With all the posting I've been doing about human psychology and how it relates to sexuality, I felt compelled to mention
this news item about some new research on the ever-elusive G-spot. As always, it's by a male researcher.
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 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.
So, what exactly has this clarified? All women may or may not have it, to varying degrees, and it may or may not be part of the clitoris. I've also got to point out that this study is useless on methodological grounds, unless there were testing controls not hinted at in the brief news item summation. If the examiners/scientists knew which women said they could or could not, then the physiological examination would have tester bias. Like all studies, this one needs to be done double blind, though that's obviously going to be tricky when you're researching something like this, where you need a special type of volunteer
At any rate, it's odd that they report the tissue in the "spot" is thicker amongst the women who said they can have vaginal orgasms; if the G spot were part of the clitoris you'd think that thinner tissue there would enable more transmission of sensations, or something like that. I'm also wondering where the connection between the G spot and vaginal orgasm was established; the article makes it sound like the researcher takes that as a fact, but there's nothing approaching 100% correlation in real world studies of this.
If you want to read more about the G-spot, and how could you not, there's a fairly
informative page on Wikipedia, though they don't get into how to find it. The
About.com page does, and it was the first return on my "finding the g spot" search, so you might start by looking there. So to speak.
And you might as well read about the much-debated issue of female ejaculation, since it's a related topic. One of
the About.com pages on female sexuality treats that juicy subject as an extension of G-spot stimulation, but experts are still arguing the issue. Early sex research (as related in the book
I recently reviewed on the subject) by Kinsey and Masters and Johnson conclusively "proved" that it was a myth and that women did not ejaculate when they orgasmed. That remained the official position until later researchers provided female test subjects who could routinely ejaculate upon orgasm, and it's now taken for granted that some women can do it all the time. However, they still don't know what causes it or what the ejaculate is.
It's basically urine, and it comes out of the urethra, but it has some enzymes and proteins that differ from usual pee samples. So yeah, basically she's peeing on you (or you're peeing on him/her/it), but it's like, special super love pee. So treat it with reverence; you worked hard to earn it.
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