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Leigh Dayton, Science writer February 21, 2008
ITALIAN researchers claim they know why some lovers seek but cannot find the fabled and orgasmic G-spot: not all women have one.
As well as reducing anxiety in bedrooms around the world, the discovery promises to end a long-running scientific dispute about the existence of the G-spot, a structure alleged to trigger powerful vaginal orgasms.
According to a team led by physician and endocrinologist Emmanuele Jannini at the University of L'Aquila in central Italy, the G-spot is an area of tissue that lies between the vagina and the urethra.
When Professor Jannini's team conducted vaginal ultrasound scans of nine women who said they often had vaginal orgasms and 11 who said they didn't, they discovered that the sensitivity, or otherwise, of the spot depended on the thickness of the tissue.
Professor Jannini told New Scientist magazine: "(This means that) women without any evidence of a G-spot cannot have a vaginal orgasm."
The new findings, which were published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine overnight, build on earlier work at Professor Jannini's laboratory that showed that a biological compound called PDE5 was highly concentrated where the G-spot was alleged to be. The compound is key to maintaining male erections.
Professor Jannini's latest results also fit neatly with the 1998 discovery - by urologist and surgeon Helen O'Connell of the Royal Melbourne Hospital - that the clitoris is twice as large as anatomists believed. Dr O'Connell found that the erectile tissue of the clitoris surrounded the urethra on three sides, while the fourth was embedded in the front wall of the vagina.
Professor Jannini told New Scientist that women who do not have a G-spot shouldn't worry. "They can still have a normal orgasm through stimulation of the clitoris," he said.
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Jannini’s article is not a scientific article: he write 3 definitions of G-spot and all are wrong; there is no figure that shows a G-spot; one vaginal orgasm at least once in the past month (in women that reported at least two acts of sexual intercourse per week) it is not a significant difference with women without vaginal orgasm; urethrovaginal space is not term used in anatomy; Jannini write -nature of presence or absence of vaginal orgasm is another strong limitation of our findings.-…; he didn’t considered muscle fibers in urethral and vaginal wall could be more numerous in women having orgasms; there’s no part of the vaginal wall adhereing to the clitoris and in the anterior vaginal mucosa there isn’t a clitoral bulb; vaginal orgasm does not have a scientific basis and was invented by Freud in 1905, it is only a theory; G-spot is currently only an hypothesis: Grafenberg, in 1950, has not discovered any spots, in his article he describes some cases of female and male urethral masturbation and the corpus spongiosum of the female urethra; Sexologists and people who believe in a vaginal spot should not use Grafenberg's name yet; Sexologists must to use a correct scientific terminology describing female sexual anatomy and physiology: urethrovaginal space, clitoral bulbs, human clitoris-urethrovaginal complex, periurethral glans, G-spot, they are not terms used in anatomy and the anterior vaginal wall is not an active organ; female sexual anatomy is always described in human anatomy textbooks and the female sexual physiology was at first described in Dickinson’s textbooks in 1949 and subsequently by Masters and Johnson in 1966… sexologists should define as complete sexual intercourse (in other words making love) the case in which the orgasm happens in both partners with or without a vaginal intercourse, and it is possible stimulate the clitoris during the vaginal/anal intercourse with fingers, and during first time it is not obligatory to have a vaginal intercourse… Sexologists should spread certainties for all women not hypotheses without scientific bases… See video in it.youtube.com/ newsexology
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