[lit-ideas] Re: Not Imagining Sex, or The Whipple Spot
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:35:26 -0700
On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
This doesn't explain the 'G' in 'G-spot' though. Ms. Whipple
apparently resisted temptation, and named the area (whose existence
is still doubted by some) after its discoverer, Ernst Gräfenberg,
who stumbled upon it, or upon what he thought was it, during his
research in the 1950s.
Indeed. Roach says as much. He called it "an erotic zone."
Whipple, a "popularizer and researcher," named it...after toying with
alternatives.
David Ritchie,
stripping for tennis in
Portland, Oregon
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