A team of scientists believe they've found the true location of the male G-spot, and not in the location you might expect.
A great many people spend a lot of time studying the penis, though in a lot of cases it's in pursuit of something other than scientific discovery.
However, a team of scientists led by Alfonso Cepeda-Emiliani at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain conducted an anatomical study of the male member and located its main erogenous zone.
According to their research this special spot is the frenular delta, which is where the head meets the shaft on the underside of your gentleman's sausage.
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"Although this may seem self-evident to anyone attuned to the sensations of their penis during sexual activity, our work scientifically validates the existence of a ventral penile anatomical region that serves as a centre of sexual sensation," the scientists said in their research.
To reach this conclusion they studied the skinflutes taken from bodies of 14 men who died between the ages of 45 and 96, mapping out the sensory nerves as they did so.
If you're wondering why it had to be the penises of cadavers it's because their mapping method was conducted by slicing the penises into tiny portions and using dye to show how the nerves developed.
Good look finding living men willing to have their dingle sliced into minuscule pieces for the sake of science, or much of any reason really.
Anyhow, the scientists found that the frenular delta has a higher concentration of nerve endings, thus making it more sensitive, than the head of the penis which is also known as the glans.
According to New Scientist this discovery means that anatomy textbooks may have been getting it wrong all these years since they typically identify the glans as the most sensitive part of the penis and while the frenular delta is left out of the textbooks and training for surgeons.
They note that it's not the first time the frenular delta has been called the male G-spot, as in 2001 Ken McGrath of New Zealand's Auckland University of Technology was the one to both name that part of the penis and suggest it was the key to male sexual pleasure.
Now the Spanish researchers say it can lead to 'intensely pleasurable and highly specialised sensations', and they argue that its omission from academic textbooks 'underscores persistent blind spots in sexual medicine and urology'.
They've argued that doctors performing circumcisions need to know more about the frenular delta because some methods of slicing off the foreskin cut across this particularly sensitive spot.
As a result it can reduce the sexual sensation for these men as the most sensitive spot of their penis is damaged.
Having studied the male G-spot, Cepeda-Emiliani's team are now researching a similar study of the clitoris.
Topics: Science, Health, Sex and Relationships
Joe Harker