History Of The G-Spot

Throughout history there have been numerous reports of the expulsion of fluids from the vagina by women during sexual arousal and/or orgasm.   There are historical accounts of scientific figures such as Aristotle that discus and identify vaginal expulsions which did not have the appearance or smell of urine, and did not stain.  The first modern description of both female genitalia and the matter of vaginal expulsions came from the 17th century Dutch physician, Reinier De Graaf, who in 1672 stated:

“The urethra is lined internally by a thin membrane. In the lower part, near the outlet of the urinary passage, this membrane is pierced by large ducts, or lacunae, through which pituito-serous matter occasionally discharges in considerable quantities. Between this very thin membrane and the fleshy fibres we have just described there is, along the whole duct of the urethra, a whitish, membranous substance about one finger-breadth thick which completely surrounds the urethral canal. This substance could be called the “female prostatae”.

For almost 200 years De Graaf’s description of the female prostate in women in reference to the glands surrounding the female urethra represented conventional medical thought.  In 1944 Ernst Gräfenberg, a German obstetrician, first associated the stimulation of a certain spot with the vagina with the expulsion of fluid from the urethra during sexual arousal. This area of the vagina came to be known as the “G-spot” so named after Gräfenberg. After many years of research, in 1950 he disclosed his conclusions in his article “The Role of the urethra in Female Orgasm”:

“If there is the opportunity to observe the orgasm of such women, one can see that large quantities of a clear, transparent fluid are expelled not from the vulva, but out of the urethra in gushes. At first, I thought that the bladder sphincter had become defective by the intensity of the orgasm, since involuntary expulsion of urine is reported in sex literature. But in the cases observed by us, the fluid was examined and it had no urinary character. I am inclined to believe that ‘urine’ reported to be expelled during female orgasm is not urine, but secretions of the intraurethral glands correlated with the erotogenic zone along the urethra in the anterior vaginal wall. Moreover, the profuse secretions coming out with the orgasm have no lubricating significance; otherwise they would be produced at the beginning of intercourse and not at the peak of orgasm.”

So in a nutshell, we can basically understand that:

  • Female ejaculation is triggered from the paraurethral glands and is usually clear and odorless.
  • Female ejaculation is the direct result of a G-spot orgasm.
  • Female ejaculation is a natural process, disparate from urination and quite similar to male ejaculation.
  • Female ejaculation is believed to be caused by a release of fluid from the Skene’s glands.