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How to Find Your G-Spot

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The confusion here is that many people still don’t know what the clitoris is actually shaped like. It’s not entirely their fault; this has long been an understudied area in health research.

“Female sexual function is very complex and is probably not given enough attention in research or clinical medicine,” says Fiona Reid, MD, an honorary lecturer at the University of Manchester in England. She coauthored a paper on public understanding of female genital anatomy, published in the International Urogynecology Journal in 2021.

It wasn’t until 2005 that a study led by the Australian urologist Helen E. O’Connell, MD, mapped the anatomy of the clitoris, Dr. Reid explains.

“The thing about the clitoris is it’s actually the same length as a typical penis, but it’s shaped like a wishbone,” says Megan Pollock, a sex therapist certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, who is based outside Houston. The “nub,” as Pollock calls it, which is visible from the outside, is often thought of as the entire clitoris — when really, “it’s just a very small part of it,” she explains.

And you wouldn’t have a G-spot if it weren’t for the clitoris. What has typically been described as the G-spot is “the tissue that separates the vaginal wall from the clitoris,” Pollock says. “And so the clitoris is just on the other side of it.”

Stimulating this area “also might be stimulating the approximate 8,000 nerves that are part of the clitoris,” notes Rachel Needle, PsyD, a codirector of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes in West Palm Beach, Florida. “So the G-spot is just really the internal shafts of the clitoral complex.” A G-spot orgasm, in other words, might simply be the result of a knock-knock-knock on the other side of the vaginal wall.

Another theory: The so-called G-spot may not be a “spot” at all. Research suggests that what we know as the G-spot might be better referred to as the clitourethrovaginal, or CUV, complex.

“In this area, the clitoris, urethra, and anterior vaginal wall interplay, and when this area is stimulated, this can increase or enhance orgasm for some women,” Dr. Rullo says. Think of it more as a G-zone, she adds.

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