Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 25 Aug 1992 17:33:29 MST
From: <AGRPA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject:    Female Ejaculation

                              Female Ejaculation...
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[From the _LN_ (Lesbian News, Los Angeles' Lesbian monthly) pp. 59-60]

     San Francisco Video Producer Champions Female Ejaculation
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They claim it's the ultimate orgasmic experience and that not "doing it" can
even be unhealthy. That's why Debi Sundahl and her gang at Fatale Video in
San Francisco, have produced a new instructional video tape, "How to Female
Ejaculate."

"Sexual knowledge is power," says Sundahl, aka Fanny Fatale, the video's
host. Who could argue with a woman who's willing to show us the inside of
her vagina to prove the point?

Sundahl contends that every woman can ejaculate and she shows you how--
graphiclly.

While Fanny Fatale begins by explaining the phenomenon clinically,
using  professional diagrams and illustrations, the hard sell comes
at the end when  Fanny and three of her friends literally spurt like
burst water balloons.  Fatale proposes that during sexual
excitement, an area surrounding the  urethra, called the urethral
sponge, fills up with fluid. Then either during  orgasm, or with a
little push from some fingers, muscles or object of choice, a  clear
liquid squirts out of the urethra.

In the video, the ejaculant looks like urine, but Fatale and the
video's other  demonstrators swear it's not.

"I had my nose in it for a year, just to make sure it wasn't, but
never once  did it smell like urine," Fatale says.

"I just like to lap it up," says Carol, one of the ejaculators. "It
tastes like a  cross between sea salt and buttery buttered popcorn
to me."

But Dr. Pam Kushner, a family physician from Long Beach, who viewed
the  tape at the LN's request, said it looked like urine to her and
her assistant.  And although she had never heard of women
ejaculating before, it seems  plausible.

"I'd like to take it (the liquid) to a lab and have it analyzed,"
she says.  "Otherwise it's impossible to know for sure."

Kushner's physician's assistant, Susie Elftman, says it's possible
the glands  that produce secretions and lubricants could hold off
until the end of the  orgasm and then all release at once.

"If it was urine,it wouldn't taste like butter," Riftman says. Urine
is more  acidic-tasting. But we'd have to dig up Mahatma Gandhi, who
actually drank  his urine, and ask him."

In the video, Fatale insists that medical studies have shown that
the liquid is  not urine. Most of her research is taken from the
Federation of Feminist  Women's Health Centers' "A New View of a
Woman's Body," which was  edited by Suzann Gage.

That book and another, "Lesbian Sex," by JoAnn Loulan, corroborate
the  existence of female ejaculation and contend that the fluid is
"chemically  different from urine."

Gage, a registered nurse who runs the Lesbian Health Project in West
Hollywood, has not actually seen the Fatale video, but says, "I
support  anything that enables women to learn more about themselves
and their  bodies."

Which, according to Sundahl, is one of the reasons for making the
video.

"Most of the medical information available to women about their
bodies has  been done by men," she says. "How can it be that women
can do this and we  don't know that it's true? It brings out my
feminist rage."

And Sundahl, who dodged the question of her sexual orientation,
asserts that  she's definitely qualified to disseminate ejaculation
information to lesbians.

While she openly admits she has no medical training, no cum laude in
sexology, she believes that as a sexual female, a professional
stripper and a  founding publisher of the lesbian sex magazine, "On
Our Backs," she says she  knows how to talk to women about their
bodies.

"The video is rooted in the feminist movement," she says. "It's not
going to  mean shit if you have a string of initials past your
name."

Therefore, in the tape, Fatale draws a lot of her data by
interviewing  experienced, practicing ejaculators.

One of the more expressive participants, Shannon Bell, says she
likes to  spray walls with her ejaculant.

"When I first started, I'd see how high I shot and keep markers,"
Bell says. "I  love to spray mirrors because it gradually dries and
there's these white  streaks and it just stays there to turn other
people on."

Bell believes in "safe" sex, and uses a rubber on her dildo.

The issue of safe sex is addressed in the video when Carol Queen
cautions  women about ejaculant as a bodily fluid that could
possibly transmit the  AIDS virus.

"I don't share it (the fluid) anymore," Queen says.

Baja, a fortyish lesbian who never actually gushes on camera, says
she's been  ejaculating for 29 years, but she had always wondered if
it was odd. She  used to be offended when lovers would put down
towels and refuse to sleep  in a wet bed.

"But now that I know there's a name for it, and others do it," Baja
says, "I  feel a lot better."

Feeling great is what it's all about, they agree, but ejaculation
takes practice.  Fatale offers advice on how to build up the pelvic
muscles for better control.  She discusses various exercises, and,
like a true video trainer, she encourages  women to "go for the
burn."

Fatale also warns that lack of tone in the sexual muscle can cause
female  problems. She conjectures that the ejaculation fluid, if not
released, may  cause urinary tract infections.

However, Dr. Kushner days she's never heard of that happening.

Yet what happens to the mystery fluid in women who don't ejaculate?

That's a good question," says Fatale, "no one really knows, but it could be
absorbed back into the bladder and pass later as urine."

The $34.95 video is produced by Blush Entertainment (526 Castro
Street, San  Francisco, 94114). And it's being distributed in adult
bookstores and through  Good Vibrations mail order.

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