1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff Mom Never told you? 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: From housetop works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: I'm Kristen and I'm Molly Well. I have a little 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: suggestion for Cosmopolitan Magazines. Okay, if they're out there listening, yes, 6 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: Cosmo editors here here. I think that Cosmo needs to 7 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: undergo a name change, give credit where credit is due, 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: and rename the magazine Grayfenburg. Greyfenburg, Graffenburg. Like You'll be 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: in the check outline with your food, You'll be browsing, 10 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: You'll be like the RhoD and you're like, oh when 11 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: you Grafenburg. Jessica Biel's on the cover of Grayfenburg Gotta 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: pick one up. I mean, I don't know if it's 13 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: the most successful business idea you've ever had, but it's 14 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 1: probably the top. I'm just saying that they've got Cosmo 15 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: has Graefenburg to thank for selling a lot of magazines 16 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: throughout the year. Because I'm referring to Mr Ernst Graefenburg, 17 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 1: doctor doctor, thank you. Doctor Ernst Graefenburg, German gynecologist who 18 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty came up with a little something we 19 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: like to call the G spot. That's right, you might 20 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: have no, sen Graefenberg starts with the G. He did 21 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: not name it the G spot. He was not He 22 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: was not a vain man, right. Uh. It was named 23 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: after him later, but yes, in nineteen fifty he described, 24 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna quote here the existence of an allegedly highly 25 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: sensitive area on the anterior wall of the human vagina, 26 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: halfway between the pubic bone and the cervix, along the 27 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: course of the urethra. And it seemed to Graefenburg that 28 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: this little area could provoke particularly intense orgasms in some women. 29 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: So then in the eighties we got a gal named 30 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: Beverly Whipple, who really gets where Graefenberg's coming from. It 31 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: could have, just to the living called the Whipple spot. 32 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: It could have been the Whipple spot. But again, Whipple 33 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: is not a vain woman, just like Grafenberg's exactly. And 34 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: so she and her colleague decided that they should name 35 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: this little area in honor of Ernst Dr Ernst. So 36 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: they called it the ge Spot. And since then Cosmopolitan 37 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: magazine has, I mean, every month, it seems like every 38 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: month they tell you that they'll help you find it 39 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,119 Speaker 1: once come for all. I mean, I don't know where 40 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, twenty five tips to twenty eight steps 41 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: to finding your GeSe spot. Yeah, it's everywhere. And so 42 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: now there's a scultural idea that women have the secret 43 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: button inside their vaginas that will give them explosive, oh 44 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: my god, Samantha in Sex and the City orgasms that 45 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: will just produce fireworks of pleasure, and a lot of women, 46 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: I don't know where it is, and a lot of 47 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,839 Speaker 1: researchers will come along and say this doesn't exist. This 48 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: is horse hockey. Guys are crazy gals and your spots, 49 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: and that just causes more researchers to say, oh, you 50 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: just must be really bad at sex and you've never 51 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: found a G spot exactly. There has been a lot 52 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: of debate about whether or not the G spot exists. 53 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: I mean, Molly, I'm sure that you've had conversation with 54 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: some gal pals over brunch about things like this. Yes, 55 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: I live in a Sex in the City episode, Chris, 56 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 1: I'm always talking about the G spot. We've got a 57 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: brunch like four times a week. I don't know how, um, 58 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: but this has been conversations that women will have among themselves. 59 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: You know, some women claim that it happens, some say no. 60 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: And then the men, the poor men, are like, just 61 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: tell me where it is? Yeah, where do I go? 62 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: Is that what I'll do? I I don't know. So 63 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: g spot. I feel like has has really just it 64 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: can be this looming shadow in the bedroom because no, really, 65 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: no one really knows whether or not it's there or not. 66 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: You can kind of feel its presence a little bit, 67 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: and that's the ghost of the ghost of brief of 68 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: burg is true. So let's get down to business, Molly 69 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: and studies the only thing we know how to do. 70 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: Let's look at some studies. Let's look at some studies, 71 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: because I mean, that's the thing. If you want to 72 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: prove something exists, let's let's put it under scientific scrutiny. 