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#1 Jan 07 2010 at 6:41 AM Rating: Excellent

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Or so say the team of scientists working on it. We've all been there I suppose. You think you're gonna find it, you get close, closer, closer, almost there, yes, yes... And then you don't. Disappointing.

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The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.

Their study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine is the biggest yet, involving 1,800 women, and it found no proof.

The King's College London team believe the G-spot may be a figment of women's imagination, encouraged by magazines and sex therapists.

But sexologist Beverley Whipple, who helped popularise the G-spot idea, said the work was "flawed".

She said the researchers had discounted the experiences of lesbian or bisexual women and failed to consider the effects of having different sexual partners with different love-making techniques.

"This is by far the biggest study ever carried out and shows fairly conclusively that the idea of a G-spot is subjective"

That's what HE said!

Or, maybe it's just a problem with their research technique.

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#2 Jan 07 2010 at 6:57 AM Rating: Excellent

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See, this is odd. I remember reading a book recommended on here years ago called She Comes First, which said that most people in the sex-science field of study believe the G-Spot is nothing more than a particularly dense area of nerve endings that are still connected to the rest of the clitoral cluster of nerves. It's all part of the same network; A "G-Spot" ****** is just stimulating one end of the network, while a "clitoral" ****** is stimulating another. They're all connected, and since every person is different, some might not have "G-Spot"s.

I agree with the issue raised by one of the scientists, that asking women if they had a G-Spot is really a bad reporting technique. Women may or may not; perhaps they haven't orgasmed and thus thought they didn't, or ****** primarily from clitoral stimulation and never bothered to look for a G-Spot. If even scientists don't "know" if the G-Spot exists, how is asking women if it exists good reporting? They probably don't know what to look for!

Edited, Jan 7th 2010 8:04am by LockeColeMA

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#3 Jan 07 2010 at 7:05 AM Rating: Good

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In reality almost all '80s horror movies are actually medical documentaries from "in the field" scientists who perform dissections on women "volunteers" in order to locate that nerve cluster.

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#4 Jan 07 2010 at 7:08 AM Rating: Excellent

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LockeColeMA wrote:

If even scientists don't "know" if the G-Spot exists, how is asking women if it exists good reporting? They probably don't know what to look for!

Exactly! Most scientists I know have enough trouble locating the G-string.

Most musicians manage it, though.

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#5 Jan 07 2010 at 7:14 AM Rating: Excellent

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Also, the same research was reported on CNN yesterday. I like the difference in reporting styles:

CNN: Finding the G-spot: Is it real?
BBC: The G-spot 'doesn't appear to exist', say researchers

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Her team did not physically examine the women for the presence of G-spots but instead gave participants a survey asking whether they believed that they had a "so called G-spot, a small area the size of a 20p coin on the front wall of your ****** that is sensitive to deep pressure?" (A 20p coin is about the size of an American nickel.)

They found that 56 percent of respondents answered "yes" and that there was no genetic correlation. But only about 30 percent said they were able to achieve ****** during intercourse, which may indicate that women were confused by the G-spot question because stimulation of the G-spot is supposed to induce ******, she said.

Again, seems like a pretty poor way to test for the existence. It would be like saying "God does appear to exist, because 56% of respondents thought so."

Also, the second bolded part was odd to me. Unless your ***** is tilted upward, odds are the G-Spot is not going to be directly stimulated during intercourse. There will be some rubbing (the first couple of inches inside the ***** are extremely sensitive, and that's what usually induces ****** during intercourse), but you won't be hitting where the G-spot is with enough steady pressure with just your *****. I guess the article's author, or perhaps the scientists she was paraphrasing, don't really understand this?

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#6 Jan 07 2010 at 7:22 AM Rating: Excellent

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XKCD.

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#7 Jan 07 2010 at 7:25 AM Rating: Good

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Following that double entendre to its logical conclusion, bassists would find it easiest to locate, and we all know that's not true.

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#8 Jan 07 2010 at 7:27 AM Rating: Good

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Samira wrote:

XKCD.

That's bad form there Samira, that link will lead to the newest comic and will only make sense until around midnight tonight. This one will stand the test of time.

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#9 Jan 07 2010 at 7:45 AM Rating: Good

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Well, with knowledge of my own body and the ability to have multiple orgasms, I'm going to defend the existence of the g-spot. Firstly, I can't have multiples with clitoral stimulation alone; the g-spot is essential. Secondly, I know when it's being stimulated. It's merely a matter of correct body angles. You can't tell me that the "oh yes right there" moment is in my head, because if I'm aroused properly, I'll ****** within seconds of my g-spot being stimulated.

If it is a myth, well, I thank Dr. Grafenberg for its perpetuation. Sure has brought me more joy than Santa Claus.

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#10 Jan 07 2010 at 7:58 AM Rating: Excellent

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I don't know why I didn't expect to be completely grossed out by this thread. Hindsight and all that I guess.

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I don't know why I didn't expect to be completely grossed out by this thread. Hindsight and all that I guess.

For you, Nix, from the CNN article:

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Men also have a G-spot of sorts, below the ******* and above the ****, Goldstein said, although it has not gotten as much attention as the more mysterious female G-spot.

Does that help a little?

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#12 Jan 07 2010 at 8:13 AM Rating: Good

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LockeColeMA wrote:

For you, Nix, from the CNN article:

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Men also have a G-spot of sorts, below the ******* and above the ****, Goldstein said, although it has not gotten as much attention as the more mysterious female G-spot.

Does that help a little?

It's called a prostate.

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#13 Jan 07 2010 at 8:15 AM Rating: Good

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LockeColeMA wrote:

NixNot wrote:

I don't know why I didn't expect to be completely grossed out by this thread. Hindsight and all that I guess.

For you, Nix, from the CNN article:

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Men also have a G-spot of sorts, below the ******* and above the ****, Goldstein said, although it has not gotten as much attention as the more mysterious female G-spot.

Does that help a little?

That's called the prostate. By stimulating the perineum you are just indirectly stimulating it, as opposed to the insertion required by direct stimulation.

But I'm sure Nix knew that. Women have a prostate, but it's not the g-spot.

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#14 Jan 07 2010 at 8:35 AM Rating: Good

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I'm not a scientist, but I'm one of the "believers" that the G-spot is another part of the ********. Most people don't realize that the "little man in the boat" is only one part of a much larger organ, which wraps around the ***** and labia. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if some of the wiring was actually attached to the inside of the vaginal wall.

It's sort of like out what we think of as a mushroom is only the fruiting body of a fungus that has spread out several feet underground.

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#15 Jan 07 2010 at 9:12 AM Rating: Excellent

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That's bad form there Samira, that link will lead to the newest comic and will only make sense until around midnight tonight. This one will stand the test of time.

Well, the half-life of a thread is about three hours.

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#16 Jan 07 2010 at 9:13 AM Rating: Excellent

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And I was looking forward to the confusion when this thread gets necroposted in a couple of years.

Oh, well.