We've hit the G spot, say scientists

Deborah Smith Science Editor
February 21, 2008 - 5:54AM

SCIENTISTS have pinned down the position of the fabled G spot and developed a simple test they claim can identify whether a woman has one.

The existence of the female erogenous zone, which is said to lead to very intense orgasms, has been controversial due to a lack of research.

The study, by an Italian team, is the first to uncover an anatomical difference between woman who say they have experienced vaginal orgasms involving a G-spot, and those who say they have not.

Ultrasound was used to scan the vaginal walls of the women, and an area of tissue was found to be thicker on the front side, between the vagina and the urethra, in those who had had the vaginal orgasms, which occur without stimulation of the clitoris.

The findings, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine and reported in New Scientist, could help couples work out whether they should keep on searching for the pleasure centre, or give up.

"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," said team leader, Emmanuele Jannini, of the University of L'Aquila.

But Beverly Whipple, the American researcher whose team coined the term G spot and made it famous more than 25 years ago, challenged the conclusion that some women lacked a G spot.

"It is an intriguing study, but it doesn't necessarily mean that women who don't experience orgasm don't have any tissue there," Professor Whipple, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, told the magazine.

Her research has shown that all women describe some degree of sensitivity in the area, about a third of the way up the vagina.

She said the thicker tissue might have been found in all of the women in the Italian study if they had been stimulated before being given the ultrasound, because the area swelled in response to physical pressure.

Dr Jannini said it was not possible from his study, which involved 20 women, to estimate how many women have a G spot.

Only 30 per cent of women in some surveys report having orgasms through intercourse.

The findings, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine and reported in New Scientist, could help couples work out whether they should keep on searching for the pleasure centre, or give up.

So long as you're not pedo-bear, she'll know.

I'm just glad to know it is only about one-third of the way in.

So, wait a minute, are they saying that only women with a G spot have vaginal orgasms?

Didn't I read about an 'A' spot somewhere? Like farther inside? Maybe it was in like Maxim or Stuff or some bullshit mag like that.

The A-Spot, AFE-zone or Anterior Fornix Erogenous Zone. Also referred to as the Epicentre, this is a patch of sensitive tissue at the inner end of the vaginal tube between the cervix and the bladder, described technically as the 'female degenerated prostate'. (In other words, it is the female equivalent of the male prostate, just as the clitoris is the female equivalent of the male penis.) Direct stimulation of this spot can produce violent orgasmic contractions. Unlike the clitoris, it is not supposed to suffer from post-orgasmic over-sensitivity.

Its existence was reported by a Malaysian physician in Kuala Lumpur as recently as the 1990s. There has been some mis-reporting about it, and its precise position has been incorrectly described by several writers. Its true location is just above the cervix, at the innermost point of the vagina. The cervix of the uterus is the narrow part that protrudes slightly into the vagina, leaving a circular recess around itself. The front part of this recess is called the anterior fornix. Pressure on it produces rapid lubrication of the vagina, even in women who are not normally sexually responsive. It is now possible to buy a special AFE vibrator – long thin and upward curved at its end, to probe this zone.

I found this picture of the equipment used in the study:

Direct stimulation of this spot can produce violent orgasmic contractions.

Why would I want her to experience violent orgasms? Can we just start with getting her to orgasm and I can work up to violent orgasms later? Actually, can we just work on me getting laid?