Editing G-spot (section)

==History==
The release of fluids had been seen by medical practitioners as beneficial to health. Within this context, various methods were used over the centuries to release "female seed" (via [[vaginal lubrication]] or female ejaculation) as a treatment for ''suffocation ex semine retento'' (suffocation of the womb), [[female hysteria]] or [[green sickness]]. Methods included a [[midwife]] rubbing the walls of the vagina or insertion of the penis or penis-shaped objects into the vagina.<ref name="StoryofV">{{cite book|last=Blackledge|first=Catherine|title=The Story of V: A Natural History of Female Sexuality|publisher=Rutgers University Press|date=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/storyofv00cath/page/203 203]|isbn=978-0-8135-3455-8|url=https://archive.org/details/storyofv00cath|url-access=registration|quote=history of v.}}</ref> In the book ''History of V'', {{ill|Catherine Blackledge|pl}} lists old terms for what she believes refer to the female prostate (the Skene's gland), including ''the little stream'', ''the black pearl'' and ''palace of yin'' in China, ''the skin of the earthworm'' in Japan, and ''saspanda nadi'' in the India sex manual ''[[Ananga Ranga]]''.<ref>Blackledge, p. 201</ref>

The 17th-century Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf described female ejaculation and referred to an erogenous zone in the vagina that he linked as homologous with the male prostate; this zone was later reported by the German gynecologist [[Ernst Gräfenberg]].<ref name="Roeckelein2006p256">{{cite book | first1 = Jon E. | last1 = Roeckelein | title = ''Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories'' | publisher = [[Elsevier]] | year = 2006 | page = 256 | access-date = October 8, 2012 | isbn = 9780444517500 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1Yn6NZgxvssC&pg=PA256 | quote = The ''G-spot'' is not felt normally during a gynecological exam, because the area must be sexually stimulated in order for it to swell and be palpable; physicians, of course, do not sexually arouse their patients and, therefore, do not typically find the woman's ''G-spot''. | archive-date = December 10, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201210124622/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Yn6NZgxvssC&pg=PA256 | url-status = live }}</ref> Coinage of the term ''G-spot'' has been credited to Addiego et al. in 1981, named after Gräfenberg,<ref name="Addiego2">{{cite journal |last1 =Addiego |first1=F |last2=Belzer |first2=EG |last3=Comolli |first3=J |last4=Moger |first4=W |last5=Perry |first5=JD |author-link5=Beverly Whipple |last6=Whipple |first6=B.]] |year =1981|title =Female ejaculation: a case study |journal =Journal of Sex Research |volume =17 |issue =1|pages =13–21 |doi =10.1080/00224498109551094}}</ref> and to Alice Kahn Ladas and [[Beverly Whipple]] et al. in 1982.<ref name="Taverner">{{cite book|author=William J. Taverner|author-link=William J. Taverner|title=Taking Sides: Clashing Views On Controversial Issues In Human Sexuality|publisher=[[McGraw-Hill Education]]|year=2005|access-date=January 24, 2014|pages=79–82|isbn=978-1429955225|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCpFAAAAYAAJ|archive-date=May 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504060206/https://books.google.com/books?id=CCpFAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> Gräfenberg's 1940s research, however, was dedicated to urethral stimulation; Gräfenberg stated, "An erotic zone always could be demonstrated on the anterior wall of the vagina along the course of the urethra".<ref name="Gräfenberg1950">{{cite journal |year=1950 |journal=International Journal of Sexology |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=145–148 |title=The role of urethra in female orgasm |author=Ernest Gräfenberg |author-link=Ernst Gräfenberg |url=http://www.landman-psychology.com/284/sexuality/grafenberg-gspot.htm |access-date=2008-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182900/http://www.landman-psychology.com/284/sexuality/grafenberg-gspot.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The concept of the G-spot entered popular culture with the 1982 publication of ''[[The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality]]'' by Ladas, Whipple and Perry,<ref name="Taverner"/> but it was criticized immediately by [[Gynaecology|gynecologists]]:<ref name="TheNakedWoman"/><ref name="time1982">{{cite magazine |date = September 13, 1982 |title =In Search of the Perfect G |magazine =[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951842-1,00.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070524112201/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951842-1,00.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = May 24, 2007}}</ref> some of them denied its existence as the absence of arousal made it less likely to observe, and autopsy studies did not report it.<ref name="TheNakedWoman"/>