women have experienced an "orgasmic expulsion of fluid" at least once in their life and 14% experience it almost every time they ######. A 2017 cross-sectional study found 69% of women between ages 18 and 39 had experienced ########### during ######.

"It definitely is not a myth. It exists. It's real," Vrangalova confirms. "However, exactly what it is and where it comes from is still a bit of a mystery."
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What is squirting?
Squirting is a colloquial term used to describe when a person with a vulva releases a specific type of fluid from the urethra or vulva area in response to sexual stimulation. The liquid released during squirting is usually as clear as water, colorless and odorless, and it sometimes comes out gushing in relatively large quantities. There is no consensus among sexual health professionals as to what squirt is, though research has found it can contain some of the same components as urine and some of the same components as #####.

Squirting can feel pleasurable and sometimes coincides with an ######, though not always. The vast majority of ###### owners are likely capable of squirting with the right kind of stimulation and timing, according to Vrangalova, though there's a lack of sufficient research to definitively prove it.

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Experts disagree on whether squirting is pee. Some components of urine have been found in squirt, including urea, creatinine, and uric acid concentrations, though it's also been found to contain PSAs and other chemicals found in #####, likely from the Skene's glands. Some biochemical analyses have found it to be a unique substance different from urine despite some similarities.

The clear liquid produced during some instances of squirting (the more "gushing" type) does likely come from the bladder or at least passes through it. A small 2015 study had seven women pee before sex and then scanned their bladders right before and right after squirting. The women's bladders had filled before squirting and then were empty right after squirting. Those researchers concluded that squirting is likely the "involuntary emission of urine during sexual activity." That said, the study also found five out of the seven women had PSAs in their squirt.

That 2015 study has been heavily critiqued by some sexuality professionals and people who themselves squirt. Squirters have described the smell and taste of their squirt as being distinct from that of urine. Sex blogger Kayla Lords says it smells "tangy and sharp but nothing like urine" and doesn't stain her white sheets.

Vrangalova puts it this way: "It is this relatively clear, relatively odorless liquid that comes through the bladder and out the urethral opening, which depending on when the person went and peed most recently and how hydrated they are and all of those things, may or may not contain more or less traces of urine."

In other words, it's possible that squirt is its own fluid, though urine is sometimes also released during squirting depending on factors such as whether the person pees before sex. Queen conjectures that up to about a shot glass worth of one kind of fluid might come from the "female prostate," and anything more is likely urine from the bladder. But squirting itself is not pee. "Squirting can involve emitting pee, and the more a person squirts, the more likely pee is to be involved," she says. "The greater the volume of ejaculate, the more likely there will be urine in the composition—possibly a lot of urine."

Some experts say squirt might be thought of as "diluted urine." Notably, though, urine is already 91 to 96% water.
Why women squirt.
Squirting happens as a result of sexual stimulation. Women have reported squirting because of vaginal stimulation (often around the so-called G-spot area), clitoral stimulation, and even #### stimulation, Vrangalova says. Most people who squirt report that squirting makes sex better, but some women report feelings of shame or humiliation around their squirting experiences.

It's not clear if squirting has any biological function other than producing pleasure, but Queen says women likely ejaculate for the same reason men do.

"We develop in utero, regardless of the sex/gender we'll be assigned at birth, from the exact same kind of early gestation body. This body is influenced by hormones (as well as underlying genetics), but before the hormones hit and differentiate clitorises and penises, labia and scrotum, and all the rest, we start out undifferentiated," she explains. "The tissue that comprises us at that stage doesn't go away—but it may get repurposed."

So just like the clitoris and the ##### are actually the same body part that gets arranged in two different ways, women also have their own homologue to the male prostate. The Skene's glands, or the "female prostate," are located around the urethra and likely secrete an ejaculatory fluid in response to sexual stimulation, the same way men's prostates (also located around the urethra) produce fluid to help ejaculate #####.

In other words, "male" and "female" ########### may be similar sexual responses—kind of like how people with penises still have ####### they developed in utero, even though those ####### don't end up being reproductively relevant.

Some doctors do theorize that squirting is a form of stress incontinence, aka a response to excessive pressure on the bladder, though Queen notes, "If it was really a medical problem, they would also emit liquid when laughing, jumping, coughing, etc." One study found women who ejaculate during ###### tend to have stronger pelvic floor muscles than non-ejaculators.

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