Italian scientists have once again asked, “what’s the deal with the G-spot?” and instead of just pondering the question, they’ve taken their research to the next level, poking and prodding 30 women (through ultrasound) to discover just exactly what it is and why its more sensitive in some women than in others. And now they’ve come to the conclusion that 1 in 4 women have a G-spot, or at least a G-spot that can bring them to orgasm without a helping hand or vibe (Of the 30 women, 8 women had this G-spot, but only 5 of them knew how to use it).

More interestingly, Italian researchers, who presented their findings at the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine in Rome in November, discovered that there are clear anatomical differences between women who have vaginal orgasms (without any direct clitoral stimulation) and women who don’t. See, the G-spot is the urethral sponge and while it’s felt through the vagina, it’s actually in the urethra. So research says that the tissue (not the kind you blow your nose with) in the region between the vagina and the urethra is thicker in women who have these vaginal orgasms, than those who don’t.  And there is now apparently evidence that women who have this thicker tissue can actually learn to achieve vaginal orgasms if they aren’t having them already. Women who don’t? Not so much.

The other things the research is trying to figure out include the role testosterone plays in the G-spot, and if the G-spot can “grow” with increased activity and practice.

So why is this so important? Well, for starters I don’t think it should be. I mean there’s a lot of loaded language in the news reports on this research. Language about the “lucky” ones who can have these orgasms verse the ones who can’t. And then the whole discovery of the “joy” of vaginal orgasms, as if women who can’t achieve orgasm vaginally are missing out on the best thing in life. But most women cant’ have these orgasms, and Freud already f*cked this up for so many generations of women. The clitoral orgasm is not inferior to the vaginal orgasm, so why do we still try to figure out how and why we can, or can’t achieve vaginal orgasms? Shouldn’t we focus on how to enhance whatever orgasms we have, or how to have orgasms if we can’t? As a sex educator, the standard line I use is that less than 30% of women can have orgasms from vaginal stimulation alone, and now this research confirms it (and says that 25% of women can do so). Biologically this is interesting. Psychologically this can really screw things up for some women.

Read the full article at The New Scientist