The search for the female G-spot — that supposedly erotic pleasure button somewhere in the vagina — has become like the search for the Lost City of Atlantis. Some insist it’s a myth; others say it’s real and that they’ve found it; and still others say it was never lost, it’s just part of an island we’ve known about all along, an extension of the clitoris.
Dr. Adam Ostrzenski, a surgeon and retired professor of gynecology, who now practices “cosmetic gynecology” in St. Petersburg, reports in an article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine today that he found the G-spot in an 83-year-old Polish woman. It is, not an extension of the clitoris, as many experts believe, but a discrete structure angling away from the urethra.
He based his search on previous investigations and readings dating as far back as the third century A.D.
The bizarre G-spot controversy that has gone on for nearly 40 years, he says “should be resolved.”
The question is: Has the doctor done it?
- First, Ostrzenski dissected a cadaver, so there is no way to know how the ropy, bluish structure he displays in his paper functioned other than that it seemed to be erectile.
- Second, the woman was 83-years-old, about 30 years past menopause and its dramatic hormonal shifts.
- Third, she is just one woman.
Ostrzenski told msnbc.com, over 50 reporters from all over the world have called him to prepare stories on his “discovery,” evidence of a kind of G-spot mania. The G-spot (like everything) has even become political, with some women arguing that G-spot denial is an anti-woman slander meant to keep women from fulfilling their sexual potential.
It’s also become a business. In 1953, German Doctor, Ernst Gränfenberg first described the spot, supposedly an inch or two inside the vagina on the anterior wall (facing the front of a woman, not the back) in 1953. In 1982, Gräfenberg’s findings were popularised in a book called The G-Spot And Other Discoveries about Human Sexuality. Now, sex toy manufacturers sell G-spot stimulator. Publishers offer G-spot how-to books, and surgeons offer “G-spot augmentation” meant to enhance sexual pleasure.
The dark side of the mania is that many women, who’ve come to believe the G-spot is real, say they can’t find it, or that they don’t have it. They worry they’re doing something wrong, or that they are defective in some way, and missing out on sexual pleasure.