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Do women have a prostate gland??


Question: or is it just men? and what is its function?
Answers: no that is the male anatomy only. the female equivalint to this is the skenes gland is the female.
No, we have a uterus and ovaries. The prostate gland is a male organ. Go to Google and type in prostate gland and you'll read all you'll ever want to know.
The prostate gland has a major function in the male reproductive system:
http://www.answers.com/prostate
It secretes the clear fluid of a man's semen and allows better travel for the sperm. It makes up about 1/3 of ejaculation fluids.


Some speculate that highly aroused women that express fluid or can ejaculate from their urethral spongy tissue being aroused and secreting fluid from a remnant prostatic gland (this is still unproven)
http://www.answers.com/female%20ejaculat...

So maybe some women do, but it is very infantile and underdeveloped.
http://www.the-clitoris.com/f_html/ejacu...
no they don't and its purpose i think is related to sperm production
Im not a prostate expert but I dont think women have them...

Only men have a prostate gland.
none. .....men only........it's for seminal fluid production.
Mmmmmmm...discover the function of a prostrate and you'll have your answer.
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Nope, the prostate gland produces fluid for sperm.
no,the prostate creates semen so i would hope not.
That's just nasty! But the answer is no. You do have a colon though.
No, only men have a prostate gland. It's main function is to store and secrete a clear, slightly basic fluid that constitutes up to 1/3 of the volume of semen.


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