Reply #5 wander's post
The paper was not published in New Scientist, but in Journal of Sexual Medicine. It is a peer reviewed journal with an impact factor of 3.15.
You can see the abstract here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12799/abstract. Full text is by subscription but I can send you the PDF if you like. Basically they use sonic sound imaging to visualise, in real time, the whole process of female squirting. They could see the urinary bladder filling up and then emptying during orgasm, thus proving beyond reasonable doubt that the liquid not only came from the urethra but actually from the bladder.
Chemical analysis done in the 1990s also showed than the female ejaculate was very similar in chemical composition from urine. What is new in this new study, and the reason it made news headlines, is that they showed that even when the women in the study have emptied their bladders prior to the imaging, their bladders quickly filled up when they orgasmed, enough for them to pee again. This suggests the urinary function of women can be altered by sexual stimulation. If true (but I personally doubt that very much), physiological textbooks will need to be revised. | |
