Does the G-spot exist?

Female sexual pleasure has stumped researchers for most of human existence. Those researchers were mostly men, who quickly became defeated of the ‘complex’ and ‘mysterious’ nature of female sexual anatomy. Throughout the history of research on women’s sexuality, people have hit road blocks. This is still happening today.

For example, does the G-Spot exist?

There are new theories emerging to compensate for decades of scientific neglect. But it’s still a rocky road to a clear answer. In the 1940’s, a dude named Ernst Grafenberg who the G-spot is named after, identified it as an erogenous area of the vagina that had the potential to cause arousal and powerful orgasms. The elusive G-Spot remains a mystery, it’s existence as a distinct structure has never been proven.

This G-banger dude has sent the modern woman into a psychological pit of worry by establishing an unrealistic sexual norm that the G-Spot is a thing, and it makes you cum real hard. And if you’re not touching it, you’re potentially sexually unfulfilled/ incompetent. I mean, we have sex toys based off this theory that stimulate the G-Spot. It’s crazy how latched on we became to a concept that has no scientific evidence since it’s discovery almost 80 years ago.

Only 25% of women orgasm through vaginal penetration alone. So, we can immediately de-bunk that you’re missing out on something, because 75% of women require clitoral stimulation, or a blended method of stimulation to achieve orgasm.

A lot of modern terminology misleads the true nature of the clitoris, with sayings like ‘flicking the bean’ (referring to masturbating). Although the external part of the clitoris is small like a bean, the internal part is not. In reality your clit is huge. It goes about 9 centimetres into your body, and prongs like a wishbone. And when you touch it, wishes really do come true.

In this illustration, the Glans refers to the external part of the clitoris. Everything else is internal. No, they don’t teach you this in school. Yes, the fact that we are only taught about the tip of the iceberg that provides us with such pleasure is fucked up.

During arousal and stimulation, blood rushes to your sex organs, and they become engorged. For example, the internal legs of the clitoris are made of the same erectile tissue as the penis, so when they fill with blood, they expand.

So, one theory is that when you experience orgasm through vaginal penetration, it’s because you are stimulating the internal parts of the clitoris and vestibular bulbs that sit alongside and above the vaginal canal.

Finally some realistic explanations on female sexual pleasure are emerging, but more research is required so we can integrate this information into sex ed school curriculums to avoid enabling unhealthy sexual norms about female pleasure.

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