Does the G-Spot Exist?
August 29, 2001 1:23 PM   Subscribe

Does the G-Spot Exist? Be careful, this could be a touchy subject.
posted by msacheson (62 comments total)


 
p.s. Sorry for making it 2-in-a-row with the sex organs stories.
posted by msacheson at 1:24 PM on August 29, 2001


You need to apologize for the pun too. Jeez.
posted by SpecialK at 1:30 PM on August 29, 2001


I sure am willing to look.
posted by hotdoughnutsnow at 1:40 PM on August 29, 2001


I have it on good authority that, regardless of how scientific it is, something in there works...
posted by kevspace at 1:56 PM on August 29, 2001


What about 2-in-a-row Yahoo News stories?
posted by timothompson at 1:56 PM on August 29, 2001


Not to be cold or clinical or anything...but if it were there, wouldn't it have been pretty easy to find on a cadaver?

Humans range widely in how sensitive they are sexually. The original G-man (sorry, couldn't resist) obviously studied a few very sensitive women.

I will now resist sharing personal information.
Further, I will resist making a sophomoric joke (I'm dying to ya know).
posted by frykitty at 2:01 PM on August 29, 2001


Further, I will resist making a sophomoric joke (I'm dying to ya know).

Cadaver...."Dying to".....

You didn't resist hard enough :)
posted by Karl at 2:11 PM on August 29, 2001


don't know about you guys, but i find it about 90% of the time.

(per woman, not per instance. :P)
posted by jcterminal at 2:15 PM on August 29, 2001


Er...am I the only female commenting on this thread?

And yeah, there are certain things you can do that would certainly lead one to believe that there is a g-spot. But ya know what? I'm not gonna talk about that here. I'm all embarrassed now, and I'm going to go find a nice political thread.
posted by frykitty at 2:20 PM on August 29, 2001


I'm working on finding it in 90% of all women.
posted by Hankins at 2:20 PM on August 29, 2001


er- could be they were just being nice jcterminal.

um. heh. kidding!
posted by eatdonuts at 2:24 PM on August 29, 2001


I dunno if it's there or not, I've never found mine. Maybe it's not really a "spot" but just a sensitive area on some women. I know people who can get off on having their fingers sucked, and other people are ho-hum about it. Could just be an erogenous zone, rather than a physical feature.
posted by headspace at 2:28 PM on August 29, 2001


Perhaps they're confusing "scientific evidence" with personal experience.
posted by JohnBigBoots at 2:31 PM on August 29, 2001


Well I've got one deffo. No man's been able to find it though.
posted by Summer at 2:33 PM on August 29, 2001


i found it once, near Sri Lanka, by the bus depot
posted by clavdivs at 2:35 PM on August 29, 2001


``Women have been misled for about 20 years about an important part of their sexuality,'' Hines noted. ``Some women might feel very bad about themselves and their sexuality if they can't find the G-spot--but there is nothing there to find.''

i didn't believe, then everything changed. now i believe.
posted by palegirl at 2:39 PM on August 29, 2001


Summer, welcome to MeFi. Years from now, when you look back on a distinguished career of posting, don't forget where it all started: the G-Spot discussion.

BTW, guys (and gals), here's a fun game: Find the G Spot. Good luck.
posted by msacheson at 2:45 PM on August 29, 2001


I have found it several times, once on a woman who didn't even know she was sensitive there. I believe the exact quote was, "What the hell did you do, and can you do it again?"

Not all women respond to it, but when they do, boy howdy.
posted by kindall at 2:45 PM on August 29, 2001


The G spot is just a made up thing so men can pretend there's a bellringer that works every time with minimum effort. There isn't. Men, I challenge you today! Forget the G-spot and do yourself and the woman(en) in your life a favor - put in the time, effort and technique to bring her off, and tailor your ministrations to the individual. TRY HARDER! :)

Nothing worthwhile comes easy... er, you know what I mean.
posted by UncleFes at 2:46 PM on August 29, 2001


"er- could be they were just being nice jcterminal."

like my girlfriends are EVER that nice.

