“Now for the first time gynaecological scans have revealed clear anatomical differences between women who claim to experience vaginal orgasms involving a G spot and those who don’t. It might mean that there is a G spot, after all. What’s more, a simple test could tell you if it’s time to give up the hunt, or if your partner just needs to try harder. ‘For the first time it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has a G spot or not,’ says Emmanuele Jannini at the University of L’Aquila in Italy, who carried out the research. Jannini had already found biochemical markers relating to heightened sexual function in tissue between the vagina and urethra, where the G spot is said to be located. The markers include PDES — an enzyme that processes the nitric oxide responsible for triggering male erections. However, the team had been unable to link the presence of these markers to the ability to experience a vaginal orgasm — that is, an orgasm triggered by stimulation of the front vaginal wall without any simultaneous stimulation of the clitoris. So Jannini’s team took a different approach, and used vaginal ultrasound to scan the entire urethrovaginal space — the area of tissue between the vagina and urethra thought to house the G spot. The team scanned nine women who said they had vaginal orgasms and 11 who said they didn’t. They found that tissue in the urethrovaginal space was thicker in the first group of women. This means, says Jannini, that ‘women without any visible evidence of a G spot cannot have a vaginal orgasm’. Other researchers question whether what Jannini says is the G spot is a distinct structure or the internal part of the clitoris. The urethrovaginal space is rich in blood vessels, glands, muscle fibres, nerves, and — in some women — a remnant of the embryological prostate called the Skene’s glands. Some researchers have suggested that the Skene’s glands are involved in triggering vaginal orgasms and, more controversially, enable a small number of women to ejaculate (see ‘Can women ejaculate or not?’).” — New Scientist (US)

(Thanks to Geek Space for the link.)

Here is an abstract of the actual research article, “Measurement of the Thickness of the Urethrovaginal Space in Women with or without Vaginal Orgasm.” You can read the whole thing if you want to pay for it. The New Scientist article is full of fascinating information, though, and you may be content just to read that. There is a particularly good bit toward the end about increasing the size of the g spot by working it like a muscle. And don’t miss that sidebar about female ejaculation in Rwanda.

However interesting all that is, it’s clearly not perverse. What may be perverse is the fact that researchers are still, in 2008, trying to nail down the female anatomy. Think about it. People have been dissecting cadavers for hundreds of years. Scientists have been imaging brains, nerves, bones, and cells for a century. You can buy textbooks on the morphology, anatomy, histology, and chemistry of the body. There are detailed accounts of how the eye sees and the ear hears. But how a woman orgasms? It’s practically the final frontier of the human organism. If researchers can figure out that and the elusive issue of how the seemingly non-physical mind interacts with the physical brain, there won’t be any mysteries left. We’ll understand “our bodies, ourselves.”

This is all especially ironic given that we live in the Information Age. It’s apparent that we don’t have all the information we think we have. Someday in the future there may be sexual beings who possess a scarily complete knowledge of the workings of the body. “I can play you the way Mozart played a piano,” your lover will say. And when they look back at our sex manuals, our aphrodisiac cookbooks, our internet porn, they’ll laugh at how we ever dared to call ourselves anything other than an extension of the dark ages.

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