73 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: And the results are decidedly mixed. And it's funny how 74 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: as soon as a study is released it devolves into 75 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: playground taunts over whether the researcher is just apprud because 76 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: I think for a long time people research is really 77 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: sided with Whipple. They were like, okay, yeah, sure, there's 78 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: a there's this area. You know, there's this area. It's 79 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: you can find it. And I think it made a 80 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: lot of women feel like failures because they'd go into 81 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: sex therapy and c I can't find this right. And 82 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: then in I believe it was two thousand eight, we 83 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: had an Italian scientist who claims that he has found 84 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: an anatom called difference between women who have the elusive 85 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: G spot and who don't have it. Emmanuelle Jeannini is 86 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: the name of this researcher. And what he did was 87 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: he used vaginal ultrasound and he had a group of 88 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,799 Speaker 1: women who said that they had had a Vachel orgasm, 89 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: and he had a group of women who said they 90 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: had not. These women claimed that they had not found 91 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: their G spot, and when he did the ultrasound low 92 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: and behold, he found nothing to indicate that they did 93 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: have the G spot. So he was like, of course 94 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 1: these women haven't had these kind of orgasms because the 95 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: tissue is not there. That the anatomy that Graefenberg described 96 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: is not president these women based on the ultrasound, whereas 97 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: the other women did have tissue that was thicker in 98 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,679 Speaker 1: the area that Graefenberg described. So people said, huzza, there's 99 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: the G spot. We found it, and you can go, go, 100 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,679 Speaker 1: get an ultrasound. You'll find out once and for all 101 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: if it exists for you. And if it doesn't, you know, 102 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: find another way to enjoy yourself in the bedroom. Yeah 103 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: someone someone don't. No, no bigie, no big whoop. Now, 104 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: of course this gets an outcry. Some people are like, 105 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: oh wait, you can't just do an ultrasound on a 106 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 1: woman who has never had an orgasm in that area. 107 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: It's it's more like a muscle that you have to 108 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 1: build up. And so, uh, these women haven't built up 109 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: their muscle, haven't exercised their juice spot, they haven't taken 110 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: her juice spot for a walk? Is that? Yeah? They 111 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: need to. I need to take it to the gym 112 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: more often. And like pomp Iron, you know how your 113 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: muscles get bigger. There's only one way to make your 114 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: g spot bigger. Take it to the sexy gym around 115 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: the corner. And uh so that's what the that's what 116 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: the outcry of that one was is that it would um, 117 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: it would be dangerous to tell a woman she didn't 118 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: have it when she might have the potential to have it. 119 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: But then this year, earlier this year, the Brits came 120 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: along and they just reigned on the Italian parade. Researchers 121 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: from King's College in London surveyed more than eighteen hundred 122 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: British women and what they did was is survey pairs 123 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: of identical and non identical twins to find out whether 124 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: or not they had G spots, with the hypothesis that 125 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: if a G spot is a trait that exists, it 126 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: should be heritable. It should be an anatomical thing that 127 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: shows up in people who have the same genes, so 128 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: you would expect identical twins to both have it if 129 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: one of them has it. So what they did is 130 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: they asked the women do you believe I'm quoting the 131 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,119 Speaker 1: question here, do you believe you have a so called 132 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: G spot a small area the size of a twenty 133 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: pence coin on the front wall of your vagina that 134 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: is sensitive to deep pressure. And they are very specific 135 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: because they didn't want, you know, women to think that 136 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: the G spot was something else or you know, be confused. 137 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: They were as precise as possible. So it's a self 138 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: reported study, which is usually the problem with any G 139 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: spot study is that it's up to the women to 140 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: determine if she's had it um and then they asked 141 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: a lot of questions about sex, and uh, what was 142 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: weird is they didn't even participants didn't even know why 143 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: they were answering all these questions. I think that's kind 144 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: of funny, is if you if you were just in 145 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: a study and your all of a sudden, you're answering 146 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: all these questions about your g spot and sex. Maybe 147 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: the Brits are different than me. Well, but maybe they 148 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: didn't want to influence the outcome, especially because it was 149 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: of course not But it's just, you know, it's I 150 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: always try to imagine myself in these studies, Kristen, and 151 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: this is one where I think I would have been 152 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: weird at out. But if if there are twenty page 153 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: much of a join. But if you're a twin, maybe 154 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: you're used to weird studies because people love to study twins. 