Squirting Is Peeing

Squirting Is Peeing
Medically Reviewed by Hansa D. Bhargava, MD on November 24, 2020
Squirting refers to fluid expelled from the vagina during orgasm. Not all people with vaginas squirt during orgasm, and those who do may only squirt some of the time. This type of orgasm includes a rapid ejection of urine from the bladder.
Squirting sometimes also involves secretions from the skene's gland. The skene's glands are sometimes called the female prostate because they function similarly to the male prostate.
A squirting orgasm is sometimes called female ejaculation. But this term excludes non-binary and trans people who are not female but have vaginas.
A recent study has shown that there is a difference between squirting, female ejaculation, and incontinence during sex. However, the term squirting is used to describe all three in everyday language.
All three of these phenomena involve fluid coming from the bladder during sex. Squirting is the expulsion of urine during an orgasm. Female ejaculation is a release of both urine and a substance from the skene's glands. Sexual incontinence — also called coital incontinence — is when someone loses control of their bladder during sex.
Ejaculation in people with vaginas may include a small release of a milky white liquid that does not gush out. Squirting, on the other hand, is usually a higher volume. It is possible to squirt and ejaculate at the same time.
Squirting is real. In fact, scientists have documented the phenomenon. However, more research is needed to determine the exact causes of squirting and female ejaculation.
Part of the ambiguity about squirting is that the skene's glands vary from person to person. Some people with vaginas don't have any, while others have very small ones.
Myth: Everyone Can Squirt If They Try the Same Method
Each person's experience with squirting is different. While some methods can make people squirt more than others, there is no one proven method that makes every person with a vagina squirt. This is because each vagina is different. As mentioned, some vaginas lack the skene's glands which are thought to create the fluid released during ejaculation in people who have vulvas.
Myth: Squirting Orgasms are Always High Volume
Squirting isn't always a high volume event that soaks the sheets. Sometimes it is a small trickle or a stream of fluid.
The depiction of squirting in porn movies often shows large gushes of squirting liquid. Porn producers fake some of these depictions for dramatic effect. All volumes and forms of squirting are valid. Squirting at different volumes is a normal occurrence during sex for many people.
Myth: Squirting or Ejaculation Only Happens During Orgasm
Some people can squirt or ejaculate before or after an orgasm. Squirting can also occur at the same time as an orgasm. Some people also have multiple spurts of squirting spread over a few minutes.
Explore squirting by yourself or with a partner to find out what works for you.
Some sex experts recommend stimulating the g-spot to achieve a squirting orgasm. Either by yourself or with a partner, take some time to find the g-spot with your fingers and/or sex toys. Pressure on the g-spot may make you feel the need to urinate.
Experiment with different methods of bringing yourself or your partner to a squirting orgasm with g-spot stimulation. Some ideas include:
For some people, putting too much pressure on the g-spot can feel uncomfortable. Listen to your body and do what feels good. If you are too tense it may be harder to orgasm or squirt.
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Shape: "Is Squirting Real? What to Know About Female Ejaculation."
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Other than reading about the occasional Kegel (and maybe trying one in an idle moment), many of us don’t spend much time thinking about our pelvic health, but we really should. You probably have questions you didn’t even realize you had. How common is pelvic pain? What’s the difference between “squirting” and just peeing a little? What can be done to rehab your pelvic floor after giving birth ?
Dr. Susie Gronski, physical therapist and certified pelvic rehabilitation practitioner, sat down with SheKnows to answers all your burning pelvic health questions (though please talk to your doctor if you’re feeling any burning sensations down there!).
Gronski isn’t an M.D. or gynecologist — she describes herself as a “physiotherapist for your privates,” training both women and men on how to be their own expert in treating whatever’s going on “down there.”
Susie Gronski: If you’ve got something more than muscle-based pain like smelly ejaculate, blood in your urine, weird lumps and bumps that just popped outta nowhere, fever or chills, go see an M.D. They’re the guys who do all the blood tests and scans to make sure nothing more serious is going on.
