As mentioned on the FWord blog, Italian doctor Emmanuele Jannini has ‘finally’ found the location of the female G spot. Dr Jannini used a sample of 20 women (9 of whom were able to experience vaginal orgasms through G spot stimulation, the remaining 11 could not) which is hardly a scientifically representative sample. Personally (and I am by no means an expert) I think that all women have a G spot; it just may not give them pleasure or indeed be sensitive to the touch. Indeed all this ’study’ has proved is that the 9 women who are capable of experiencing vaginal orgasm are physiologically different from the 11 who could not.
What this study and the reporting of it really illustrates is the misogyny that exists in the medical system. I found my G spot years ago, as have no doubt millions of other women and their partners. This, however, is not enough to persuade an old boy’s network medical establishment to accept the G spot as actually existing. I wouldn’t mind if they were cautious of saying that all women can orgasm through G spot stimulation, or that all women find it pleasurable, but the existence of the G spot has been questioned since the publication of The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality (more details on above link). Because medical science has been unable to look inside every woman and find a big flashing arrow saying ‘G spot, right here!’, medical science has remained skeptical about the G spot’s existence. Read any vagina forum (LJ’s vaginapagina is active and very helpful) or menstrual cup support groups (again, LJ has a thriving and lovely community) and you’ll see that every woman’s vagina is different. The cervix is angled differently, it reacts in different ways…just like the rest of our bodies, our vaginas are as individual as we are. Read the linked Wiki article carefully:
“G-spot proponents are criticized for placing too much credence upon anecdotal evidence from women.“
Because medical science cannot place our vaginas into a ‘one size fits all’ box then it dismisses women’s experiences as ‘anecdotal’, ergo unscientific. Evidently unless we have white-coated scientists poking around in our vaginas we cannot be sure that any of our genitalia actually exists.
