Researcher finds G-spot, but doubt lingers

A researcher has claimed to find evidence of the so-called Grafenberg Spot (G-spot), the body part that supposedly causes intense orgasms among women, but has failed to fully satisfy doubters.

 

Dr. Adam Ostrzenski of the Institute of Gynecology Inc. in St. Petersburg, Florida based his finding on his examination of an 83-year-old woman's cadaver, according to a report on The Huffington Post. 'It extends like an accordion'

 

"It's a grape-like structure... Nothing else looks similar," The Huffington Post quoted him as saying.

 

He described the famed orgasmic spot as a region of tissue, about a third of an inch long and one-tenth of an inch wide, located on the anterior vaginal wall.

 

The woman whose cadaver was used in the research had died from head trauma.

 

The new findings were published April 25 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

 

Ostrzenski found a structure sitting within a sac of protective tissue. After a seven-hour dissection to remove the tissue from the sac, he found the tissue extended greatly in its size.

 

"When you remove it, it extends like an accordion," he said, likely because the structure is composed of erectile tissue.

 

But Ostrzenski noted he did not look at the tissue under a microscope as the permission he had to work with the body did not allow such an examination.

 

He said such a microscopic analysis could have led to a stronger conclusion that this tissue was indeed the G-spot.

 

Lingering skepticism

 

But The Huffington Post said other experts were skeptical that the findings truly revealed the G-spot.

 

"This study adds to the debate, but as a whole, it doesn’t contribute new information" to what we know about the G-spot, said Dr. Amichai Kilchevsky, a urology resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut.

 

Kilchevsky recently led an analysis of 60 years of studies that had attempted to identify the G-spot.

 

He said the spot does not exist, and the new findings do not change his opinion.

 

The report said about a half-dozen of the studies Kilchevsky reviewed were done on corpses, some of them involving 20 to 30 bodies, and the results were mixed.

 

In some of those studies, researchers had looked at the tissue on a microscopic level to find nerve enervation of the anterior vaginal wall, he said.

 

"Some studies showed that there are more nerve endings in a specific regions, other studies didn't," he said.

 

On the other hand, Ostrzenski's study included "one cadaver, where they dissected an unknown structure, did no testing on the actual organ, and had no background information on the patient before her death," Kilchevsky said.

 

More detailed analysis

 

Kilchevsky said a more detailed analysis could have revealed more about the tissue, including whether certain chemicals associated with female sexual arousal were present.

 

However, he said researchers are more likely to learn from dynamic studies of living patients — such as functional MRIs, which can show what happens to tissue when it is stimulated.

 

Kilchevsky also said the tissue that Ostrzenski found could perhaps be the internal portion of the clitoris. — TJD, GMA News