Sexes: In Search of a Perfect G

New book's theory hits the commercial spot

G is for Gräfenberg, Ernst, a German gynecologist and sex researcher.

Spot is for what he reported discovering in some women in the course of research into birth control methods in the 1940s: a patch of erectile tissue in the front wall of the vagina, directly behind the pubic bone, that acts something like a second clitoris. G spot is for the new book about that odd finding, published amid considerable commercial hubbub: a first printing of 150,000 hardback copies by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and deals with six book clubs.

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