www.weevilmagazine.com Issue #5 February 2010
The Legend of G-Spot
Not long ago, the media cried out “British they had a pineal gland following their logic, the
Scientists Can't Find the G-spot!” Suddenly, the pineal gland must not exist either. The conclusion
stereotypically sexualized nations had new offered in the press summary makes the same
reasons to laugh at the British. Additionally, men claim, but tacks on another possibility: "self-report
and women across the world were assured that is an inadequate way to assess the G-spot and
they weren’t bad in bed - which seems to be the researchers should in future focus more on
intention. After all, the Holy Grail of sexuality ultrasound studies. .My thoughts, exactly.
doesn’t exist! Why try? Honestly, one member of
the research team sounds like a scorned woman, Thankfully, an Italian group performed ultrasounds
destined to a bad sex life and wanting to assure to investigate the existence of the G-spot many
other women that it's normal. You might ask, how years previously, publishing their results in 2008.
was this discovered? The answer: a self-reporting Out of the 20 healthy women sampled, the
survey. individuals with self-reported vaginal orgasms
exhibited thicker tissue in the urethrovaginal
The British scientists located their subjects through space. A couple of different conclusions are likely
the TwinsUK Registry, with the intention of based on these findings. The thickened tissue
comparing the results reported by fraternal twins could be an anatomical difference set by genetics.
with the results from identical twins. The twin study Conversely, the tissue could be thickened as a p
ot
was meant to determine whether or not the G-spot result of vaginal orgasms. Naturally, the truth
is genetically based. The average age of the could be a mixture of both. The conclusion section
responders was 55 years, the oldest being 83, of their report suggests that they’ll ask the thin-
meaning that many were born before the sexual walled-women to stimulate the area repeatedly
revolution of the 1960s. Seventy-one homo or then come back for more ultrasounds.
bisexual women were excluded from the survey
because "of the common use of digital stimulation Desmond Morris describes a simple experiment
among these women, which may bias the results". undertaken to further the understanding of the T
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Sounds suspicious to me, as that’s how many female orgasm in his book The Naked Woman: A
women initially locate their G spot. After sending Study of the Female Body. After asking 27
out this survey with poorly worded questions about couples to experimentally differ their sexual
the “so-called G-spot”, the researchers claimed the positions to those that were more likely to
following: "we found 56% of women reported stimulate the internal erogenous zones (such as
having a G-spot. The prevalence decreased with the G-spot), three quarters of the women reported
age". These sorts of results led the so-called regular vaginal orgasms. This is astounding
researchers to conclude that "there is no because the reported number of women unable to
physiological or physical basis for the G-spot" achieve regular vaginal orgasms is two out of
despite the fact that their research was a self- three. Maybe if couples taking surveys could
reporting survey and not a physical examination. I expand beyond the basic missionary position (aka
might find similar results asking men and women if lying there like a corpse), the women could
(possibly) develop thicker urethrovaginal tissue
and the world could be a much happier place.
This brief delve into G-spot research has
uncovered several thoughts. First off, it seems that
many women are treated downright poorly in bed
(or not treated at all, if you get my meaning). And
for goodness’ sake, change positions from time to
time. Also, researchers are beginning to claim that
each woman may be different. They have
apparently never dated more than one woman or
possibly anyone at all.
Jenni VanAusdall would like an ultrasound of her
vagina. Just for fun.
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