155 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: I digress um. So they were asking all these questions 156 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: and the there was no connection. They found that this 157 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: could not be something that was hereditary or ordained by 158 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: something in your d n A because one twin would 159 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: have it and one twin wouldn't. So they're saying, if 160 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: a woman believes she has it, there's more psychological factors 161 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: than purely physiological factors, and some of those factors are 162 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: kind of interesting. I mean, I do think this study 163 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: was helpful in determining, you know, how you could perhaps 164 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: discover a G spot. Because one interesting thing to me 165 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: was that the women who reported having a G spot, 166 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 1: and of the women did report having a spot, so 167 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 1: that's a slight majority, slight majority the people who said 168 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: that they had a G spot. They had also done 169 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: a lot of personality testing on these people that those 170 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: people who claimed they had one scored higher on the 171 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: personality domains of extra version and openness to new experiences, 172 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 1: and they are more comfortable discussing sex than the women 173 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: who claimed to have no G spot. So there's something 174 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: about being at least open to the idea that the 175 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: G spot exists, perhaps a little friskier that could perhaps 176 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: help you, or just extroverted in general. I mean, if 177 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: you were, you know, open to new experiences, not just 178 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: within the bedroom but just in life, perhaps you're someone 179 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: who is more willing to explore and find it. But 180 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: at the same time, the researchers did conclude that there 181 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: was no definable trigger for these or gasms, even though 182 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: there were all these associations like the that fifty who 183 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: said yes, they do have spot inside their vaginal wall 184 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: intended to be you know, younger and more adventurous, like 185 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 1: you said, and a little bit more sexually active than 186 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: the ones who said that they didn't, but sexually active, 187 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: but not necessarily in a Samantha Jones sex in the 188 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: city way, because the women who had G spots also 189 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: claimed more satisfaction with their relationships, right, And probably that 190 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: makes sense because if you are with a partner for 191 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: a long time, it gives you perhaps more of a 192 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: chance to experiment around and find what works, and you 193 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: really get into someone learns what you exactly. Um So, 194 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 1: I think that's kind of interesting that, you know, they 195 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: found personality characteristics associated with this, but other people did 196 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 1: not find that so interesting. And along came France. O 197 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: man to uh shut those bricks right down. France was 198 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: not having it, y'all. They like world War three could 199 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: start because all these we've got Italy so far, we've 200 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: got Britain, we've got France. What if they go to 201 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: war over the G spot? Wars have been fought for 202 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: sillier reasons. These medical researchers even had something called a 203 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: g Day conference, okay to discuss these findings and uh, 204 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: a French kind ecologists was quoted as saying, I don't 205 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: want to stigmatize at all, but I think the Protestant, liberal, 206 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: Anglo sex and character means you're very pragmatic. That has 207 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: to be a cause. There has to be a cause 208 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: for everything, a gene for everything, and it's totalitarian there. 209 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: These French. French people were so outrage that they said that, 210 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: you know, the chance that the G spot does not exist, 211 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: that it is a subjective thing in women's brains, is totalitarian. 212 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: People are serious about the G spot. Yeah, and it 213 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: just all these awful British stereotypes came out of these 214 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 1: French people's mouths, like, oh, you guys are so buttoned up, 215 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: it's so rainy, you just want to have some tea. 216 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: And the funny thing is over in the States. The conversation, 217 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: I would say about g spots was incredibly frivolous because 218 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: we do associate it with things like Cosmo magazines. So 219 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: to read that these British and French researchers are going 220 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: back and forth about this and really heated conversations is 221 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: kind of astounding. It's kind of funny. Yeah, and I 222 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: think the best way to the best, the best referee 223 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: I saw when we were researching this was all Beverly 224 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: Whipple herself, because they went back to her and they 225 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: were like, Okay, decades ago, you came up with the spot, 226 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 1: you named it, no one confined it. What do you 227 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: have to say for yourself? Because Whipple originally conducted a 228 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: study of four women and found this G spot. I 229 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: think in all of them everyone, Yeah, she doesn't need 230 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: any more ultrasounds or French studies. She's done with it. 231 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: So Whipple comes back and says, Okay, maybe it does 232 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: need a little bit more research, but maybe maybe we're 233 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: putting too much, too much emphasis on old Griffenberg. She 234 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: was like, let's let's move bond. Yeah, let's name guys 235 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: that was the early eighties. Come on, guys, let's name 236 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: spots after all sorts of Germans. She essentially says that 237 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: this is not the be all end all of a 238 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: sexual experience, right, because a lot of times when we 239 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: we read about the G spot, it's this, Yeah, it's 240 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: like unlocking the door to um, you know, the ultimate 241 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: pleasures though, the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail, Thank you 242 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: like find it, find it, find it, find it, and 243 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: that becomes the goal of sex. She's saying that takes 244 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: all the fun out of sex. Right, Perhaps we are 245 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 1: searching so hard for the G spot at the expense 246 