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A team of researchers and doctors believe they’ve done what your college roommate Chad could never do, find the G-Spot.
In a new study published to the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, the researchers looked at post-surgery sexual activity in patients who underwent anterior colporrhaphy operations. This particular surgery takes place in the region where the fabled G-Spot (Gräfenberg spot) is thought or believed to exist.
The University of Colorado Department of Urogynecology calls Colporrhaphy “a minimally invasive surgical procedure that repairs and strengthens the vaginal wall after a pelvic organ prolapse (POP).” Researchers from Turkey sought to “investigate sexual function after anterior vaginal wall surgery.”
Scientists Find The G-Spot … Or Did They?
For the study, they looked at 89 patients who had this surgery over a 7-month span between May to December, 2021. Researchers examined the patient’s sexual function prior to surgery and then again six months after the surgery to the area where the G-Spot is found.
What the researchers found is after this particular surgery that impacts the region where the G-Spot is believed to be located, orgasms decrease. In the study’s conclusion, they wrote “Based on the results of our study, we found a remarkable decrease in orgasm in these patients.” They went on to add “larger-scale studies may be designed to reveal the importance of this region in sexual function.”
To spell that out in simpler terms, when surgery was performed on the area where the G-Spot exists, or is believed to be found, the frequency of orgasms went down. This leads researchers to believe that surgery disrupts the G-Spot in some manner leading to a decrease in sexual satisfaction. One limitation with this study is it only looked at patients 6 months after surgery and not at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. More data would certainly be beneficial.
Is The Gräfenberg spot real? How did it get its name?
Brooke Kato at the NYPost astutely points out that the scientific community is divided on where the G-Spot is and what to even call it. A study last year has led the charge to rename it from a ‘spot’ to a ‘zone’. Claiming that the G-Spot is actually 5 erogenous zones and the ‘locations, functions, and triggers vary form person to person.’
The G-Spot got its name from German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg. The ‘G’ stands for Gräfenberg but the term was actually coined decades after he passed away. It was coined in 1981 by Addiego et al. in honor of 1950 research from Ernst Gräfenberg who, while researching urethral stimulation, wrote “An erotic zone always could be demonstrated on the anterior wall of the vagina along the course of the urethra.”
So that’s how the world ended up with the term ‘G-Spot’ and it has stuck ever since.
And, of course it is real. The reality, as the scientific community has suggested, is that it’s not like a kneecap or pupil that can be pinpointed to an exact location. It varies from woman to woman and as stated above, the ‘zones’ often have different triggers.