;)
posted by jcterminal at 2:53 PM on August 29, 2001


There really isn't a true G-spot but there are places of sensitivity that when touched/sucked/licked/what-have-you with the right pressure can bring about enormous vibrations of pure pleasure for a woman.

Excellent point made UncleFes. Any guy/gal who truly is in tune with a woman who is in tune with herself does not need to find the mythic g-spot. However, it takes both people being in tune to achieve this.

Hm, time to masterbate.... heh.
posted by gloege at 2:54 PM on August 29, 2001


Guess what UncleFes, there is nothing made up about the G-spot. It's not a bell-ringer in and of itself, but it is there. I know...believe me, I know. Summer knows. Kindall knows. You are correct that time, effort and technique are what matter most. But the G-spot is still there and Kindall is right, BOY HOWDY.
posted by Scorch at 2:57 PM on August 29, 2001


"Try harder"? As if looking diligently for a spot you can't feel and might not ever find isn't trying hard? Sheesh.
posted by kindall at 2:59 PM on August 29, 2001


OK, here's a question: why would evolution develop such a place? AND make it so hard to reach?

I think you guys just, uh, hit a big one. A combination of several good factors coalescing at one time and then, boy howdy.
posted by UncleFes at 3:01 PM on August 29, 2001


Ahem, "you guys" being a figure of speech :)
posted by UncleFes at 3:01 PM on August 29, 2001


I think, UncleFes, that it's in just the right place to be hit by the tip of the penis, and if the technique's right, the base will hit the clitoris at the same time. A couple of fingers manage to just about get there as well. But now I've said too much.

But as for evolution, surely encouraging a penis into the vagina is good for procreation?
posted by Summer at 3:06 PM on August 29, 2001


UncleFes said: "OK, here's a question: why would evolution develop such a place? AND make it so hard to reach?".

My answer (as a female who does not know where her g-spot is and can scream BOY HOWDY with the right um, touch, without that knowledge)...

To ensure there is a place for women to get ultimate pleasure while watching the man work hard to find it.... thereby leading to more pleasure...

heh. Fingers...

*ahem*
posted by gloege at 3:07 PM on August 29, 2001


I think it should be renamed "the G Experience" ... it's weird calling it a spot ... I'm picturing some little college freshman hunkered down with a flashlight, trying to find The Spot.
I think all the boy howdy-ing is great, but you should be trying for a mutually pleasurable experience, not neccessarily a hundred point bonus. The bonus is great, but if you try for it every time it's going to be mutually disappointing and frustrating when you don't find it 80% of the time.
And may I say how completely surreal it is to talk about genitals with a bunch of people that I have never met and will never meet.
posted by Johannahh at 3:08 PM on August 29, 2001



posted by Johannahh at 3:09 PM on August 29, 2001


(massive apologies for the blink ... I was trying to post an emoticon-ish thing to indicate my embarassment and used blink ... forgetting entirely the html ramifications... apologies to those on netscape....)
[blush]
posted by Johannahh at 3:11 PM on August 29, 2001


MetaFilter: Boy HOWDY!
posted by frykitty at 3:12 PM on August 29, 2001


surely encouraging a penis into the vagina is good for procreation

As if we need encouragement :) It just seems a little specialized for simple procreation. If that was the idea, wouldn't procreation be MUCH more encouraged if the entire interior of the vagina were G-spot enabled, as it were?

And another thing: penises are of variable length. No way you could evolve a sensory organ to meet a standard size.

heh. Fingers...

What are you wearing? :D
posted by UncleFes at 3:13 PM on August 29, 2001


I think Johannahh has found the Blink Spot.
posted by msacheson at 3:17 PM on August 29, 2001


OK, someone get the hose on UncleFes... that is way to many comments on this subject.
posted by hotdoughnutsnow at 3:17 PM on August 29, 2001


"is there a place you can touch on a woman with your finger that'll make her scream?"

"yeah. her eye."

