After Decades of Mystery, Has the G-Spot Been Found?

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 16:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Blue G ProcsilasA surgeon claims to have found the fabled organ, but skeptics say not so fast For decades, researchers have argued over the existence of the G-spot, a supersensitive spongy organ on the front vaginal wall that many women report causes vaginal, rather than clitoral, orgasms. Now, a cosmetic surgeon in Florida says he's finally found the G-spot in a dissected cadaver, but rather than settling the question of the G-spot once and for all, the new findings are kicking off a new round of debate. Adam Ostrzenski, a gynecological surgeon who specializes in cosmetic procedures in St. Petersburg, Florida, published his headline-grabbing study today in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. In it, he describes finding the organ during a dissection of an 83-year-old female cadaver in Poland. Ostrzenski describes the G-spot as a bluish, grape-like mass housed in a small, see-through sac inside the front...

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