Sunday 1 February 2009

I spot the A spot and U spot the G spot...


Do a Google search for "Anterior Fornix Erogenous Zone" (in quotes) and you'll come up with about 117,000 pages. (Don't bother to search for "A-spot" as you'll find several million pages containing everything from "a spot of bother" to "a spot on the skin"!)

According to the Urban Dictionary the A-spot in women can be reached via the anus, as well as via the vagina. In blokes the same region is called the prostate gland, and it seems that women have a 'degenerate' version of that. (Is that why many women like to talk dirty while having sex? OK, never mind!)

Here's a quote about the A-spot from Desmond Morris' book, The Naked Woman (2004):

The A-Spot, AFE-zone or Anterior Fornix Erogenous Zone. Also referred to as the Epicentre, this is a patch of sensitive tissue at the inner end of the vaginal tube between the cervix and the bladder, described technically as the 'female degenerated prostate'. (In other words, it is the female equivalent of the male prostate, just as the clitoris is the female equivalent of the male penis.) Direct stimulation of this spot can produce violent orgasmic contractions. Unlike the clitoris, it is not supposed to suffer from post-orgasmic over-sensitivity.

Its existence was reported by a Malaysian physician in Kuala Lumpur as recently as the 1990s. There has been some mis-reporting about it, and its precise position has been incorrectly described by several writers. Its true location is just above the cervix, at the innermost point of the vagina. The cervix of the uterus is the narrow part that protrudes slightly into the vagina, leaving a circular recess around itself. The front part of this recess is called the anterior fornix. Pressure on it produces rapid lubrication of the vagina, even in women who are not normally sexually responsive. It is now possible to buy a special AFE vibrator – long thin and upward curved at its end, to probe this zone.

Another short piece from an iVillage discussion about sexual positions, has this to say about the Interlock Position (see below) in a section entitled 'Just call me Madonna':

This position is good for aiming at the A-spot. Scientists who were trying to find a cure for vaginal dryness accidentally discovered this hot spot in 1996. They were astonished to find that 95 percent of women became massively turned on when this spot was stimulated. It’s a smooth, extremely sensitive area located halfway between your G-spot and your cervix.

Learn more about the U-spot
and the Four E-Spots


Various descriptions of the interlock position:

Google Books - Mastering Multiple Position Sex
Yahoo! sex position of the day.
Digg.com interlock description.





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