Calling A Gland A Gland
I’ve always thought it silly when I see folks referring to the prostate as “the male g-spot”. To my mind, that usage only perpetuates woeful anatomical ignorance. Rabbit has a slightly different objection:
As a person fascinated with words and phrases, I always find the reference to the male g-spot a little bit humorous. After all, the g-spot literally means Gräfenberg spot and refers specifically to a gynaecologist’s discovery within female, not male genitalia. I’m not certain when the male g-spot became a term used to describe stimulation of the prostate, but I’m running across it more and more frequently on sexuality sites. One part of me immediately thinks, jeez, can’t guys find their own term, or, like early Christians taking over and replacing pagan rituals and festivities with their own celebrations, must dominant cultures constantly turn things into their own personal and empowering definitions? From a feminist point of view, there is a sense of male ownership over female sexuality in their use of the term to describe a man’s pleasure point.
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Right on to both of you, but doubly so to Rabbit.
It kinda pisses me off, too, for another reason; copping out and calling it the “male” g-spot is just so fucking unimaginative. That’s great, just what mainstream sex education needs: More unimagination.
In any case, we all agree… stupid, stupid, stupid.
Just wow. This “anal-ness” is the cause of 90% of the worlds problems. Who cares really? The fact that anyone would bother to point this out astounds me – nevermind take offense. The world would be such a better place if people could get past the small, and largely irrelevant, things.
Yeah, it’s unimaginative. I just see it as an implied metaphor, though: the prostate is the male equivalent of the female g-spot. The’re both underappreciated, have interesting effects, and are supposed to be hard to locate.
In my books, “male G-spot” is right up there with “female ejaculation.”
DTG xxoo
From a purely anatomical perspective though, the prevailing opinion among embryologists is that the G-spot would have become a prostate if the embryo had recieved the signal to become male. Therefore calling the prostate a “male g-spot” could be somewhat accurate.
I have to agree with Rus on this one. Having played with both g-spots and prostates, they have a similar enough feel and reaction to warrant the comparison.
If it takes an anal-free comparison to get a man over his own ass, who cares what we call it?
I’d have to agree with Bacchus on this, Gus. The prostate developes by outpouchings and invaginations from a portion of the urethra. In females, in the absence of testosterone, a roughly similar but much more limited outpouching occurs to form the poorly-understood “paraurethral glands of Skene,” tiny glands located on either side of the urethral opening in females. They have no important function, but probably do secrete various amounts of fluid during female orgasm. They are virtually impossible to see or find unless they get infected, in which case they become enlarged, painful, and leak fluid.
Hope this clarifies something.
Casper