To understand what the G-spot represents, take a quick, imaginary trip back to the womb. Imagine that the uterus holds two fertilized eggs: twins, a boy and a girl.

In the earliest stages of development there is little to visually differentiate the developing boy and girl. In fact, at one point both embryos will seem to have female sex organs; it is not until later in development that the introduction of the hormone testosterone will cause the boy to develop a penis and testicles. much as estrogen will much later enlarge the preteen girl’s breasts during puberty. The male embryo eventually develops a prostate, which at full maturity (reached during puberty) will secrete a seminal fluid that, when mixed with sperm from the testes, will flow into the man’s urinary tract and be ejaculated out of his hard penis upon orgasm.

Likewise, the female embryo, of course, develops the sexual organs of a woman. The organ that in the male embryo becomes the prostate develops in the woman into what has been called the Skene’s glands, after Alexander Skene, M.D. In 1880, Skene described the glands and their ridged ducts as urological structures surrounding the female urethra, and as having little if any function; most often they were only noticed, he wrote, when they became infected and created a urological problem.

However, by the 1950s it was recognized that this tissue had erectile qualities: It hardened to the touch. It is the Skene’s glands, particularly the series of parallel ridges on the glands, that can be felt through the front wall of the vagina, especially as the glands’ erectile tissue engorges with blood and hardens during stimulation of the G-spot from within the woman's vagina. The Skene’s glands (the G-spot body) have now been more properly renamed in the medical community as the female prostate; they were recognized in the 1980s as an organ of sexual pleasure, not simply as a urological structure.

Py Kim Conant is a sexpert, educator and the author of "Sex Secrets of an American Geisha: How to Attract, Satisfy and Keep Your Man." For more tips on sex and relationships and free chapters of the book, sign up for newsletter at http://www.AmericanGeishaHouse.com

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