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The G-spot is not a spot

Decades of dissection have never found a discrete structure there.

The G-spot is not a spot

No anatomical study has ever isolated a separate organ at the place the G-spot is supposed to be. What is there is a region: the front wall of the vagina, where the internal arms and bulbs of the clitoris, the urethral sponge and a dense bed of nerves all sit within a centimetre or two of each other.

That is why the sensation is real while the anatomy is not. Pressing there presses the clitoris from the inside. The name is a historical accident — it honours Ernst Gräfenberg, who in 1950 described the sensitivity of the urethral region and never claimed to have found a button.

Sources

Kilchevsky et al., Journal of Sexual Medicine (2012); Gräfenberg (1950)

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