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From: blp Category: Art Date: 25 May 2008 Time: 08:17 PM Review: I love the thing about the fluid being exactly the same as male ejaculate except for the sperm. Makes sense anyway, given that women get wet when sexually aroused. But if I could just go back to Coffee's original post, specifically, ahem...'Female ejaculation and the general lack of knowledge about women's genitals is all part of our male centric view of sex'. Aside from the mildly mangled syntax, I think we know what you were getting at. Do you really really honestly believe this? The obvious point: from the age of about 12 or 13, males cum pretty much non-volitionally. There's no mystery about it and you don't have to do google searches to learn techniques for making it happen. It just happens. We can and literally do do it in our sleep. I'm not generally a great one for resorting to nature as an argument (as Brecht said, we should be wary of regarding what is common as what is naturally ordained), but in this instance, I can't help noticing that there's also a certain basic biological necessity about the process, one that you can't ascribe to the female equivalent. Sorry, you can lay a lot at the door of sexism and phallocentrism, but I think it's a bit of a duff line, this thing about the general lack of knowledge about women's genitals. Just for starters, there are plenty of women who don't really know what to do with a man's genitals.