:D
posted by jcterminal at 3:17 PM on August 29, 2001


UncleFes: If that was the idea, wouldn't procreation be MUCH more encouraged if the entire interior of the vagina were G-spot enabled, as it were? (how do you do italics?)

Good point. Why isn't it? Why is the whole female orgasm thing so fraught with difficulty? I feel sick and cheated now.
posted by Summer at 3:18 PM on August 29, 2001


UncleFes - the entire vaginal area is a g-spot. Treat it as such and you will have no problems.


As to what I am wearing... heh...
posted by gloege at 3:19 PM on August 29, 2001


It's the hose already ON that's the problem!

Always has been...

Why is the whole female orgasm thing so fraught with difficulty? [shift-control-T]

That is weird. Maybe just simple biological economics - since women's orgasms are reporterdly so much more powerful, perhaps they're harder to make so to conserve energy and, I dunno, oxygen maybe.

heh...

No $3.99 a minute for you, you big teezie :)
posted by UncleFes at 3:22 PM on August 29, 2001


Maybe just simple biological economics - since women's orgasms are reporterdly so much more powerful, perhaps they're harder to make so to conserve energy and, I dunno, oxygen maybe.

That sounds like an idea with legs. I'm going to write an article and send it to the Guardian. Give me six months and I'll be going to cocktail parties with Richard Dawkins.
posted by Summer at 3:28 PM on August 29, 2001


Summer's speculation about the tip of the penis and the location of the G-spot makes good sense to me. I don't, however, believe the G-spot needs any more scientific explanation or rationalization than say, sexual stimulation of the prostate in a male. Now what purpose does that serve? Isn't sex just as good without it? If you've never had that experience then how can you make a judgment?

Johannahh, you are right, no one should knock themselves out trying to find it or consider their sex lives incomplete just because they haven't located this area. Perhaps it is more sensitive in some more than others. Perhaps there are factors which make it more sensitive or "locatable," such as age, weight, childbirth. My opinion is that it is not a "bundle of nerves" in the vaginal wall, but more likely something on the other side of the vaginal wall stimulated by pressure...again, much like the prostate in males...but I digress.

I believe it exists. I know this for myself to be true. I know the difference in sensation when this area is stimulated. It is not necessary for this area to participate in order to have a satisfying sexual relationship with the person I love. Just because there is "no medical evidence," (says the doctor with the penis,) does not mean that it does not exist.
posted by Scorch at 3:34 PM on August 29, 2001


Two things. Both amazingly less than scientific.

1) I read/heard/hallucinated somewhere that the g-spot *might* create some pleasure to offset pain in child-birth.

2) Someone told me that her orgasms from clitoral (is that a word?) stimulation were "different" than those from g-spot stimulation. Anyone else know anything similar? And, I never could figure out what happened when the two were combined...
posted by whatnotever at 4:37 PM on August 29, 2001


it's in just the right place to be hit by the tip of the penis, and if the technique's right, the base will hit the clitoris at the same time.

This is interesting. I've had two girlfriends say that there's a point where intercourse feels "too deep" - both of them got a little uncomfortable, depending on the angle and position. They said that it wasn't painful, it was just a sensation so intense as to be unpleasant.

Perhaps some women (like Summer) find this same sensation pleasurable, and therefore consider themselves the possessors of a "G-Spot". Those women who don't enjoy it, feel as though they don't have one.

Not being a woman, I feel grossly unqualified to be commenting on this. Still, that's my 2 cents.
posted by aladfar at 4:56 PM on August 29, 2001


Aladfar, I can say with certainty that the "too deep" feeling comes from the tip of the penis touching the cervix. Big Ouch. Not anywhere near the G-spot, either.

There is a definite difference between clitoral orgasm and orgasm when the G-spot is stimulated. It should be noted that while it is possible to have an orgasm by clitoral stimulation alone, it is virtually (if not completely) impossible to have an orgasm from G-spot stimulation alone, even when you know right where to find it. heh. If you do find it, the result is a much more intense and all-encompassing orgasm. This is my personal experience.
posted by Scorch at 5:25 PM on August 29, 2001


It's a Common misconception, but the truth is: Evolution ain't got no purpose, it doesn't do things according to design. Mutations are random, and the selection is 'natural' not 'designed'. As long as there ain't a penalty for 3 legs you can 'spect to see some folks around with them. (Turns out there is, spending time tying 3 shoe laces gets you eaten by tigers).