SG: First, the name is misleading — it isn’t [an] über amount, so it isn’t super-wet like we see in porn. Authentic female ejaculate is a mixture of diluted urine and prostate-like fluid. It is created by a tiny little gland next to your urethra… when fluid comes out of the vagina during intercourse.
SG: Other than checking the amount, you can do a smell test. If it smells like pee, it is pee. And a third option —that I don’t advise unless you check with you doc first — is to test with AZO urine strips.
SG: I have only had one woman ask about it virtually, but I believe that is because some people think that a large amount of fluid is normal. I think I would have more questions if people were more comfortable asking these types of questions.
SG: It is likely coital incontinence if it is a large amount. There are two kinds of coital incontinence: leaking during orgasm and leaking during penetration. When it happens during orgasm, it’s associated with overactive bladder. In other words, the bladder is contracting during orgasm, which leads to incontinence.
SG: If you have any pain in the butt, hip or abdomen, you need to need to check on the state of your pelvis. Other surprising signs include painful periods, frequent peeing and constipation.
SG: Common? Yes. Normal? No. And also, if you have persistent genital arousal syndrome.
Pelvic pain affects 1 in 7 women. Up to 20 percent of women experience pelvic pain at some point in their lives. You can treat this and other issues with pelvic floor therapy.
SG: In a nutshell, pelvic floor therapy helps with issues such as incontinence, constipation, pain with intercourse, pre- and postnatal care, post-surgical scarring and so much more.
SG: Dyspareunia, which is pain during/after intercourse; vulvar or labial pain; painful periods; abdominal pain; tailbone pain; pain with sitting; groin pain; frequent urinary tract infections; pain during bowel movements or constipation. Common yes, normal no. And also pain or difficulty with orgasm/persistent genital arousal disorder… PGAD.
SG: It’s pretty much hypersexuality without sexual intention (with or without orgasm). A lot of women who have it experience multiple unstimulated orgasms, and they’re painful.
SG: Lack of orgasm means the blood flow doesn’t get the chance to return, and if the blood flow does not return you are not getting rid of toxins.
SG: Yes! They release feel-good hormones, help with sleep, fight congestion, helps with memory and cognitive function, improves relationships and helps with confidence.
SG: We aren’t really sure yet. It’s still a developing area of research in the medical community. I’m hoping we get to learn more soon.
SG: Good question. In order to do the research, you have to have test subjects. And in order to have subjects, we have to have a sample of women who are comfortable discussing these topics.
We don’t know exact rates, but I am fairly certain it is underreported — culture and sometimes religious beliefs influence women’s perspective of speaking on these topics.
SG: A weak or overly tight pelvic floor. Many factors like birthing children, activities and menopausal stage.
SG: Not really. It’s more that your muscle integrity changes when your estrogen levels drop. The drop in estrogen causes thin, weak pelvic floor muscles. Thinner muscles mean less control. However, you are at a substantially higher risk for coital incontinence if you have incontinence with other daily activities such as running, sneezing or laughing.
SG: Exercise is the No. 1 way to treat a lot of these issues. Also, stress management helps a lot and hormone replacement therapy can be used for more urgent cases.
SG: As I said before, these things are common, but not normal. Vaginal deliveries stretch not just the vagina but the bladder and the urethra. Everything in your body has changed and it is important to rehab theses areas. You would go to rehab if you were in an accident that limited your mobility, so why not get rehab postpartum, you know?
Yes! Definitely! After gender-affirming surgery it is particularly important to learning how to reconnect with your areas.
You will have to rehabilitate have those muscles, and those of us in my profession have the ability to teach them how to relearn and be comfortable with their bodies. I believe it is important for health care providers to address the needs of all people. I am doing what I can to help that population as best as possible.
A version of this article was originally published in January 2017.
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You’re at brunch with your BFF (the one who overshares and you love her for it) when she mentions how her latest hookup made her orgasm so many GD times she had to strip her sheets at 3 a.m. because they were soaking wet.
“Uh, you mean you peed your bed?” you ask.
“No,” she explains, “squirting, as in gushing fluid during orgasm, is totally different from pee.”
