FEMAIL spoke with a Bel Di Lorenzo, a sex expert, to bust a bedroom myth

‘A lot of people think it’s just discharge, but not really, not at all,’ she said.

‘It comes from the Skene’s glands, which are surrounding the urethra – where pee comes from. So what happens with the Skene’s glands is that they are really close in terms of location to where the g-spot is inside the vagina.

‘So you have the two canals, and in the middle, you have the Skene’s glands. It occurs when the g-spot is very stimulated when we’re having sex, being penetrated another way, or when we’re masturbating – especially if a woman has good blood circulation throughout the reproductive system and the pelvic floor muscles.

‘What can happen is that it will get engorged, and therefore it will basically rub against the Skene glands, where this fluid that is.’

‘That’s when it gets engorged and that’s how squirting ends up happening. So it is definitely related to g-spot stimulation because it’s so close to the urethral sponge and the Skene’s glands.

‘When this area is engorged with blood and stimulated, some women can experience this build-up of fluid, and then it’s released through the urethra, not through the vagina.’

Is squirting urine?

One of the most asked questions about squirting is: ‘Isn’t it just pee?’

Bel said, ‘Yes and no.’

‘Some scientists talk about the Skene’s glands as the female equivalent of the prostate. So while, yes, part of what comes out is diluted urine, there are also other components to it, which are prostate-like secretions that are not specifically urine,’ she detailed.

‘That’s why, even when it does happen, it’s much more transparent, it doesn’t actually look like urine.

‘It is a bunch of different secretions, not specifically urine, not specifically discharge. It is something completely different that seems to originate from the Skene.’

She dived into the details of women’s bodies, squirting, and how it happens

Is squirting an orgasm?

Bel said that squirting and orgasms are ‘completely independent from each other.’

‘You can be having orgasms and not squirt. You can be squirting without having orgasms. You can have both at the same time.

‘It just adds an entirely new dimension to sex. Sex can feel very, very pleasurable, and our bodies can do this really interesting thing that we enjoy even without the ultimate goal of the interaction, which would be orgasm.’

So essentially, Bel said squirting is just an ‘added benefit of great sex and great arousal.’

Can everyone squirt?

Many people believe that being able to squirt is due to the physical makeup of someone’s body.

Bel clarified: ‘A little bit hard to determine an exact percentage because a lot of people don’t know what squirting is. A lot of people believe it’s just a discharge. A lot of people believe it’s just the sensation of wanting to pee, and therefore, it’s not really squirting.’

‘Because once they’re better able to engage these pelvic floor muscles and relax them, they’re able to basically control when this happens.

‘You’re able to initiate it, you can hold it, you can suppress it, if you want whatever, whatever you really want to do, but you’re much more in tune with what’s going on inside your body.

‘So that’s something that happens a lot. It allows for a lot more control over the timing and the intensity of that release.’