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The G Spot

All about the G Spot

By Cory Silverberg, About.com

Created: December 25, 2005

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The g spot has been female sexual anatomy’s cause celebre for the past several years, and interest in the g spot, and questions about the g spot show 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, which the g spot sometimes feels like it is.

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.

Why is there a 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. Read more about the g spot debate.

So, 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 really agrees on what “g spot” means, arguing its existence becomes futile since the skeptic may be using different definitions and criteria. So what do we know?

There are several studies published in established and respected peer-reviewed journals that are relevant to the question about whether the g spot exists. Read more about whether or not the g spot exists.

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. Read more about what the g spot is.

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