After more than half a century of debate and bedroom exploration, a row about the location of the fabled G spot may be settled at last, the British weekly New Scientist says.
The G spot, named after a German gynaecologist called Ernst Graefenberg who first mooted its existence in 1950, is said to be a highly sensitive area in the vagina that, when stimulated, gives a woman a powerful orgasm.
But where the G spot is located has been clouded by evidence that is subjective or downright contradictory, and some experts have even concluded that it does not exist.
The answer, according to Italian researcher Emmanuele Jannini, is that, yes, the G spot does exist, but only among those women who are lucky enough to possess it, New Scientist reports.
Jannini, of the University of L'Aquila, used ultrasound to scan a key vaginal area among nine women who claimed to experience vaginal orgasms and 11 who said they didn't.
The target was an area of tissue on the front vaginal wall located behind the urethra. Tissue was notably thicker in this space among the first group of women compared with the second, the scans revealed.
Jannini, who reports the research in full in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, says the evidence is clear: "Women without any visible evidence of a G spot cannot have a vaginal orgasm."
"For the first time, it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has a G spot or not," he believes.
Some experts question whether what Jannini calls the G spot is a distinct structure or the internal part of the clitoris, whose size is highly variable.
Others say more work is needed to confirm Jannini's belief that the G spot is missing in women who don't experience vaginal orgasm. The G spot could be there in all women, but with differing degrees of sensitivity, they believe.
Women who do not have a G spot should not despair, according to the New Scientist report.
"They can still have a normal orgasm through stimulation of the clitoris," said Jannini.
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G-spot
The Gräfenberg spot, or G-spot, is a small area in women behind the pubic bone surrounding the urethra and accessible through the anterior wall of the vagina. It is an erogenous zone that when stimulated leads to high levels of sexual arousal and powerful orgasms.[1]
Woman's internal reproductive anatomy.
There is much dispute among the scientific community about the existence of the G-spot; most strong support is from sexology books for the popular audience.[2]
Origin and popularity of the term
The term "G-spot" was coined by Addiego et al. in 1981.[3] It is named after the German gynaecologist Ernst Gräfenberg who first hypothesized its existence in 1944. The G-spot's existence was not disclosed until the next year, with the publication of The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality by Ladas et. al.[1] Shortly after publication of Ladas's book, many gynaecologists publicly criticized its scholarship and accuracy.[4]
The purported location of the G-spot has changed over time. Two primary methods have been used to attempt to locate it:[2]
One of the studies using self-reported levels of arousal was a case study with a single woman who claimed the experience of a “deeper” orgasm when her G-spot was stimulated. In the published study it was reported that stimulation of the anterior vaginal wall made the area grow by fifty percent.[3]
Another study examined eleven women in an attempt to locate the spot under laboratory conditions. Researchers attempted to find the G-spot by “palpating the entire vagina in a clockwise fashion.” Using this technique the researchers reported discovering that four of the women had highly sensitive areas on the anterior vaginal wall.[5]
Immediately after publication of Ladas's book, gynecologists doubted the existence of the G-spot. In a 1983 Time Magazine article[6] about the G-spot and this book, gynecologist Dr J. Jones Stewart said all evidence pointed to the non-existence of the G-spot. Specifically, that women who had had the G-spot area surgically removed, reported no loss of sensation.
Public belief
Despite professional and scientific criticism and skepticism, the G-spot, as a concept, was widely accepted by the public. One study reports that 84 per cent of women believe that there is a “highly sensitive area” in the vagina. Most popular sexology books treat the G-spot as real.[7]
To date, however, empirical investigations of the G-spot have yielded questionable results.[2] Tests that examined the vaginal wall enervation show there is no one area with a greater number of nerve endings. A recent study of 110 biopsy specimens drawn from 21 women concluded with the absence of a vaginal locus with greater nerve density.[8] G-spot proponents are criticized for placing too much credence upon anecdotal evidence from women.[2]
The few studies attempting to locate the G-spot more precisely have yielded little positive evidence, yet only from small participant samples, and questionable investigation methods.[2]
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