The term "G Spot" was first introduced to the public at large in the book, The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality. It referred to a 1950 article in the International Journal of Sexology in which Dr. Ernest Gräfenberg wrote about erotic sensitivity along the anterior vaginal wall.

While many people have read or heard about Gräfenberg, few have read his actual words. In reality, Gräfenberg only uses the word "spot" twice and he uses it to make the opposite point to the way it has been popularly used.

He states that "there is no spot in the female body, from which sexual desire could not be aroused. . . .

Innumerable erotogenic spots are distributed all over the body, from where sexual satisfaction can be elicited; these are so many that we can almost say that there is no part of the female body which does not give sexual response, the partner has only to find the erotogenic zones."

What has been popularly but erroneously called the G "spot" is the area on the upper wall of the vagina, through which the urethral or "Skene's" glands can be felt. It is the media, which picked up the term "G spot" because of the book, that has promulgated the notion of a "spot" on the anterior wall of the vagina itself.

The search for a "spot" on the anterior wall of the vagina, as opposed to searching for the urethral glands through the anterior wall may be contributing to the difficulty of finding a single G "spot" and the controversy as to whether it exists at all.

This article was written by Gary Schubach Ed.D.,A.C.S

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