The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips by Rebecca Chalker

friends explore their interest in dressing up, being sexy, and having fun with sex. Annie then discusses female ejaculation, demonstrating her own technique, which brings her to a five-minute orgasm that is not to be missed.
    I highly recommend these videos to anyone who wants see some super-ejaculators in action. Many women have told me that after seeing one or more of the videos, they finally understood how it all happens. My friend Eileen, who had never ejaculated, called me from California one day out of the blue.
    “I just had to tell you that I ejaculated!” she exclaimed. “How did it happen?” I asked.
    “My boyfriend and I were watching a video on female ejaculation, and we were fooling around for a couple of hours, and suddenly, it just happened. Boom! Ejaculation!”
    Was she more turned on than usual?
    “Yeah,” she said, “I think it was the idea that I could ejaculate that got me so turned on.”
    These videos are listed in Resources.

    WHY ARE PEOPLE OPPOSED TO FEMALE EJACULATION?
    While female ejaculation has been discussed for most of recorded history throughout a variety of cultures, it. remains a controversial
    issue. Although Whipple and Perry’s study of the content of women’s ejaculate has been widely criticized, there has yet to be a definitive study. The Spanish study mentioned earlier is a start, but it has not been published in a mainstream sexology journal. The videos that have been done also confirm that women can ejaculate, but sonic critics, including Beverly Whipple, believe that some of the women in these videos are only squirting diluted urine. 49
    Perhaps another reason for the slow acceptance of female ejaculation that superstar sexologists such as Kinsey, and Masters and Johnson, did not believe that some women ejaculate, in direct contradiction to their own observations. Kinsey and his colleagues denied that women ejaculated, although they observed that “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.” 50 Masters and Johnson likewise deny that female ejaculation occurs. “Despite a popular misconception, most women do not ejaculate during orgasm;’ they insist. Their proof? “The erroneous belief that women ejaculate probably stems from descriptions in erotic novels of fluid gushing from the vagina as a woman writhes and moans at the peak moment of sexual passion.” Yet they note that fourteen of the three hundred women in their own studies described a “gushing or expulsion of fluid at orgasm.” They also admit that “we have [emphasis in original] observed several cases of women who expelled a type of fluid that was not urine.” 51

    After an exhaustive quest to find a medical explanation for the copious ejaculations of a patient, Desmond Heath, an attending physician in psychiatry at New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital, came up dry. In desperation, he called the Masters and Johnson Institute, and reached the master himself. “Five minutes on the phone with Masters convinced me that the knowledge [of female ejaculation] had never been lost for it had never been known.” 52
    Many sexologists who are typically somewhat sympathetic to women’s issues refuse to accept the existence of female ejaculation, demanding more rigorous standards of proof. Likely they will sit comfortably in their disbelief, because there is zero scientific funding for studies on women’s sexuality, unless it is on sexual dysfunction, and it is rare that researchers can support such studies on their own. Until the time when funding becomes available, we will just have to take women’s word on ejaculation and await the science to confirm their testimonies.
    In an article in On Our Backs, the renowned feminist sexzine, Fanny Fatale suggests one reason for the lack of acceptance of this phenomenon: “Society cannot accept female ejaculation precisely because it makes men and women equal.”