The G Spot: Come Again?

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We’re heading into a big summer, with more places and — ahem — people opening up. So we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes about feeling good. Maybe you’ve heard about this magic button in the vagina that can cause amazing orgasms. What’s going on with it? Join us on a hunt for the elusive G spot. Our guides: Prof. Beverly Whipple, who introduced America to the G spot in the 1980s, and Prof. Helen O’Connell, a urologist and expert on female sexual anatomy. Get the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3bGtui5 Credits: This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman and Heather Rogers, with help from Austin Mitchell and Kaitlyn Sawrey. Edited by Caitlin Kenney, Blythe Terrell, Annie Rose Strasser and Alex Blumberg. Fact checking by Michelle Harris and Taylor White. Production Assistance by Dr. Diane Wu and Shruti Ravindran. An extra big thanks to Dr Lola Pellegrino, Andreas Montoya Castillo, Rose Reid, and Radio National’s The Science Show. Sound design by Matthew Boll, Martin Peralta and Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Bobby Lord, Peter Leonard and Emma Munger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlin.
0:04.5	This is the show where we pit facts against four-play.
0:10.0	Many of us have been cooped up for months, but now it's spring.
0:15.0	Birds are bonking, squirrels are all squirrely, and even flies are getting fresh.
0:26.0	So, over at Science Versus, we thought it was a great time to revisit one of our favorite episodes.
0:33.1	It's about the great mystery of the G-Spot.
0:37.1	Does it exist or not?
0:39.1	This episode is super fun.
0:41.1	We talk a lot about genitals, parents.
0:44.1	If this will open up a conversation that you're not ready to have right now, you've been warned.
0:50.1	Alright, let's get into it.
0:55.1	We're in 1981.
0:57.1	Roger Moore was still James Bond.
0:59.6	Sandra Day O'Connor was to become the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court.
1:04.6	And the Phil Donahue show had been broadcasting to the nation for more than a decade.
1:10.1	Today, on that show, something that would change the way we talk about vaginas for decades to come.
1:17.1	What we're about to discuss, it has to do with sexuality and it has to do with women.
1:23.6	And it has to do with orgasm.
1:25.6	A nurse named Beverly Whipple was about to bravely tell the nation of something exciting inside the vagina.
1:32.6	It was a spot that if pressed, would give you an orgasm.
1:37.6	If you stimulate this area, what happens the orgasm occurs very rapidly, usually within a minute.
1:44.6	And people often report that they have many orgasms frequently.
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