{"id":25073,"date":"2010-01-03T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/03\/science-there-is-no-g-spot-so\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:54:14","slug":"science-there-is-no-g-spot-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/science-there-is-no-g-spot-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: There is no g-spot, so stop looking for it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study, 56 percent of the women interviewed in a sample of 1800 claimed that they had a &#8220;g-spot&#8221; which is an area inside the vagina with increased sensitivity with respect to sexual arousal.<\/p>\n<p>(Added:  See<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/neurotopia\/2010\/01\/friday_weird_science_the_reali.php\"> THIS write up<\/a> of the original research)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut a twin study showed that when one twin claimed whether or not to have a g-spot, the other twin did not make the same claim at the frequency one would expect if the g-spot was the expression of a genetic trait with straight forward Mendelian inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the scientists conclude,  the g-spot does not exist. At all.<\/p>\n<p>How can this be? How can 56 percent of the women in a study claim that they have one, but there simply isn&#8217;t one?<\/p>\n<p>There are several possibilities, including:<\/p>\n<p>1) There is no g-spot and these 900 or so women only think they have one. But they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>2) The g-spot is not a simple Mendelian genetic trait, but rather, exists because of some combination of genetics and environment.  This is a family blog so we won&#8217;t discuss what is meant here by &#8220;environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3) The g-spot is a thing &#8230; trying to be not specific here about what it is &#8230; that is real, but does not exist in any way because of genetics.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>My source is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/lifestyle\/the-other-side\/mysterious-g-spot-just-a-myth-study\/story-e6frfhk6-1225815737655\">this press report<\/a>, hat tip to Virgil Samms, who noted that perhaps it is just that <em>twins<\/em> don&#8217;t have g-spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study, 56 percent of the women interviewed in a sample of 1800 claimed that they had a &#8220;g-spot&#8221; which is an area inside the vagina with increased sensitivity with respect to sexual arousal. (Added: See THIS write up of the original research)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4441,3047,4442,184,564],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6wp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}