[lit-ideas] Re: Not Imagining Sex, or The Whipple Spot
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:24:43 -0230
Transcendentally speaking, the "G-spot" is a non-referential term. What the term
actually refers to is a node in the physical/psychological/social space of
intimacy. (Similar to Sellar's "space of reasons," but with a few minor
alterations.)
Walter O.
Bed,
Department of Sexual Metaphysics and Epistemology
University of Amsterdam, Nova Scotia
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> David Ritchie:
>
> > This woman is funny. She notes that the Center for Sexual Therapy
> > in Haifa is located at the Rambam Medical Center. She writes that
> > the G-spot was named by Beverly Whipple, who contemplated calling it
> > the "Whipple Spot."
>
> 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.
>
> <What Is The The Gräfenberg Spot?
>
> <The Gräfenberg spot or G-Spot (named after its discoverer, the German
> gynecologist Ernst Grafenberg) is a small area of the female genital
> area located behind the pubic bone and around the urethra, i.e. the
> front wall or anterior vagina and halfway between the pubic bone and
> cervix. It is part of the urethral sponge, which houses the Skene's
> glands. If we imagine a clock face with the center of the vaginal
> opening, taking the 12 towards the navel, this area is between one and
> eleven...>
>
> Well, you may get the picture...
>
> Robert Paul
>
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