{"id":15510,"date":"2012-11-09T00:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T08:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=15510"},"modified":"2012-11-08T23:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T07:45:28","slug":"what-does-the-g-in-g-spot-stand-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/what-does-the-g-in-g-spot-stand-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the “G” in “G-Spot” Stand For?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Becky asks: What does the “G” in “G-spot” stand for?<\/div>\n

\"Now<\/a>The “G” in G-Spot stands for “Gr\u00e4fenberg”, after famed gynecologist Dr. Ernst\u00a0Gr\u00e4fenberg, who, among other things, had the “G-spot” named after him and invented the first known Ring IUD birth control device, the “Gr\u00e4fenberg ring”.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ernst\u00a0Gr\u00e4fenberg was born in Germany on September 18, 1881 and received\u00a0his doctorate on March 10, 1905.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1910, he started working as a\u00a0gynecologist\u00a0in Berlin and soon became the chief gynecologist at Berlin University. When Hitler assumed power in Germany and Nazism was rampant, Gr\u00e4fenberg, who was a Jew, was forced to resign.<\/p>\n

His friends and family tried to persuade him to leave Germany at the time, but he refused. \u00a0Gr\u00e4fenberg thought that because several of his patients were wives of high ranking Nazi officers, he would be safe.\u00a0 This wasn’t the case and in 1937 he was arrested.<\/p>\n

In 1940, Margaret Sanger paid a ransom for his release and he left Germany to settle down in New York City, where he once again established a successful gynecologist practice.<\/p>\n

It was at this time that Gr\u00e4fenberg researched the subject of urethral stimulation and, while it wasn’t the main point of the study he was doing, he stated: \u00a0“An erotic zone always could be demonstrated on the anterior wall of the vagina along the course of the urethra”.<\/p>\n

Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf in the 17th century had previously noted this erogenous zone. He also noted that when stimulated properly in this area, the woman would often ejaculate.\u00a0 His theory was that this was some sort of female prostate.\u00a0 Despite de Graaf’s earlier theories on this region, Gr\u00e4fenberg is usually given credit for its “discovery” and the name “G-spot”, after Gr\u00e4fenberg, was coined in the 1981 paper “Female Ejaculation: a case study” published in the Journal of Sex Research.<\/p>\n

It was one year later that the G-Spot name and the region itself gained widespread popularity amongst the general public after the book, The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality<\/a> by Alice Kahn Ladas and Beverly Whipple came out in 1982.<\/p>\n

Bonus<\/span> Fact:<\/p>\n