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ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:08 PM Jan 2012

G-Spot: Science Can't Find It After 60 Years, Study Says

Must have been all men scientists.

Many women swear they have one, but a new review of 60 years of sex research shows science still can't definitively find the G-spot.

Researchers have used surveys, imaging scans and biopsies of women, all trying to locate and define the presumably orgasmic area on the vaginal wall known as the G-spot. Based on a review of 96 published studies, an Israeli and American research team came to one conclusion.

"Without a doubt, a discreet anatomic entity called the G-spot does not exist," said Dr. Amichai Kilchevsky, a urology resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, and lead author of the review, published Jan. 12 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

http://news.yahoo.com/g-spot-science-cant-60-years-study-says-155202501.html
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G-Spot: Science Can't Find It After 60 Years, Study Says (Original Post) ohheckyeah Jan 2012 OP
So guess I shouldn't fault anyone else for not being able to find it, either.... moriah Jan 2012 #1
while this is discouraging news... mike_c Jan 2012 #2
Oh really!??? CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2012 #3
Whats the difference between a womans G-spot and a golf ball? Snotcicles Jan 2012 #39
A whole thread filled with DUzys! Duer 157099 Jan 2012 #4
Oh bullcrap. redqueen Jan 2012 #5
It's named the ohheckyeah Jan 2012 #32
Follow me, I will show you where it is........... Angry Dragon Jan 2012 #6
My Condolences, Mrs. Amichai Kilchevsky. FSogol Jan 2012 #7
This thread brought to you by the letter G The Straight Story Jan 2012 #8
one of many reasons I married my husband Maine-ah Jan 2012 #9
In my experiences, every woman is unique. phleshdef Jan 2012 #10
Agree ... see my post #12. JoePhilly Jan 2012 #13
Here we go tawadi Jan 2012 #11
The women that I "knew" over the years all did have one ... sort of ... JoePhilly Jan 2012 #12
And no, women aren't 'like snowflakes' redqueen Jan 2012 #14
Yes we have the same basic anatomy ceile Jan 2012 #25
Yes, changes in sensitivity are normal. redqueen Jan 2012 #26
I have slept with hundreds, possibly thousands of women slutticus Jan 2012 #30
Sure, if we're all defining the term for ourselves, redqueen Jan 2012 #31
I know where it is. I found it many years ago... Scuba Jan 2012 #15
That was you !?!? watrwefitinfor Jan 2012 #28
LOL.... ohheckyeah Jan 2012 #33
"Researchers have used surveys, imaging scans and biopsies of women..." Solly Mack Jan 2012 #16
I guess they never thought guitar man Jan 2012 #18
No kidding.... ohheckyeah Jan 2012 #34
Yeah, well guitar man Jan 2012 #17
This is one for the Mythbusters! (nt) ehrnst Jan 2012 #19
Just look harder! DetlefK Jan 2012 #20
it's the area behind the clitoris (i think), and thus can allow indirect stimulation of same n/t Scout Jan 2012 #21
Dinah-moe humm, Dinah-moe humm..... BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2012 #22
Eureka! It's the spot right next to the F-spot! n/t BadgerKid Jan 2012 #23
really? dweller Jan 2012 #24
Not enough field work, there, boys... MineralMan Jan 2012 #27
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more nt MrScorpio Jan 2012 #29
So silly! JackRiddler Jan 2012 #35
Clearly this needs more research. DCBob Jan 2012 #36
Are these the same guys who spent centuries missing the clitoris? JackRiddler Jan 2012 #37
It can be a synergy... a nexus... cthulu2016 Jan 2012 #38
Are there physiological differences in other tickle spots? hootinholler Jan 2012 #40
 

Snotcicles

(9,089 posts)
39. Whats the difference between a womans G-spot and a golf ball?
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:09 PM
Jan 2012

Some guys will spend twenty minutes, looking for a golf ball.

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
5. Oh bullcrap.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:15 PM
Jan 2012

Not all women have the physiology to make it easy to stimulate, but it's there.

'We don't have the technology to detect it'

Junk science is so tiring.

