Thanks for dropping by, this is the second post of the Female Ejaculation series where I will be exploring squirting in the ancient Greco-Roman world.

In modern times, there has been considerable debate about the existence of female ejaculation. It was only in the last 10 or 20 years, that Western medical opinion grudgingly accepted the existence of female ejaculation. Before that, Western medicine believed there was no such thing. Doctors and medical professionals used to believe that women who expelled fluids from her urethra during orgasm were, in fact, experiencing urinary incontinence. Even the radical lesbian feminists, Sheila Jeffreys, colluded with the culture of denial by arguing female ejaculation was created for male sexual fantasies:

There are examples in the sexological literature of men’s sexual fantasies about lesbian sexuality. Krafft-Ebing invented a form of ejaculation for women.

With its unfortunate and lamentable state, female ejaculation was considered an embarrassing and shameful problem that required medical attention should anyone experience it.

Thanks to the research of Josephine Lowndes Sevely, JW Bennett and Beverly Whipple that appeared in 1978, we now know that female ejaculation is real and should not have been mistaken with urinary incontinence. During their research into urinary incontinence, they discovered that several ancient societies not only accepted female ejaculation but were exceedingly knowledgeable about it.  As Sevely pointed out in her book, Eve’s Secret, knowledge about female ejaculation was “not new knowledge, but a rediscovery of lost awareness that should contribute towards reshaping our view of female sexuality”.

While, the modern world had been in a long state of denial about the reality of female ejaculation, many ancient societies had no such issues. For Greco-Roman world, there was no debate about the existence of female ejaculation; they considered it an indisputable fact of life. Moreover, the scientific properties of female ejaculate were discussed by the greatest minds of the ancient world. Let’s explore about that for a while.

Hippocrates (460-370 BC), Aristotle (384-322 BC) and Galen (129-200 AD) explored the nature of female ejaculation.  They wrote and debated whether female ejaculate had any reproductive properties. There was a strong belief in the Greco-Roman world that the mixing of male semen and female ejaculate was necessary for the creation of new life. The Romans called these fluids liquor vitae, the essence of life itself.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, proposed the two seed theory believing that the female ejaculate must mix with the male ejaculate to create new life. Galen supported the two seed theory by making a distinction between reproductive and pleasurable female fluids, with the latter originating from a female prostrate. Galen describes the female ejaculate as:

The fluid in her prostate…..it is poured outside when it has done its service…This liquid not only stimulates…the sexual act but also is able to give pleasure and moisten the passageway as it escapes. It manifestly flows from women as they experience the greatest pleasure in coitus, when it is perceptibly shed upon the male pudendum; indeed, such an outflow seems to give a certain pleasure even to eunuchs.

Aristotle, on the other hand, rejected the two seed theory arguing that female ejaculation was only for the woman’s pleasure:

Some think that the female contributes semen in coition because the pleasure she experiences is sometimes similar to that of the male, and also is attended by a liquid discharge. But this discharge is not seminal…The amount of this discharge when it occurs, is sometimes on a different scale from the emission of semen and far exceeds it.  Moreover, different kinds of food cause a great difference in the quantity of such discharges.

Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen were the philosophical giants of the Greco-Roman world. Their writing forms the basis of Western thought and scientific knowledge. Many of their scientific findings are still valid today. While, these influential writers differed on the purpose of female ejaculation, they had no doubt about its existence.

In the next post in this series I will be exploring Amrita, the Nectar of the Goddess.