Could be that's why it ain't universal. (What's the penalty for not having one? Apparently it's searching for it, which does not seem to get you eaten by tigers).

Also anatomical features can be remarkably hard to find. New features are have been discovered as several years ago. But I encourage y'all to wander over to the visible human project and check it out. This might be more helpful.

Personally, I think this is a pitch for funding. I say go for it. But I don't need no more convincing...
posted by daver at 5:26 PM on August 29, 2001


I'll go with yes, and agree with scorch, based on my experience. I did some googling (heh, "what are you doing right now?" "oh, googling")
ANYWAYS
... and I found this link, Dr. Whipple's speech "Beyond The G spot" which also answers your questions, whatnotever.
Annie Sprinkle has some great vids, but none of those links would be work-safe, methinks.
I think the most important thing in all this, and Whipple mentions it, is everyone is different and be "pleasure-directed rather than goal-oriented". So if your sweetie is saying, "hon, that's not working," don't push it. (pun, sorry)

(side: jcterminal, LOL)
posted by spandex at 5:31 PM on August 29, 2001


Thanks, spandex - great link.
posted by whatnotever at 5:52 PM on August 29, 2001


This is all beyond me. Could someone please post some photos.
posted by Postroad at 6:07 PM on August 29, 2001


I exist, all right.
posted by G-Spot at 6:15 PM on August 29, 2001


Postroad: you need a photo of the G-spot?
posted by jcterminal at 6:26 PM on August 29, 2001


ah, wil wheaton has become like the borg, assimilating all the mf threads.... anyway, this reminds me of a sifl and olly episode, where they interviewed the orgasm:

sifl: so, how are you doing?
orgasm: how do you think i'm doing?
and later....
sifl: does the g-spot exist, or is it just a myth?
orgasm: why don't you ask him yourself? hey yo, G!
(another sock puppet with a gold G necklace comes out)

posted by lotsofno at 6:46 PM on August 29, 2001


Yes.
posted by soynuts at 6:55 PM on August 29, 2001


Yes....oh yes...
posted by soynuts at 6:55 PM on August 29, 2001


Yeah....oh yeah....DON'T STOP NOW BABY!
posted by soynuts at 6:56 PM on August 29, 2001


Ohh....oooohhhh.....OHHH!!!!
posted by soynuts at 6:57 PM on August 29, 2001


My I just read this to my fiancee. I think I'm about to find the g-spot. Be back in a few to let you know how it went.
posted by andryeevna at 7:43 PM on August 29, 2001


No g-spot my butt! I had her rockin and rollin'.
posted by andryeevna at 8:24 PM on August 29, 2001


why not ask the ultimate authority on the vagina subject, the editor and publisher of, yes, all about my vagina?
posted by HeikoH at 11:48 PM on August 29, 2001


"OK, here's a question: why would evolution develop such a place? AND make it so hard to reach? "

... evolution has a wicked sense of humour. Considering the male 'G-spot' is up their arse somewhere, so it seems.
posted by prolific at 11:50 PM on August 29, 2001


<snark>
There is no G-SpotTM
</snark>
posted by owillis at 12:21 AM on August 30, 2001


gentlemen: your prostate is your friend. that's all i'm gonna say on the subject.
posted by patricking at 1:48 AM on August 30, 2001


your prostate is your friend

Tell that to Rudy Giuliani or Frank Zappa.
posted by Optamystic at 2:13 AM on August 30, 2001


Absolutely exists, no question about it, although it reveals itself and becomes palpable in a state of excitement (arousal), so you have to start somewhere else and check back occasionally on the roof of the vaginal canal, say about 2-3 inches from the clitoris.
posted by semmi at 4:51 PM on August 30, 2001


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