The scientific study of sexual response has had its fits and starts over the last century. In trying to confirm or combat cultural myths about female sexuality, theorists from Freud to Masters and Johnson have suggested different -- and contradictory -- models of how and why women experience pleasure during sexual activities. This video is entitled “G Marks the Spot”, and asks, is the focus of female sexual response the clitoris, or the vagina, or both? A discussion of Ernst Grafenberg and a history of the theories about the G spot shows the range of both theories and personal experiences on the matter.

Please watch the following video clip and answer the corresponding follow-up questions.

Female Sexual Response

1			Is there a qualitative difference between a clitoral orgasm and a vaginal orgasm? A quantitative difference? How would you measure such a difference?
2			Why have scientific theories varied so widely over the last century? How would you design an experiment to test the existence or sensitivity of the G spot?
3			What is your opinion of the “mature” and “immature” orgasms that were identified by Sigmund Freud?
4			How are the G-Spot and orgasms that are generated by stimulation of the area related to the controversial issue of female ejaculation?