Orgasm Daily Reviews - Urethral Sponge
The Urethral Sponge (aka G Spot)
If you’re up for orgasm exploring your genital anatomy, you’ll notice that if you move your fingers down from your clitoris toward your vaginal opening, you should be able to locate the opening of the urethra, the tube that conducts urine from the bladder out of the body. The urethral opening is more visible in some women than others. You may have to spread your labia and bear down with your pelvic muscles to get a good look at this area.
The spongy acorn-shaped protrusion around the urethral opening is loaded with nerve endings and is an erogenous zone for many women for reaching orgasm. For others, stimulation of this area may be irritating and unpleasant.
Inside your body, the urethra runs parallel to and above the vagina, so that the ceiling of the vagina is closest to the floor of the urethra. The urethra is surrounded by spongy tissue dense with blood vessels and containing glands similar in their makeup and in the fluids they produce to the male prostate gland. These glands are most densely concentrated in an area equivalent to the outer third of the vagina. This urethral sponge is what has come to be called the G-spot, or female prostate, named after Ernst Grafenberg, a gynecologist who first published research on the erotic pleasure potential of the urethra in the 1940s and 1950s. Some women greatly enjoy stimulating the urethral sponge for orgasm, and some women experience an ejaculation of fluids through the urethra as a result.
The G-spot is not a vaginal orgasm button—it’s simply a cushion of tissue wrapped around the urethra. The reason this cushion can aptly be described as a “spot” is that the urethra is only about one and a half to two inches long. Your urethral sponge can be stimulated through the front wall of your vagina in the same way that a man’s prostate gland can be stimulated through the front wall of his anus. While every woman has a urethral sponge, not everyone has the same response to its stimulation—your reaction could range from orgasm-pleasure to indifference to irritation.
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