People hate to admit that they’re wrong, especially after they’ve just published a well-funded, highly publicized “scientific” study, like “The G-Spot: Fiction or Friction.” This was the catchy title of the King’s College London survey conducted by Dr. Andrea Burri and Dr. Tim Spector, that professed to have determined “fairly conclusively” that the “G-spot” is “probably a myth,” essentially forced upon innocent, G-spotless women by nefarious “magazines and sex therapists.”
Being both a sex therapist and a magazine publisher, I felt I was being charged twice with the same crime. And what was the crime? Having a G-spot? Helping other women to find their G-spots? Encouraging men to go spelunking into the feminine cave to strike G-spot gold?
Whatever the charge, I felt moved to defend myself, my G-spot and the grossly insulted G-spots of women everywhere. So I blogged an impassioned “Defense of The G-Spot: Yes, Virginia, It Does Exist!, with detailed instructions for finding it, in case she (Dr. Andrea Virginia Burri)—or anyone else—really wanted to look, as well as a point-by-point assessment of her study as “ill-conceived, poorly analyzed, illogically interpreted and just plain wrong.”
To say the least.
But being demonstrably, obviously, enormously wrong is rarely enough to make most people confess they may have made a mistake. This is why it was so awesome and gratifying to hear that Dr. Burri had “backed down” from the claims of her spurious study. She admitted her mistake. Wow, what a woman…
- July 27, 2010 10:14 am
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