It's part of the clitoris you ****** wastes of funding.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726444.100-ultrasound-nails-location-of-the-elusive-g-spot.html

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
32. It's named the
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 07:22 PM
Jan 2012

G-spot because the word we scream when it's found starts with G. Oh, GGGGGGGGGGGGGGod!

Maine-ah

(9,902 posts)
9. one of many reasons I married my husband
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:26 PM
Jan 2012

he found it the first time....and every time after that. Of course there are many other reasons why I married him, lol...but that was one of them.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
12. The women that I "knew" over the years all did have one ... sort of ...
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:28 PM
Jan 2012

It was NEVER in the same place!!!!!

My theory is this ... while it is true that as the research says, there is no physical "discreet anatomic entity" that you can call the G-spot, via my own "field studies" (unpublished), I've come to conclude, that a "specific" woman's level of sensitivity is not anatomically uniform, or easily localized. Each is like a snowflake.

As an example ... and I'm trying to be delicate here ... I've known women who were so sensitive in one very well known location (rhymes with "Dolores", for Seinfeld fans), that those found it painful when touched ... whereas others ... well ... they preferred and enjoyed a much more *ahem* "vigorous approach" to that same area.

And so, I always thought of the search for the G-spot as kind of analogous to the search for some one's ticklish spots. Some people are more ticklish in some areas, and less so in others. Same here. You can't just assume that everyone is sensitive in the same spots.

From my perspective, I guess ... a key part of the fun was the search for "big foot" ... ooops ... I mean the "G-spot".

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
14. And no, women aren't 'like snowflakes'
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:32 PM
Jan 2012

we have a basic physiology. Whether people are sensitive or like it rough is a matter of personal taste, not how their flesh is constructed. Most have the same basic anatomy. ****sakes.

ceile

(8,692 posts)
25. Yes we have the same basic anatomy
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:57 PM
Jan 2012

but I have met women who are incredibly sensitive. Nothing to do with "personal taste".

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
26. Yes, changes in sensitivity are normal.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:03 PM
Jan 2012

The idea that we don't all have g-spots or they might be located in various places around our vaginas, however, is ludicrous.

slutticus

(3,428 posts)
30. I have slept with hundreds, possibly thousands of women
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 07:05 PM
Jan 2012

And I can say with certainty that what you say is false. g-spots are in fact in various locations....and not just in the vagina! They can be anywhere. Earlobes. Thighs. Toes. Kneecap. Neck. Eyelid.

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
31. Sure, if we're all defining the term for ourselves,
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 07:14 PM
Jan 2012

we can say it's in our bank accounts for all anyone cares.

Meanwhile, it is actually the underside of the clitoral whatever it's called... and some women's physiology makes it so that theirs is more easily stimulated, or some not at all.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
27. Not enough field work, there, boys...
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:03 PM
Jan 2012

Those scientists need to get out of the lab more often, I'd say.

I was informed of where it was when I was 16, even though the word really didn't exist in common parlance in 1961, by a girl I was seriously involved with. I can attest to its existence.

 

JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
35. So silly!
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 07:55 PM
Jan 2012

Everyone's going to have their single most sensitive spot that they like to receive visitors. It "doesn't exist" only insofar as one falsely assumes it's going to be an organ.

 

JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
37. Are these the same guys who spent centuries missing the clitoris?
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:01 PM
Jan 2012


Here's a graphic showing the shape of an internal erect clitoris. It's huge (compared to the part we actually see) and yet no one was able to define it until recently?!

Helen E. O’Connell. 2005 Report Anatomy of The Clitoris
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/%7Eanthro/courses/306/articles/oconnell-etal-clitoris.pdf

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
38. It can be a synergy... a nexus...
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:05 PM
Jan 2012

It may be that certain nerves around the bladder have a particular and exagerated effect during sexual arrousal.

It may well be a technique more than an anatomical feature. That doesn't mean that no woman has g-spot orgasms.

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)
40. Are there physiological differences in other tickle spots?
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:35 PM
Jan 2012

Not everyone is ticklish, but some are. I think the G Spot is similar in nature, it just tickles a different part of the brain.

People are simply more or less ticklish.

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