Meet the Scientists Who Think the G-Spot Doesn't Exist

I'm not surprised when politicians, religious leaders, military chiefs, mafia bosses, corporate CEOs or media pundits make ignorant, misleading statements with great and somber certainty.  But when people who call themselves "scientists" spout toxic stupidities with similar conviction, it is rather more unnerving.  One current case in point: a team of British "scientists" at King's College London claims to have determined "fairly conclusively" that the G-spot does not exist.

Even before I finished reading about Dr. Andrea Virginia Burri (I'm not kidding; that's her given middle name) and Dr. Tim Spector's "G-Spot: Fiction or Friction" study, my personal Malarkey Meter was careening off the charts.  Burri and Spector's study is ill-conceived, poorly analyzed, illogically interpreted and -- dare I say -- just plain wrong.

Nonetheless, that "scientist" label must have gotten to me because, the first chance I had, there I was, licking my middle finger and hooking it about an inch or so into my vagina in the "come here" gesture, pressing that sensitive, spongy, bean-shaped area on the anterior wall, just to make sure it hadn't somehow vanished overnight.  Then, before I could say "bogus findings," I was enjoying a nice, pulsating G-spot orgasm.  Well, at least there are some silver linings in this black cloud of bad science.  Could we say that Burri and Spector's anti-G-spot report stimulated my G-spot orgasm that day?  Regardless, it was a case of friction, not fiction.

How did Drs. Burri and Spector reach their snarky, international, headline-screaming conclusion that the G-spot is "probably a myth," a "fiction" virtually forced upon innocent, G-spotless women by nefarious "magazines and sex therapists"?  They did a survey of 1,804 British female twins aged 23-83 who answered questionnaires about whether or not they had G-spots.  Or thought they had them.  Or could find them.  Or enjoy them.  Or something.  What a way to run a treasure hunt.

Dr. Burri Would Bury Our Hands in the Sand

Some of my colleagues have dismissed the survey participants just for being British.  I wouldn't disregard English lassies; they may keep their "stiff upper lip" even in the throes of passion, but they are just as likely to be able to locate their G-spots (or not) as American, French, Indian or Saudi Arabian women.  Indeed, 56% -- the majority! -- of Burri and Spector's particular lassies maintain they do indeed have G-spots and they know exactly where they are.  Apparently, that's not enough to stop Burri and Spector from issuing their proclamation that the G-spot is a "myth."

Burri goes even further, stating that she was eager to remove feelings of "inadequacy or underachievement" that might affect women who feared they lacked a G-spot."  She continued, "it is rather irresponsible to claim the existence of an entity that has never really been proven and pressurise [sic] women -- and men, too."

Is this science or is this nursery school for anxiety-ridden adults?  It certainly is going into research with a blatantly biased, not to mention silly, ax to grind.  It's reminiscent of 1850s-era gynecologist William Acton writing, "The majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled with sexual feelings of any kind." 

When are some people, especially people who call themselves "scientists," going to accept that making great love does not always come as naturally and easily as a teenage wet dream, just as making gourmet cuisine is not as simple as stuffing a Big Mac into your mouth?