It’s a hot-button topic.
After years of searching, scientists in Spain have finally found the male “G-spot,” discovering that this so-called erogenous zone is far from where they suspected. They detailed their findings in a stimulating study published in the journal Andology.
Where is this so-called on-switch, defined by its capacity to induce intense orgasms upon stimulation? In an obscure region called the frenular delta, a triangular zone located on the underside of the penis where the head meets the shaft — an area so mysterious it has long been omitted from sexual health textbooks, per New Scientist.
According to the study, conducted by scientists at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, this region is “richly innervated by partially overlapping perineal (related to the region connecting genitals and anus) and dorsal (aft-facing) nerve branches” with “heightened concentrations of nerve bundles” and pleasure receptors.
In layperson’s terms, the frenular delta makes for “intensely pleasurable and highly specialized sensations,” per the paper.
While this hot button may be obvious to any sexually active male with a penis, the author’s work “validates the existence” of the region as a “centre of sexual sensation,” the authors write.
By finding this penile pleasure panel, scientists have closed the book on a region that has eluded scientists for years, like sexplorers finding a phallic Northwest Passage.
For decades, scientists had seen the prostate as the trigger for male orgasms, but had neglected to identify it on the proverbial pleasure map — until now.
To bring this titillating topography to light, the researchers examined samples of penile tissue taken from 30 fetuses, while the rest were from 14 adult males who donated their bodies to science post-mortem.
They examined cross-sections of their members under a microscope to see where the nerve endings were.
By examining these slices from different angles, they were able to paint the most detailed picture to date of these pleasure receptors’ locations.
They found that the alleged he-spot harbored more nerve bundles and sensitive receptor clusters than any other region — up to 17 concentrated in a small area in some cases.
The male “G-spot’s” pleasure points include Krause corpuscles, which reportedly detect the tiny vibrations that reverberate through the genitals upon skin-on-skin friction, whereupon they broadcast sexual sensations.
This made this sensory hot zone far more nerve-dense than the penis head or glans — which had previously been labeled the preeminent stimulation station.
“It is one of the most pleasurable spots for male sexual stimulation,” Eric Chung of the University of Queensland in Australia, who wasn’t involved in the study, told New Scientist of the frenular delta.
This study was important given that up until now, the idea of the male “G-spot” was one of the most “persistent blind spots in sexual medicine and urology.”
Far more attention was granted to the female counterpart, which had been searched for by scientists and men attempting to pleasure their partners.
Despite studies declaring this so-called hot button’s existence, the general consensus among sexperts is that it’s comprised of five different erotic regions inside the vagina.
“We suggest the current term ‘G-spot’ is misleading and therefore inappropriate,” Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor-in-chief of the Sexual Medicine Review journal, and his colleagues wrote in a 2022 editorial.
