Has the ‘G-Spot’ Been Confirmed at Last?

WEDNESDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) — So, what does the
“G” stand for in G-spot? Maybe it’s “G” as in Holy Grail, because a
Florida gynecologist contends that he has finally found it.

By means of a seven-hour dissection, Dr. Adam Ostrzenski said, he
located the elusive source of female sexual satisfaction deep within the
vagina. He makes his claim in a paper published online April 25 in The
Journal of Sexual Medicine
.

But several experts are highly skeptical of Ostrzenski‘s assertion,
saying his paper is long on speculation and headline-grabbing potential
and short on proven scientific research.

Ostrzenski, director of the Institute of Gynecology in St. Petersburg,
said he performed the layer-by-layer vaginal dissection on the cadaver of
an 83-year-old woman who had just died of head trauma.

The existence of the G-spot is a matter of intense debate. It was
actually named after scientist Ernest Grafenberg, author of the landmark
1950 article, “The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm.”

Part of the controversy is that — unlike the clitoris — the G-spot
has never been seen or felt as a distinct structure. Although many women
have reported sexual pleasure stemming from the anterior (frontal) part of
the vagina, nobody could document a more precise source or describe its
size and appearance.

Ostrzenski said the structure uncovered in the study had three distinct
sections, sat at a 35-degree angle inside the urethra, and “has a bluish,
grape-like appearance.”

He said he plans to perform similar forensics on the bodies of women of
various ages.

If Ostrzenski and others can consistently reproduce the discovery, he
said, “it may absolutely change our view of how the orgasm is created; it
will change the understanding of sexual function. It may help in the
treatment of the dysfunctional aspect of sex.”

Not so fast, cautioned one of three experts who strongly criticized the
study.

Barry Komisaruk, a distinguished professor in the department of
psychology and associate dean of the graduate school at Rutgers
University, submitted the trio’s concerns in a journal commentary.

Komisaruk, a behavioral neuroscientist, said the study author made
vastly unwarranted conclusions from a single tissue sample without
performing appropriate scientific tests. For all anyone knows, he said,
rather than locating the G-spot, Ostrzenski may have found a sign of
disease, such as a tumor.

The study also lacked “microscopic analysis to determine if it is
glandular or erectile tissue, whether the ‘vessel’ is a blood vessel or a
secretory duct, whether the tissue has a nerve supply, and whether it is
normal or pathological tissue,” Komisaruk said.

“We submit that the author’s claim to have discovered ‘the’ G-spot does
not fulfill the most fundamental scientific criteria,” wrote Komisaruk and
his co-authors.

For claims to be taken seriously, he said, they must be backed by
“dissections using microscopic and chemical analysis, in women of all
ages. Not only dissections, but observations of this body region in life,
using modern imaging and other methodologies, correlating with those who
do or do not claim to have a ‘G-spot,'” along with other research.

Study author Ostrzenski said he could only speculate as to why nobody
had made the discovery before him. “The location of the G-spot is quite
deeply situated and maybe that is the reason,” he said. “The second aspect
is that the vagina exists in separate layers and surgery is usually
performed on the upper part.”

Besides his own work, Ostrzenski said that genetic findings, studies of
vaginal electrical activity and centuries of descriptions from women
support the G-spot’s existence.

More information

The Kinsey Institute has more about research on
sexuality
.

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