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Posted by Charlotte on January 3, 2010
Tags: feminism, G-Spot, News, sex
The Times splashed a piece recently using a science paper to claim the G-Spot was a big myth. I just read it and was happy to find it held as little weight as I’d imagined – rather than any physical inspections for the spot, the researchers simply asked women to subjectively answer as to if they thought they had one.
The method of questioning 1,804 British women aged 23-83 in their belief of having a G-spot to prove or disprove its existence seems a little thin to me. In the research which “proved” the G-Spots existance, at least they took a look at some vagina’s to search for the illusive cluster of nerves.
If the lead researcher already thinks that the G-Spot is an imaginary friend, and then only treats it as a subjective erogenous zone then she’s done little other than work to confirm her belief, rather than dig deep into the issue and disprove the physical existence. Unless there’s research that has been conveniently ignored here.
Regardless of what can or cannot be proved, how much do we need are our G-Spots? Are they just a tool to medicalise women’s bodies and sexuality once again?
Tags for this post:feminism, G-Spot, News, sex
January 4th, 2010 at 12:07 am
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