The
so called "G Spot" is perhaps the most misunderstood
area of three seemingly interconnected subjects: female ejaculation,
the urethral glands and ducts, and the "G spot."
This term was first introduced
to the public at large in the book, The G-Spot and Other Recent
Discoveries About Human Sexuality. It referred to the previously
mentioned 1950 article in the International Journal of Sexology
in which Grafenberg also wrote about erotic sensitivity along the
anterior vaginal wall. Grafenberg clearly stated that it was his
opinion that what he felt through the anterior vaginal wall
was erectile tissue.
He stated that during
sexual arousal "the female urethra begins to enlarge and can be
felt easily. It swells out greatly at the end of orgasm. The most
stimulating part is located at the posterior urethra where it arises
from the neck of the bladder." 13 Others have noted that
the size and development of these tissues will vary greatly from
woman to woman and may change during arousal.
The area on the upper
wall of the vagina has been popularly but erroneously called the
G-Spot and would be better labeled as the G Crest. It is
the popular media that has promulgated the notion of a "spot" on
the anterior wall of the vagina itself. The search for a "spot"
on the anterior wall of the vagina, as opposed to searching
for the urethral
glands through the anterior wall may be contributing to the
difficulty of finding the "G spot" and the controversy as to whether
it exists at all.

There is
great potential value in renaming the "G spot" as the "G
Crest." In that terminology, the "G" would be retained, as
reference to and as credit to the important work of Grafenberg.
The word 'Crest' is also more useful as a description than
"spot" because the swollen female urethral glands feel more like
a protruding ridge than a spot (thus enabling her partner to locate
the area more readily with less confusion) thus lessening some of
the confusion there seems to be in finding it. Furthermore, the
word 'Crest' also invokes an image of rising sensual/sexual
pleasure.
There have
been studies that have
indicated that the stimulation of the 'G Crest' by itself
may induce an orgasm that feels very pleasurable, although different
than a clitoral orgasm. As Grafenberg previously observed, this
may induce an expulsion of fluid through the urethra at orgasm.
In 1988, Milan Zaviacic, M. D., Ph.D., head of the Institute of
Pathology of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, examined
and stimulated the 'G Crests' of 27 women patients who volunteered
for his study. Ten of the 27 women (37%) were induced to have urethral
expulsions, with a wide variation in the amount of stimulation required
before the expulsion."14
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