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The G Spot

All About the G Spot

By , About.com Guide

Updated January 21, 2010

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The g spot has been female sexual anatomy's cause celebre for several years, and interest in the g spot shows no signs of slowing down. Given the number of g spot articles in women's magazines, videos on how to find your g spot, and books about the g spot, its hard to know whether interest in the g spot is coming directly from people who want to explore other sexual experiences, or from a variety of industries that make money off sexual trends.

While other parts of female sexual anatomy, like the internal clitoral body, may eventually bare much more interesting fruit from further research, because of the intense interest on the g spot, it is worth getting some basic information, and resources that can help you find answers that are right for you.

What's the Debate About the G Spot?

This is a difficult question to give a balanced answer to precisely because there is still debate about the g spot. If you were to ask a practicing family doctor about the g spot debate you might get one answer, if you ask a g spot sex activist you’d get a different answer, and if you were to ask a medical researcher who has done original research on female sexual anatomy, you’d get another answer.

Does The G Spot Exist?

This is a little bit like asking if God exists (but without the thousands of years of bloodshed and oppression). Because no one even agrees on what "g spot" means, arguing its existence becomes futile since the skeptic may be using different definitions and criteria. Still, here's what we know and don't know about the fabled spot.

What Is The G Spot?

The g spot was named for the German physician Ernst Grafenberg who first described "an erotic zone located on the anterior wall of the vagina along the course of the urethra that would swell during sexual stimulation." By all non-medical accounts the g spot is just that. It isn't a specific spot as much as it is an area that responds to stimulation. There are a variety of different theories as to what the g spot is and why it might feel good.

How Do I Find the G Spot?

One of the problems people have when trying to locate the g spot is that they are expecting it to be a magic button, which, once pressed, immediately delivers mind altering sexual pleasure. Sadly this only happens in old Woody Allen movies. The best way to find your g spot (or the g spot of someone you love) is to start looking after you're already turned on.

G Spot Vibrators

There are hundreds of sex toys designed and marketed as g spot vibrators or g spot dildos. Most sex toys that are safe for penetration, and firm enough that they won’t bend when inserted into the vagina, can be used for g spot stimulation. Whenever a sex toy is hyped, like a toy designed to stimulate the g spot, people might imagine something akin to a heat seeking missile that will search and satisfy on its own (I wish!). In reality g spot sex toys can be fun, and they can make stimulating the g spot easier, but they are only as creative and functional as the people using them.

G Spot Books

Most general sex manuals that have been written in the past ten years include some basic information about the g spot. If you’re looking for more detailed information and you’re the kind of person who likes to read about the history and politics of sexuality, the following books will offer you more than a passing reference to how to find your g spot and what it might feel like (although most of them do that too!)

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