Editing Female ejaculation (section)

===19th century===
[[Richard von Krafft-Ebing|Krafft-Ebing]]'s study of sexual perversion, ''[[Psychopathia Sexualis (Richard von Krafft-Ebing book)|Psychopathia Sexualis]]'' (1886), describes female ejaculation under the heading "Congenital Sexual Inversion in Women" as a perversion related to [[neurasthenia]] and homosexuality.<ref>von Krafft-Ebing R. ''Psychopathia Sexualis'', Klaf FS (trans.) Stein and Day, NY 1965, at 265</ref>

{{blockquote|the intersexual gratification among ...women seems to be reduced to kissing and embraces, which seems to satisfy those of weak sexual instinct, but produces in sexually neurasthenic females ejaculation}}

It is also described by [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]] in pathological terms in his study of [[Dora (case study)|Dora]] (1905), where he relates it to hysteria.<ref>Freud S. Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. 1905, in Strachey J (trans.) ''The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works by Sigmund Freud'', vol VII: 84</ref>

{{blockquote|The pride taken by women in the appearance of their genitals is quite a special feature of their vanity; and disorders of genitals which they think calculated to inspire feelings of repugnance or even disgust have an incredible power of humiliating them, of lowering their self-esteem, and of making them irritable, sensitive, and distrustful. An abnormal secretion of the mucous membrane of the vagina is looked upon as source of disgust.}}

However, women's writing of that time portrayed this in more positive terms. Thus we find [[Almeda Sperry]] writing to [[Emma Goldman]] in 1918, about the "rhythmic spurt of your love juices".<ref name="bell"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8aZ-jOTonK8C&pg=PA154 |title=''Falk C.'' Love, Anarchy and Emma Goldman. ''Holt Rinehart, NY 1984, at 175. Cited in Nestle J. ''A Restricted Country''. Cleis 2003, at 163 |access-date=2011-10-30|isbn=9781573441520 |last1=Nestle |first1=Joan |year=2003 |publisher=Cleis Press }}</ref> Anatomical knowledge was also advanced by [[Alexander Skene]]'s description of para-urethral or periurethral glands (glands around the [[urethra]]) in 1880, which have been variously claimed to be one source of the fluids in the ejaculate, and now commonly referred to as the [[Skene's glands]].<ref>{{cite journal | author = Skene AJC | title = The anatomy and pathology of two important glands of the female urethra | journal = Am. J. Obstet. Dis. Women Child. | year = 1880 | volume = 13 | pages = 265–70}}</ref>