The history of female ejaculation

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1965-1975

  Korda, Joanna B ^a   Goldstein, Sue W ^b   Sommer, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b San Diego Sexual Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Female Ejaculation; Female Prostate; G Spot; History

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARTHOLIN GLAND; CHINESE; CLITORIS; COITUS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EJACULATION; FEMALE EJACULATION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; FEMALE PROSTATE; FERTILIZATION; GRAFENBERG SPOT; HISTORY; INDIA; LUBRICATION; ORGASM; PENIS ERECTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIST; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SPERM; URETHRA; URETHRA FUNCTION; URETHRAL MEATUS; VAGINA; VAGINA SECRETION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EXOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; ORGASM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953634612     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01720.x     Document Type: Article

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