Thoughtful Animal has more on the G-spot study, including responses from “angry French gynecologists”. Dispatches from the culture war also blogged about it. The comments on Ed’s post are comedy gold, so do take a moment to read them.
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No G-spot? Really?
Earlier this month there was an article published in on the BBC website reporting about a twin study looking at the existence of the G-spot. According to the BBC and the researchers, there is no such thing.
The King’s College London team believe the G-spot may be a figment of women’s imagination, encouraged by magazines and sex therapists.
All I have to say is if this is a figment, it’s quite a lovely feeling figment.
The problems with the study were documented by SciCurious who actually dug up the reference. The paper in question hasn’t been published, yet. Sci did mention a number of problems with the article.
- The study group was older women (55+). This age group has two issues that may bias the results: menopause, which changes hormones and sexual response and cultural issues that mean they may never have looked for a g-spot and not know if they have one or not.
- Only heterosexual women were included in the study.
- The researchers never defined “g-spot” they just asked if the women believed they had one.
I’m not a sociologist but even I know you need to define your terms when asking questions of people. Srsly! Not rocket science!
For myself, there’s clearly an area on the anterior wall of my vagina that feels very very good when properly stimulated. So good I can orgasm from it. In fact, Cam will often finger that spot while I masturbate and then … Wow. Fireworks.
Just an anecdote, but it’s pretty clear to me that on my own body there is something there. Whether it’s a figment or training or anatomical, I can say that the researchers don’t know shit about me and I will continue to believe in my own g-spot.
On the flip side, the BBC article mentions that some women (and men even) may feel pressured by the popular portrayal of the g-spot.
It is rather irresponsible to claim the existence of an entity that has never been proven and pressurise women and men too.
That I can believe. Even believing I have a g-spot I usually need some sort of clitoral stimulation to orgasm. My primary partner wants me to orgasm and if that means a bit of vibration or me playing with myself or him rubbing my clit while we’re fucking, that’s fine by him. OTOH, he’s pretty special and I know that some guys expect their women to come just from the mystical power of their penis. Yeah, not so much.
In the grand scheme of things, this study isn’t the definitive one, there are too many design flaws for anyone to draw any real conclusions from it. Plus, at least 50% of the women interviewed do believe they have a g-spot. That’s a pretty high percentage of women believing in a figment.
Did the earth move for you, dear?
The Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to fire up Sept 10 at 9 am Geneva time. That works out to about 11pm Sept 9 here in pacific time.
Clearly we need to have mindblowing sex this evening before 11pm just in case the world is destroyed. Not that it will be. The other half actually worked on a synchrotron and is a math geek. He assures me that the world will not end and has even explained some of the math behind it.
But, hey, if the world does end I want to be savoring the afterglow when it happens.
EDIT: Apparently, they’re not colliding tonight, they’re just pumping the first round of protons into the accelerator. Everything is going to be going in the same direction. No Boom. At least at the LHC. He tells me that if I want an excuse, he will come up with a multitude of ways that protons will be colliding this evening inside the LHC ring.
It’s in the way that she walks…
ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2008) — A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman’s history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Go read the whole article.