Sex File: Hype about the G-spot a huge disservice to women

Forget G-spots. Let's focus on the C-spot and close the orgasm gap once and for all

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THE G-spot is in the news again, and yet again it is proving elusive, with a team of scientists from Istanbul concluding that evidence for it existing is "scant, insufficient and weak".

The mysterious erogenous zone was identified in the 1940s by the gynaecologist Ernst Grafenberg (hence the G) who, rumour has it, used his wife's friends as "guinea pigs" for his research. In 1981 the American researchers Dr Frank Addiego and Beverly Whipple published a paper in the Journal of Sexual Medicine describing the case of a woman who had learnt that stimulation of an erotically sensitive area on her anterior vaginal wall led to the expulsion of a type of prostatic fluid. The pair went on to write an international bestseller, and the G-spot was suddenly a household word.