You may have heard the G-spot buzz today: a gynecological surgeon claims to have discovered an actual structure in a vagina that corresponds to this reputed female pleasure center
. Just by itself, any invocation of the G-spot should set off alarms; it has been called a “gynecologic UFO: much searched for, much discussed, but unverified by objective means
.” There is much about this particular study, though, that is deeply troubling, as best exposed
by Ricki Lewis, who has authored textbooks on human physiology, at Scientific American. Here is a quick sum-up of what is so wrong about this situation. Big Problem #1Adam Ostrzenski, the surgeon behind the paper, has made this claim on the basis of dissecting a single corpse. As Lewis points out
, a single data point does not really mean anything in science, especially when you're claiming to have found an organ that supposedly exists ...
