Overview
The Grafenberg spot (G-Spot) is said to be a sensitive area just behind the front wall of the vagina, between the back of the pubic bone and the cervix. Beverly Whipple, a certified sex educator and counselor, and John D. Perry, an ordained minister, psychologist and sexologist, named the G-Spot after gynecologist Ernest Grafenberg (1881-1957).
Dr. Grafenberg introduced the term "G-Spot" in the book, "The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality" in the 1980s. It refers to an article from 1950 in the International Journal of Sexology in which he wrote about erotic sensitivity along the anterior vaginal wall.
Dr. Grafenberg was the first modern physician to claim that when this spot is stimulated during sex through vaginal penetration of some kind, some women have an orgasm. This orgasm may include a gush of fluid from the urethra (sometimes called "female ejaculation”). This kind of orgasm is often called a "vaginal orgasm" because it is different from the "clitoral orgasm," which is caused by stimulation of the clitoris. For more information on how some females reach vaginal orgasm, click here.
