Juice
A History of Female Ejaculation
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- ¥2,600
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- ¥2,600
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The fascinating, little-known history of female sex fluids through the millennia.
For over 2000 years, vulval sex fluids were understood to be a natural part of female pleasure, only to become disputed or categorically erased in the twentieth century. Today what do we really know about female ejaculation and squirting? What does the research show, and why are so many details unknown? In Juice, Stephanie Haerdle investigates the cultural history of female genital effluence across the globe and searches for answers as to why female ejaculation—which, according to some reports, is experienced by up to 69 percent of all women and those who have vulvas upon climaxing—has been banished to the margins as just another male sex fantasy.
Haerdle charts female juices from the earliest explanations in the erotic writings of China and India, to interpretations of the fluids by physicians, philosophers, and poets in the Middle Ages and early modern period, to their denial, contestation, and suppression in late nineteenth-century Europe. As she shows, the history of ejaculation and squirting is a history of women, their desires, and the worship and denigration of the female body, as well as the cultural concepts of pleasure, sexuality, procreation, the body, masculinity, and femininity. By examining the fantasies and fears that have long accompanied them, Juice restores female gushes to their rightful place in our collective understanding so that they can once again be recognized, named, and experienced.
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Gender studies researcher Haerdle debuts with a bracing cultural history that traces shifting perspectives on the sexual fluids of women and people with vulvas from antiquity through the present. In ancient China, "female gushes" from orgasms were believed to have healing and restorative powers for the woman's partner, and in India, Tantric Buddhists claimed the goddess Kubjika created the universe from her ejaculation. By contrast, ancient Greek and Roman texts disregarded female pleasure, considering women "a flawed version of men" whose sexual expulsions were underdeveloped imitations of semen. Eighteenth-century efforts to scientifically prove differences between the male and female body led male scientists to deride the previously widespread "notion of a shared seminal fluid" for suggesting a likeness between the sexes, generating skepticism around the existence of female ejaculation that continues to this day (Haerdle notes that it's been illegal to show squirting in British pornography since 2004 because lawmakers insist such scenes actually depict urination, which is banned). The eye-opening history sheds light on how women's sexual pleasure has been the site of controversy and contestation for millennia, and the overview of contemporary research enlightens, as when Haerdle explains that female ejaculation has been found to consist of two distinct fluids, one a viscous secretion from the "female prostate" and the other a "watery liquid produced in the bladder," distinct from urine. Readers will be captivated. Photos.
