There is a relationship between three structures (that is, the clitoris, urethral sponge, and anterior vaginal wall) that has led researchers to identify what is called the clitourethrovaginal (CUV) complex. One disruptive article that was published in Nature Reviews (2014) suggested that when the CUV is “properly stimulated during penetration,
[this]
could induce orgasmic responses.”
However, there is more to this. In 2022, a Sexual Medicine Review Journal editorial explained that the G-spot isn’t
actually made up of three structures, but it is actually made up of five! which are the clitoral crura, the clitoral bulb, the periurethral glands, the urethra, and the anterior vaginal wall. As the number keeps going up, this suggests we should acknowledge that the G-spot is not just a “spot,” but an actual zone.
“We suggest the current term “G-spot” is misleading and therefore inappropriate,” the authors penned. “The five erotogenic regions of the anterior vaginal wall can be more accurately and appropriately termed the Gräfenberg Zone or G-zone.”
No matter what you call it, the G-spot is a pleasure center, and some vulva owners can achieve an orgasm by stimulating it from inside the vagina.
Unless you’ve figured it out by now, before I talk about how to find the G-spot, allow me to introduce the first man who actually found it. The “G-spot” was initially described in the 1940s by a German researcher named Ernst Gräfenberg. This is the man the spot is named after.
