There’s no such thing as a vaginal orgasm, study says

The vaginal orgasm does not, and cannot, exist. Furthermore, women do not ejaculate and the elusive, euphoric G-spot is just a fantasy. This is the last, anticlimactical, word on the female orgasm debate, according to a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Clinical Anatomy. The researchers, from the Italian Centre for Sexology, argue that the only way for women to climax is through clitoral stimulation. The paper’s authors argue that the female penis, aka the clitoris, is a purely external organ, thereby making an “internal” vaginal orgasm impossible.

Vaginal orgasm has no scientific basis and the term was invented by Freud. Female orgasm is possible in all women, always with effective stimulation of the female erectile organs, eg, the female penis.

Vincenzo Puppo, a researcher at the Italian Centre for Sexology and co-author Guilia Puppo

But not all sexual health professionals are happy with their ending. It doesn’t capture the complexity of female sexuality, including the female orgasm, argues science writer Kayt Sukel. “While anatomy is important, sexual response is more than the sum of our nether regions,” she says. Sukel also points out that the researchers’ dismissal of any other path to orgasm falls short for other reasons. “In their anatomical reasoning, the authors do not explain why so many women don’t climax even with sufficient clitoral stimulation – or why some are capable of orgasm in the absence of it,” she says.

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