Editing Female ejaculation (section)

===Western literature===

====16th to 18th century====
In the 16th century, the Dutch physician [[Laevinius Lemnius]], referred to how a woman "draws forth the man's seed and casts her own with it".<ref>Lemnius, L. De occultis naturae miraculis 1557, Reprinted as The Secret Miracles of Nature. London 1658, p.19 cited in [https://books.google.com/books?id=6geM40gONl8C Laqueur T. Making Sex: The body and gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard, Cambridge 1990 vii]</ref> In the 17th century, [[François Mauriceau]] described glands at the [[female urethral meatus]] that "pour out great quantities of saline liquor during coition, which increases the heat and enjoyment of women".<ref>[[One sex two sex theory|Cited in Laqueur 1990 pp. 92–3]]</ref> This century saw an increasing understanding of female sexual anatomy and function,<ref name=blackledge>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/storyofv00cath |url-access=registration |last=Blackledge|first=Catherine|title=The Story of V: A Natural History of Female Sexuality|year=2004 |orig-year=2003 |isbn=978-0813534558 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |place=New Brunswick, N.J }}</ref> in particular the work of the [[Caspar Bartholin the Elder|Bartholin]] family in Denmark.

====De Graaf====
In the 17th century, the Dutch anatomist [[Reinier de Graaf]] wrote an influential treatise on the reproductive organs ''Concerning the Generative Organs of Women'' which is much cited in the literature on this topic. De Graaf discussed the original controversy but supported the [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]] view.<ref name="graaf">{{cite journal | author = Regnier De Graaf | title = New Treatise Concerning the Generative Organs of Women. Reprinted as: Jocelyn HD, Setchell BP: Regnier de Graaf on the human reproductive organs. An annotated translation of Tractatus de Virorum Organis Generationi Inservientibus (1668) and De Mulierum Organis Generationi Inserventibus Tractatus Novus (1962) | journal = J Reprod Fertil Suppl |date=December 1972 | volume = 17 | pages = 1–222 |pmid=4567037 | last2 = Setchell | first2 = BP}}</ref><ref>Cited in Chalker 2000, p.121</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Korda |first1=Joanna B. |last2=Goldstein |first2=Sue W. |last3=Sommer |first3=Frank |title=SEXUAL MEDICINE HISTORY: The History of Female Ejaculation |journal=[[The Journal of Sexual Medicine]] |date=2010 |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=1965–1975 |doi=10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01720.x|pmid=20233286 }}</ref> He identified the source as the glandular structures and ducts surrounding the urethra.

{{blockquote|[VI:66-7] The urethra is lined 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... The substance could be called quite aptly the female 'prostatae' or 'corpus glandulosum', 'glandulous body'''...''The function of the 'prostatae' is to generate a pituito-serous juice which makes women more libidinous with its pungency and saltiness and lubricates their sexual parts in agreeable fashion during coitus.

[VII:81] The discharge from the female 'prostatae' causes as much pleasure as does that from the male 'prostatae'}}

He identified [XIII:212] the various controversies regarding the ejaculate and its origin, but stated he believed that this fluid "which rushes out with such impetus during venereal combat or libidinous imagining" was derived from a number of sources, including the vagina, urinary tract, cervix and uterus. He appears to identify [[Skene's ducts]], when he writes [XIII: 213] "those [ducts] which are visible around the orifice of the neck of the vagina and the outlet of the urinary passage receive their fluid from the female 'parastatae', or rather the thick membranous body around the urinary passage." However he appears not to distinguish between the lubrication of the perineum during arousal and an orgasmic ejaculate when he refers to liquid "which in libidinous women often rushes out at the mere sight of a handsome man." Further on [XIII:214] he refers to "liquid as usually comes from the [[pudenda]] in one gush." However, his prime purpose was to distinguish between generative fluid and pleasurable fluid, in his stand on the Aristotelian semen controversy.