Italian scientist says G-spot doesn't exist

August 28, 2014  23:47

Men, everything you’ve ever known about sex and the female orgasm, specifically the elusive Gräfenberg spot, popularly known as the G-spot, is wrong. The life-long hunt for the “magic button,” which is believed to be the magical gateway to heighten a woman’s sexual pleasure, is nothing but quasi-mythical, one Italian scientist says. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Reviews Urology, the “intimate area” that leads a woman to climax, is not a spot but a “sensitive area” known as the clitourethrovaginal (CUV) complex, Medical Daily reports.

The G-spot became known as the “holy grail” of female orgasms in the 1950s by Ernst Gräfenberg, a German gynecologist who claimed there was an area on the vaginal wall that, when stimulated, may lead to an orgasm. Despite women experiencing sensitivity more generally along the upper vaginal wall, rather than in a definable spot, the fascination of the G-spot has led to tons of literature published on how to find the small dime to half-a-dollar-sized area.

Books like Orgasm Answer Guide by Beverly Whipple, a sexpert for more than 30 years, and other sexperts, have perpetuated the myth of the G-spot as a way to understand the female orgasm to help men strike it rich by finding the “pot of gold.” In a survey conducted by Ann Summers, a British retail company specializing in sex toys and lingerie, 55 percent of men admitted to having never found their partner’s G-spot and 36 percent said they didn't even know what it is.

The existence of a G-spot has been taken at face value, but the key to the female orgasm may not actually be a spot after all. "Until now, studies have talked about a 'G-spot.' But it's not simply a spot as has previously been thought,” Emmanuele A. Jannini, lead author of the study and a professor of endocrinology and sexology at Tor Vergata university in Rome, told The Local. "Compared to the male erogenous zones, it is much more variable and complex, and also varies from woman to woman depending on the hormonal cycle.”

We know (now) there is a much more complex than a simple, phantasmagoric 'point,'" Jannini said. He expressed to The Local he hopes the study will “hopefully forever” put an end to the talk about the location of the magical G-spot.

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