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If the growing interest in vaginoplasty teaches us anything, it’s that women are more and more showing an interest in doing anything necessary to increase the pleasurable sensations associated with sex. The connection is this: By restoring the vagina to its former condition of tightness, sex again stimulates the male penis as it once did, but it also stimulates and helps lead to orgasm for the woman. There are many reasons for this, but one possibility is that this tightness restores sensitivity to the woman’s so-called “G Spot.” You know–that special place that , for some reason, stimulates you more than any other spot.

So let’s discuss the G spot. It was actually first discovered nearly 60 years ago, though it was only named “G Spot” about 26 years ago. Nevertheless, scientists have been divided over whether it even really exists. That is, until last February. Just one year ago, they determined that it does exist, although apparently not all women have it.

Dr. Beverly Whipple (who, incidentally, coined the name “G Spot,” which is short for “Grafenberg Spot”), said, along with Dr. John D. Perry, that they had conducted numerous studies, including autopsies. The conclusion was that the G Spot is located within the paraurethral gland. Every woman has the gland, says Dr. Whipple, although not everyone experiences the sensation.

Since first writing about the G Spot decades ago, Whipple has racked up quite a resume. She appears regularly on TV and radio talk shows, and writes in magazines, as well as delivering speeches. And of course, she continues to regularly publish research articles and chapters for scientific books. Whipple currently teaches at Rutgers in New Jersey. She has been on numerous boards during her career and also serves the World Association for sexual Health as secretary general.

Since Dr. Whipple published THE G SPOT nearly three decades ago, she has written other books–including the ground-breaking SCIENCE OF ORGASM, which was published in 2006. This book explored the way in which the brain produces orgasms and verified the existence of so-called sexual hotspots. In a way, the book was a continuation of her life-long thesis that the biggest sexual organ we have is the human brain.

While Dr. Whipple is supportive of a woman’s right to vaginoplasty, she opposes the G shot-another medical form of sexual stimulation. Namely, she finds the so-called “G-Shot,” or a G-Spot amplification method developed by Dr. David Matlock, “atrocious.” Her criticism of the G shot is based on the fact that there has not been adequate testing of the method; she says she only advocates a procedure after much testing and research has been done on it. As for vaginoplasty, while she says many women should not find it necessary, if it helps to enhance her sex life, Dr. Whipple says, “then by all means.”

In the meantime, Dr. Whipple will continue her quest to help women understand sex more and get the maximum they can get from it–a goal and ambition shared by doctors involved in the field of vaginoplasty.

Dr. Helen Colen is a board certified plastic surgeon in Manhattan. Visit her blog for more information about vaginoplasty