Eager to connect with that elusive (some say mythical) ‘erotogenic zone’? Years after the hype began, finding it remains easier said than done. But that’s not stopping researchers from looking.
THE MATING GAME
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
July 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times – Health Section
When in 1950 Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg described finding a surprisingly sensitive spot inside the vagina near the urethra, he made the process seem so foolproof. A medical article detailed his effortless demonstrations of the existence of this “distinct erotogenic zone” — and the not-unexpected consequences of stimulating such a zone — in his own patients. Anyone with a vagina could surely do the same for herself.
Well, perhaps it was that easy for him. But outside his examining room, nothing about Gräfenberg’s spot has proven so simple.