And then you’re both whipping out your phones to prove each other wrong. But after scrolling through hundreds of articles, neither of you can find a definitive answer for whether or not squirting is urine or something else entirely.
Despite millennia of evidence that squirting is a very real thing that happens to some women and people with vaginas during sex (see the receipts, below), so much about it still remains a big fat question mark. Experts have yet to come to a consensus on how, when, or why squirting happens—and most importantly, whether or not it’s actual pee that comes out.

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For starters, let’s take a 2013 study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine that estimates around 10 to 54% of women ejaculate fluid during sex . Okay, so either half of all people with vaginas do it…or almost none. Yeah, not helpful. There are a handful of other small, conflicting studies about the phenomenon, but doctors say way more specific research is needed, which makes it tricky to scream, “It’s pee!” or “STFU, it’s not pee!” at brunch with any kind of conviction.
The thing is, though, the world really, really wants to understand it. Perhaps thanks to porn—in which vagina-owners are often seen shooting out streams of fluid during foreplay and intercourse—curiosity over this sexual feat has reached an all-time high. ( Searches for “squirting” on Pornhub more than doubled between 2011 and 2017, and women are 44% more likely to look for this stuff than men.) Basically, it’s the Loch Ness monster of our sexuality: The less evidence there is about it, the more we want to know.
Oz Harmanli, MD , chief of urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery at Yale Medicine, has reviewed much of the research on squirting. His personal conclusion? The liquid is urine that can be mixed with some sort of female ejaculate. But (eek) mostly urine.
Let him explain: Squirts often contain something called prostate-specific antigen , a protein found in semen, which suggests that women do have the ability to come sort of like guys do. Some experts say that protein comes from the skene’s glands , aka the female prostate, located on either side of the urethra. But, he adds, “there is no gland or reservoir in the female body, other than the bladder, that can produce the amount of fluid that is released with squirting.”
It’s the Loch Ness monster of our sexuality: The less evidence there is about it, the more we want to know.
So, in the argument with your bestie, yeah, you probably have the edge. (Thank you, Dr. Harmanli.) Squirt is most likely urine and secretions from the skene’s glands . But, contrary to popular belief, squirting doesn’t only signal a great time (and it doesn’t define good sex—you can still have a killer orgasm without squirting). It may also point to urinary incontinence, or more specifically, coital incontinence , aka the inability to control your bladder during penetration or orgasm.
While standard pee leaks are typically a thing older women might deal with, coital incontinence may affect 20 to 30% of women of all ages, says ob-gyn Heather Bartos, MD . And it can be tied to the status of your pelvic-floor muscles, adds ob-gyn Morgan West, DO . When those muscles are strong, you have max control—your bladder and urethra are on full lockdown mode, so nothing is coming out if and when you don’t want it to. But when they’re weak or, you know, relaxed at the tail end of an intense tantric sexathon, the muscles may not be able to withstand the power of your orgasm, setting up the perfect (rain)storm of squirt.
Nope. Unless you or your partner are totally squeamish, squirting—and what exactly this love juice contains—is really NBD. Yes, you may need to clean up afterward, but don’t let that kill your vibe. Most people find even just the idea of squirting incredibly hot. And honestly, if someone is making you nut so hard that you’re legit losing all control over your own body and its functions…who cares about a little mess? You’ve now got one hell of a brunch story.
Elaine Ayers, PhD, an assistant professor of museum studies at NYU, on the historical confusion around women’s orgasmic secretions.
5th century BCE: The ancient Greek Hippocratic treatise On Generation inaccurately claims that women’s “semen” is necessary for conception.
4th century CE: A Taoist text mentions a female genital fluid that comes out during orgasm, totally separate from natural vaginal lubrication.
1672: Dutch physician Reinier de Graaf is the first to describe the “female prostate.” He says its function is to “generate a pituito-serous juice that makes women more libidinous.” Right….
1905: Sigmund Freud links an “abnormal secretion of the mucous membrane of the vagina” to “hysteria”—an old term for female mental illness. It’s bullshit!

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