You may think a woman is 'squirting' during sex - but it could be something else

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sex, but it turns out it may not always be the case.The term "squirting" refers to an experience that some women achieve at orgasm, but a lot of mystery has always surrounded it.Women are able to produce many types of fluid during sex, and they're all quite different.READ MORE: Why female orgasms are rare - how to awaken deepest pleasure according to sex practitionerDuring the stage of arousal, the vagina can release a lubricating fluid.Then, as a woman reaches orgasm, two other types of fluid can also be released from the urethra.This could be a milky fluid, that usually appears in small amounts, or a clear fluid that often emerges in quite large amounts.According to New Scientist, both sorts of orgasm fluids have been described as female ejaculation in the past, but the term has now become reserved for the milky type of fluid.Meanwhile "squirting" is the term used to refer to the release of the clear fluid.It's said that roughly 5% of women in Western countries are known to experience squirting, but it's been hard to determine where the fluid actually comes from.Back in 2014 research led by French gynaecologist Samuel Salama, now at the Poissy Saint Germain en Laye Hospital in Paris, implies that squirting is actually down to expulsion of urine from the bladder.This conclusion was reached after ultrasounds conducted on seven women who could squirt revealed that they had full bladders just before the squirting took place.Miyabi Inoue, a urologist at Miyabi Urogyne Clinic in Japan, also worked with her colleagues to inject blue dye mixed with water into the bladders of five women who were capable of squirting.A male volunteer then worked to arouse the women until they squirted, while a researcher stood with a sterile cup.