Nonetheless, Skene’s observation that the glands named for him produced fluid explained a good deal of sexual history. Writers dating back to the ancient Romans reported that women produce a ...

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“Para” means around. In the 1880s, Alexander Skene discovered the first two paraurethral glands, called Skene’s glands. Skene documented that the glands he discovered produce a little fluid.