Currently the media have been sprouting stories reporting on a study by British researchers that asked women if they have a g-spot. According to the report’s author, the findings show “fairly conclusively that the idea of a G-spot is subjective.”

I have a one-word response to this: OY! If you are to believe the people who designed this study, to prove or disprove the existence of an anatomical structure, you ask people if it exists. Say what? In my opinion, if you want to discover the existence of a particular body part, it makes a lot more sense to study actual bodies. If you’re looking for subjective information about how much pleasure they receive from said structure, that’s when it makes sense to inquire.

Asking a woman if she has a g-spot is like asking a man if he has a prostate (or like asking anyone if they have an appendix). How would they know, other than by general reputation? However, if you wanted to discover how many men receive pleasure from prostate stimulation, that’s when it’s logical to question them—though the accuracy of the answers will usually be a bit suspect, and your findings will probably vary significantly depending on exactly who and how you ask.

Interestingly, the British study excluded lesbians and bisexual women and asked no questions about specific sexual activities. I’m not surprised that women whose predominant sexual relationships are heterosexual and whose erotic activities probably focus on penis-in-vagina intercourse don’t have a high appreciation of this part of their genital equipment. In general, penile stimulation is one of the least effective ways to stimulate the g-spot.

Here we have another seriously flawed study with utterly unsupported conclusions that’s bandied around by the mainstream media as if it were valid. Such is the power of “science,” even when it’s bad science. Media misinterpretation of scientific studies is commonplace, but this doesn’t keep it from being a pet peeve of mine, along with its near cousin—scientists who design studies badly and then put forth their conclusions as if they were proven by their data.

Ask women about the existence of specific parts of their genital anatomy, and the only thing you’ll discover, as I did from decades of midwifery and gynecology practice, is that an enormously high percentage of women don’t know the most basic facts about their equipment. When you understand how many women (and men) are still searching for the clitoris, you’ll look at research like this and ask yourself: What were they thinking?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6973971.ece

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/sexy_spot_myth_8T9jQ5V3T05pJ80XQohIYO

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/149542/G-spot-is-just-in-the-mind-