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New Research Suggests G-Spot Doesn't Exist
krou writes to tell us that according to a new study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, a team from King's College London has found no evidence to suggest that the G-Spot actually exists, and they believe it may be a myth encouraged by magazines and sex therapists. The study performed is the largest of its kind, including some 1,800 women, and still was unable to find meaningful proof. Of course, the studies were probably all led by men, who everyone knows can't find the G-Spot anyway.
Fantastic methodology there! We won't actually study the person, we'll just ask them! What an awesome popularity contest.
In other news God does exist, 10/10 Christians guarantee it!
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
My wife claims she notices three distinctly different kinds of orgasms - clit, g-spot, and a more nebulous 'vaginal' one. She never had an orgasm until I figured out where her supposedly non-existent g-spot is - that opened the flood gates to a whole bunch of really good sex.
Does the g-spot exist? Who cares. Something in the general vicinity of where my wife thinks her g-spot is can be stimulated to bring her to orgasm. Happy wife -> more sex -> happy me!
-V-
Who can decide a priori? Nobody.
-Sartre
Drawing the conclusion that there is no G-spot because it isn't _genetically_ determined is ludicrous. It's like saying humans don't have fingerprints because identical twins have different patterns.
Of course, Bill "Cigar" Clinton didn't help matters much either with his antics and subsequent representation after the fact, which can tend to influence an entire generation as well.
If that's true, I am sure the current generation will be influenced by George "WMD" Bush's antics and subsequent representation after the facts...
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Unless those twins all had identical lovers, I don't see how this is relevant. The question is whether it exists at all.
Unfortunately, I suspect a properly scientific study would require some scientist to learn to find it, and then attempt to find it on each of the women in the study. But that affects the sample population quite a lot, I'd think -- down to "women who like casual sex with scientists."
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
I found that interesting, and very true.
Am I the only one that noticed that all they did for this "study" was ask twins if they both had G-spots? I mean, seriously?
This wasn't "research", this was a survey. Given the fact that finding the G-spot is largely dependant on your partner, two twins could easily have different experiences.
What they should have done is if one twin reported having a G-spot and the other did not, then test both women in the same spot (the area the first twin reported the g-spot to be located). If they are both stimulated the same, boom, you've found your g-spot. If only the twin who reported the g-spot showed increased stimulation, then you know it's all psychological.
You could then compare the results to known stimulators, like the clitoris, and see if the g-spot is really any better.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
Well, you be the judge. See if you can dig up an article that speaks about 5th-graders experimenting with oral sex as an "alternative" from newsprint 30 years ago. How about one that reports that over 40% of women have been unfaithful in their marriage. How about pictures of women in thong bikinis or underwear? Ever wonder that it's because of the in-your-face prevalence of sex in general that things like "purity rings" were invented less than 20 years ago? There's a reason we didn't have "virginity rituals" in the 1950s. Because we didn't need to. Yes, somehow, I do believe that men and women in general have broken out of MANY layers of sexual "shells" in the last 30 years.
I love the implication that because no one wrote about it, it obviously didn't happen. And what exactly is wrong with thong bikinis? Are you arguing that the human body is naturally sinful? I think that men and women in general have many more shells to break out of.
Divorce.
I believe the common counter argument here is that while divorce may be at an all time high, its not a result of more unfaithfulness. Rather that people cheat in roughly the same ratios as before, but now its more acceptable to divorce a cheating spouse. Especially if you're a woman capable of working now so you don't have to divorce your steady income with your husband.
And yes, this generation IS really that narcissistic, and unfortunately in debt up to their eyeballs trying to prove it. Sad, but true.
The irony of this quote is massive. We're not the generation that went our entire lives spending 110% of our income. The GenY'ers could never come close to the narcissism of the baby boomers.
"Well...date enough chicks over the years and I think you'll come to agree that most of them have some kind of a problem"
hmmm ... what is the one common factor in all your dates?
While it's impossible for you to realize that the common factor is indeed you, it is. I've been there done that. Everyone around me was insisting that I was "selecting" them, and I was insistent otherwise. What brought it into perspective for me was a conversation with a roomate. He was raised in a family full of alcoholics. And he claimed that he could "sense" if someone was an alcoholic. He couldn't explain how, other than just to say that he could. He suggested that it was mostly speech patterns and body language, but also said it was just a "feeling" Having spent time with him I think he indeed could quickly pick up on this. I have since come to the conclusion that we all to some extent or another intuit or know things about others around us that we are not always consciously aware of. In fact some of us are *Oblivious* to it. It's possible for a guy to be attracted to alcoholics or Borderline personalities and not even know it. People don't generally have sex with those they don't find attractive. In fact it's pretty much impossible to line up sex partners without a whole host of selection biases showing up. I now have a firm handle on whatever I was finding "attractive" in my old partners, and i don't find them attractive any longer (for the most part) Instead sometime's I'll see a woman and I'll think "now that right there, that's one crazy ass bitch. Come at you with a steak knife crazy...." And you know what, I would place good money on me being right. There are plenty of crazies of all different sorts out there, it's not hard to find lots and lots of them.