The G-spot is so last year, it’s time to embrace a whole new area of pleasure: the G-region.
Though the names are similar, their location is slightly different. The G-spot is famously one elusive O-button located on the front wall of the vagina – and some debate if it even exists.
Ditch the hunt for that, get your explorers hat on, and go in search of
an earth-shattering climax in your G-region instead.
You’ll find your G-region anywhere within your clitourethrovaginal complex or your CUV zone – the area encompassing your internal ‘clitoris’, ‘urethra’ and ‘vaginal wall’.
Fun fact: your personal G-region can feel like a walnut. When super aroused, G-Regions can appear out of nowhere, swell, change textures and become sensitive.
It might feel like a weird sensation at first. Of 20,000 women surveyed by sex education site OMGYES, 45% initially found G-region stimulation unpleasant — but then found ways to make it very pleasurable.
One respondent said: ‘For me, it was almost like I had to practice before my body recognised it as a point of pleasure.
‘When I found mine, I had such a I-have-to-pee feeling, I couldn’t imagine that ever feeling good. But I eventually learned to push past that and I’m so glad I did!’
Where is your G-region?
There’s no exact road map for finding your personal G-region, as our vaginas aren’t identical.
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‘Think of the veins on your arm,’ says an OMGYES expert. ‘They branch all over. And if you look at someone else’s arm, their veins are in different places than yours.
‘The nerves that run back from the clitoris along the walls of the vagina are kind of like that.’
In fact, for a fifth of women, the region actually moves from time to time, and isn’t always located in the same place.
So, how do you know if you’ve found it? For some women, it will feel like ‘the grooves in a walnut’ or slightly rougher than the rest of your vagina, while for some it will be a case of feeling around with your fingers after you’re aroused, and seeing where pressure or touch feels the most pleasurable.’
It’s all in the build up
We’re all for enthusiasm, but if you dive in head first without warming up, you’re not going to get the most out of your G-region.
We aren’t just talking about a little bit of lube either, you need to allow the zone time to ‘wake up’.
You can do this by either penetrating yourself with your fingers or a sex toy for a while, or by having penetrative sex with a partner.
Once you’ve done this for a while, experts say you can move to less intense stimulation, which includes massaging the area lightly or pressing it with multiple fingers, a toy or a penis.
If that feels delightful, then you can move to more intense stimulation, adding more pressure to the area and using one finger to really focus the sensation on one part of your zone.
Sandwiching
There are a number of ways you can pleasure your G-region, the first technique being sandwiching.
It’s pretty simple, you want to feel like your sandwiching your body between both your hands. This works best for women who have a G-region on their top vaginal wall.
The OMGYES expert says: ‘With one set of fingers inside putting upward pressure on the G-Region, another hand rests outside, above where pubic hair grows, and pushes down against the fingers inside.’
So basically, with one hand, insert two fingers into your vagina and apply pressure to your top vaginal wall, pushing upwards toward your pubic bone and lower abdomen.
With your other hand externally push down on your lower abdomen just above your pubic bone, as if you’re trying to make your internal fingers and external fingers meet.
It’s like the two slices of bread in a sandwich. Then pulse both hands in unison to create a nice sensation.
Angling
You’re probably doing this without realising. About 88% of women angle their pelvis to control and enhance pleasure during penetrative sex.
To do this, a woman can simply tilt her hips downwards to make the tip of the penis touch her top wall. Simple.
Pulling
This one may sound a little daunting, but we promise it’s not.
Create a little hook with two of your fingers, pushing against your top vaginal wall, then gently pull these fingers towards your vaginal opening – as if you’re trying to hook your fingers behind your pubic bone.
Think of it as curling your fingers inside, as if you’re beckoning someone over. Of course, if this is getting your engines going, feel free to tug a little harder.
‘This is a great way to increase pressure without feeling poked at,’ the experts say. ‘With a strong and stable-enough grasp, the hips and body move with the motion.’
Walking
We aren’t talking about lacing up your trainers and hoping you orgasm during your hot girl walk.
Walking is actually a method of fingering where you use two fingers to rub over your G-region in continuous motions. You know how when you’re busting that moon-walking dance move and your feet never actually leave the floor? The same concept applies here.
‘Once one finger has finished its stroke, the other finger will already have begun its next stroke,’ OMGYES experts add.
4 common misconceptions about vaginas, according to a sex doctor
A YouGov survey found nearly half of British women were unsure about the location of the vagina. (FYI, although we use the term colloquially to mean the full shebang, the vagina is technically the tube that runs from the vulva – the outside bit – to the cervix, which is the neck of the womb.)
So, we’re here to debunk some common misconceptions about the vagina.
Myth 1: Vaginas get looser with more sex
Wrong, but it’s a big misconception. Yoxly recently found 22% of their Instagram followers thought having lots of sex would change the shape of the vagina and make it looser, but that’s just not true.
Dr Danae tells Metro: ‘The vagina is a really muscular and elastic organ, so it has the ability to stretch during sex but it returns to it’s original shape and size afterwards.
Myth 2: You always bleed when you lose your virginity
That would be false. While Dr Danae says it is common, not everyone experiences this.
‘Whether someone’s bleeding during their first time is dependent upon a number of factors and the one most people think about is the hymen, that’s a thin piece of tissue that partially covers the vaginal opening,’ Dr Danae says.
‘There are some people that are born without them, some people have larger hymens, some people have smaller hymens. But the hymen can be quite flexible and doesn’t always tear with vaginal penetration.’
Myth 3: Healthy vaginas don’t smell
Healthy vaginas do have a smell, according to Dr Danae. ‘The vagina isn’t a flower, it’s an organ, and all vaginas including healthy ones have a natural scent,’ she says.
‘That scent can change throughout their menstrual cycle, it can be affected by diet, hormones, hygiene — loads of different things. Not having any smell isn’t a marker of a healthy vagina.’
Myth 4: Semen negatively affects the vagina’s PH balance
Semen can affect your vagina’s PH balance but this is not something to be worried about.
Dr Danae says: ‘The PH of your vagina can be temporarily affected by semen. The PH of the vagina is naturally acidic – usually between 3.8 and 4.5 – so the acidity works to balance the natural microbiome that exists in the vagina to keep it healthy, protecting against fungus and harmful bacteria.’
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