Ultrasound scans may have pinpointed the location of the G spot, according to an article in this week’s New Scientist. Unfortunately, some women appear not to have one.

“For the first time it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has a G spot or not,” says Emmanuele Jannini at the University of L’Aquila in Italy.

Jannini conducted scans of nine women who said they have vaginal orgasms and 11 who don’t. Women in the first group were found to have thicker tissue in the area between the vagina and urethra where the G spot is thought to lie. His research is published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Not everyone agrees with the conclusion. Tim Spector of St Thomas’ Hospital in London told New Scientist, “The authors found a thicker vaginal wall near the urethra and hypothesize this may be related to the presence of the controversial G spot. However, many other explanations are possible – such as the actual size of the clitoris, which, although not measured in this study – appears highly variable.”

Unsurprisingly the combination of sex and science has attracted a swathe of media coverage including the Independent, which likens the G spot to “a sort of gynaecological UFO – much searched for, much discussed, but unverified by objective means”.

Headline watch

USA Today runs with Oh! zone: Researchers say X marks the ‘G spot’

The Age goes with Gee whiz: researchers hit the spot on orgasms

The Times though goes with Scientist may be first man to find the female G-spot. This doesn’t bode well for the other half of whoever wrote that headline…