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I am woman, hear me squirt!

“DEAR ANDREA: I am a woman, and I ejaculate…” So begins a letter to alt.sex.column in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Why would we be linking to it?

We womenfolk do, in fact, produce a substance similar to male ejaculate. It is Skene’s gland fluid, made in little glands along the urethra and pulsed out, on occasion, during arousal or orgasm.

The female half of the staff proudly bears the surname “Skene,” making all her glands, technically, Skene’s glands. The name is Scottish in origin. And shall now be forever associated, at least in our minds, with female ejaculate. Kinda makes up for the bagpipes. Maybe not.