I thought the latest thinking was that the g-spot was actually part of the clitoris, or all connected, or something. Advancements in anatomical knowledge, 3-D imagery?

That's what I've been reading. That's it's a relatively huge contiguous body, and its proximity to the vaginal wall is responsible for the vaginal orgasm. But there's a really really clumsy article on jezebel (which completely ignores the previous existence of the large clitoris article a week or so ago on IO9), and I had thought it was actually a dead issue for women, say 30 and younger anyway. Like, even for my age, it's had a lot of falloff. Then again, I haven't cracked an issue of Cosmo in quite a while, and aren't they backhandedly shaming you for not having *every* sort of orgasm possible?

aren't they backhandedly shaming you for not having *every* sort of orgasm possible?

Oh, sure. Orgasms are the new perfect cup of coffee when your man gets home from work.

...to be fair, I haven't read Cosmo in probably >10 years, so I'm being glib.

Huh. The only time I've heard of the vaginal orgasm vs clitoral orgasm issue was in an anthropology class, so over 20 years ago, and it was dismissed as old-fashioned and irrelevant then.

Apparently it's still actually under debate. How is it we don't know these things? Is this a sexist thing, or a sexual thing - i.e., a disinclination to study sexual anatomy? Are we this unsure about penile anatomy?

This has been some of the most interesting Wikipedia reading I've done for a long time, I'll tell you that. Anatomical researchers are down right witty:

"I think that the bulk of the evidence shows that the G-Spot is not a particular thing," stated Barry Komisaruk, head of the research findings. "It's not like saying, 'What is the thyroid gland?' The G-Spot is more of a thing like New York City is a thing. It's a region, it's a convergence of many different structures."

(um, NSFW if you've got pictures on, but you can probably figure that out on your own. Unless your work is in a biology department. YBMV.)

(EATA: Really I just wanted an excuse to use the beagle expression again.)

jilli! did you see this art made from real blood?

Oooh, no I had not. That is astonishing and haunting.

(And I'm very amused to have read your post after coming home from B&N, where I finally managed to get one of their pretty red leather-bound editions of Dracula. I feel like my cliche card has been nicely stamped for the evening.)

Now that I'm 40, I feel like "middle-aged" should be, like, 53. (I picked that arbitrarily.) Because my brain feels like it's 25. Seriously.

I'm in the camp of "middle-aged" is, like, 70 something. Mostly because I refuse to believe my Dad is middle-aged, much less myself.

bon bon, I am coming over RIGHT NOW!

I am tempted to say this as well, but I just showered and put on pjs, so maybe tomorrow? Relatedly I now need to make my own lime cordial. whoa.

I'm in the 40s are middle aged, at least as far as the body is concerned. I think I'm in pretty good shape for my age, but it does take a lot more work to keep it like this now than it did when I was in my 20s. I'm a bit worried about the implications of that statement when I hit my 60s.

Did anyone else see the Colbert segment last night about the 86-year-old woman who's an Olympic gymnast? She was AMAZING. It gives me hope. Like, I don't really need to be a gymnast, but if I'd go to the gym regularly I could have a chance of being strong and flexible into old age. Maybe my genetics destines me to be collapsing by 74 as my mom did, but maybe not.

If only I could accomplish this by, say, ritual sacrifice instead of going to the dang gym.

If only I could accomplish this by, say, ritual sacrifice instead of going to the dang gym.

I KNOW, RIGHT?

So much about the body is use it or lose it, exercise seems to get more important as I get older.

I did not see that on Colbert, but someone on my internet realm linked to a youtube of her doing gymnastics, and I was very impressed.

Also, I felt like her gymnastics in many cases was so much better artistically than the floor exercise Olympic stuff nowadays--sure, she didn't have triple back handspring twists or whatever, but it looked lovely and integrated and natural. Whereas watching high level gymnastics these days it so often looks like "and now I add a jerky obligatory hand wave here, and a quick leg point there, and back to the springs!" I mean, I love seeing amazing feats of flippiness, but...the other day I chanced upon a video of the NCAA championships this year, the floor routines? And one girl was doing more of a...marching band kind of song? And more cheerleader-y, step-dance-y moves, and it was awesome. Looked so much less forced and like it went with both the music and the flipping!