ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the ejaculating female body. It traces the theorizations and writings on female ejaculation conducted by philosophers, physicians, and sexologists, and as recorded in the documentations kept by anthropologists. The ejaculating female body can be found in the love discourse of two women at the margins of the patriarchal order; women who, according to Krafft-Ebing’s contention, would have been considered “neurasthenic,” at least to him. In Western philosophy and society female ejaculation has been framed five ways: as fecundity, sexual pleasure, social deviance, medical pathology, and as a scientific problem. The ejaculating female body has not acquired much of a feminist voice nor has it been appropriated by feminist discourse. Contemporary feminism has rejected sameness as being defined from the perspective of the male body, as conformity with the masculine mode. To avoid identification with a male phenomenon, women have suggested that the term “ejaculation” should not be used.
