An article from this past Sunday (January 3rd) in The Sunday Times, What an anti-climax: G-spot is a myth, described a study done by British scientists which suggests that the G-spot seems to be subjective and may not exist at all.

The article states: "Andrea Burri, who led the research, said she was anxious to remove feelings of “inadequacy or underachievement” that might affect women who feared they lacked a G-spot.

“It is rather irresponsible to claim the existence of an entity that has never really been proven and pressurises women — and men, too,” she said."

But in fact, the area typically considered the G-spot is associated with an anatomical structure called the paraurethral sponge. Heather Corinna writes about the G-spot/paraurethral sponge on her sexuality education website, Scarleteen: This structure, whose existence is sometimes debated, is located on the ventral (belly-side) wall of the vagina, about 3cm (an inch and a half) in from the vaginal opening. Its texture is different from the rest of the vagina. It feels like a patch about 1 inch across with soft ridges. It's called the paraurethral sponge because the tissue is spongy, and it's near the paraurethral glands. The G-spot is more responsive to touch and pressure than the rest of the vagina, and many women find G-spot stimulation highly pleasurable.

The article also stated that 56% of all women report having a g-spot and g-spot orgasms. Which makes up about half, leaving the other half of all women who may claim they don't have one, or that they don't know.

But, like with any part of the body, or with any sexual act, women differ in how (and if at all) they like to be touched or stimulated. And perhaps the 44% of women who don't believe they have a g-spot or don't know if they do, simply just don't find g-spot stimulation pleasurable.

Maybe we should be wary of the conclusion that the g-spot doesn't exist at all, and also of the claim that certain women have a g-spot and others do not, and consider instead that women experience stimulation and pleasure differently and are turned on by different things. This includes the fact that their g-spot doesn't necessarily have to be among their most pleasurable erogenous zones, and there's nothing wrong or weird about that.

We've created this climate of expectation around the g-spot to be this ultimate pleasure zone or direct route to the most amazing orgasm ever in all women no matter what, but that isn't necessarily the case. And it's that assumption that may be alienating or 'pressurizing' for women (and their partners) when it shouldn't be, rather than the acknowledgement of g-spots existing at all.