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 1: of other forms of sexual pleasure, because yes there are. 247 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: You know that the female anatomy is not limited to 248 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: the G spot, clearly, and I think as long as 249 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: we can keep that in mind, that it's not the 250 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: holy grail, that there are other other prizes to be 251 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 1: one that we can let the researchers hash it out. 252 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 1: I will say the one good thing I take away 253 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 1: from all those research is at least people are discussing 254 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: the female orgasm and figuring out ways that women can 255 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: have more fun in the bedroom. And I think that 256 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: when you consider that Graefenberg only found this area in 257 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: nine that means that female pleasure hasn't really been on 258 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: the mind of scientists that long. So where they're bound 259 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: to be some battles. Let them battle it out, but 260 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: let the research. Let the scientists hash this out. But 261 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: let's all, I think, take the advice of Whipple and remember, 262 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: as she said in an article with the Associated Press, 263 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: the biggest sexual organ is really the brain. Well, to 264 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: go back to our original question, the question of the 265 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:37,359 Speaker 1: ages of whether the G spot exists. Here's my take, Molly. 266 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: If there is anything that I've learned from all these studies, 267 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: if there's anything conclusive that have come out of all 268 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: these studies searching for whether women do or don't have 269 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: a G spot, it seems to be this. Every vagina 270 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: is a little bit different. True, you know, the landscape, 271 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: the terrain is is different inside us all, so of 272 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: just have fun out there and play, say fun, say fun. 273 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: So now I will leave it up to our brilliant listeners. 274 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: Let us know your thoughts. G rated please on the 275 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: G spot, g rated one spot. That's right, it can 276 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: be done, folks, Uh moms, stuff at How stuff works 277 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: is the email And in the meantime, let's read a 278 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: couple Well, I have an email here from Melanie and 279 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: it's an older email. I've gotten around to reading it yet, 280 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: and it's about one of my favorite favorite podcasts ever, 281 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: Women in Magic, and I'm still working on my magical 282 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: career for everyone keeping track, Melanie writes. Melanie is a 283 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: professional children's entertainer. She does She belongs to several professional 284 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: guilds for party entertainers, clowns, magicians, and she puts on 285 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: shows where she's Mellie Mood the clown. It was a 286 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: great email. I'm just gonna be part of it, she writes. 287 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: In the general industry of party entertainment, I actually think 288 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: there are more women than men doing it professionally. The 289 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: reasons because children are customers and they feel more comfortable 290 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: with a woman than a man. I think this is 291 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: kind of sad, but it's a fact of life. For example, 292 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: my cousin John Giggles, the clown who was a fatuous balloonaris, 293 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: is unable to get near as many gigs as me, 294 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: simply because our target audience, usually three to eight, are 295 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: taught to fear men, and no male party entertainer should 296 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: ever do face painting. Right or wrong. People don't want 297 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: strange men touching their kids, but they're fine with a 298 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: strange woman like me. Kind of ironic. That being said, 299 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: the men who do manage to break into this field 300 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: usually is the stereotypical male magician like you described on 301 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: your podcast, make about three times the amount of money 302 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: for the same amount of work. Oftentimes, a customer will 303 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: call an agency and ask for prices for a party entertainer. 304 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: They are presented with a scale from the cheapest a 305 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: costume character or a clown, which is the most expensive 306 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: a professional magician. But what most people don't know is 307 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: that often the person of the costume is a magician himself. 308 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: If he didn't get a higher paying gig that day, 309 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: and if he did, then he calls one of us 310 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: clowns to see if we are free to take the 311 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: lower paying gig. Now she does, right that. A closer 312 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: relative field to this magic that I I love is 313 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: stage hypnotism, which is really starting to see a search 314 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: in women. And what I love about that is that 315 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: the women who have observed during stage hypnotism don't sacrifice 316 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: any feminine in their performances. Their jokes are feminine, their 317 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 1: mannerisms are feminine and not just an essential way either. 318 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: Very cool, and I agree that I'm very cool. Thank 319 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: you for writing million movie clown, Million movie clown. All right, Well, 320 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: if you have an email again, our addresses mom stuff 321 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: at how stuff works dot com. You can also find 322 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: us on Facebook and Twitter. Finally, we also have a blog, 323 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: I get is stuff mone ever told you at how 324 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: stuff works dot com for moralness and thousands of other topics. 325 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: If is it how stuff works dot com. 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