Former Rutgers University Professor Beverly Whipple, best known for popularizing the G-spot, is still out there researching women’s health and sexuality, according to the London Free Press. More than just a pioneer in sexuality research, she also broke ground in challenging the male-centered bias of researchers:
In the mid-1980s, Rutgers asked her to join the faculty. She told them she wouldn’t come aboard unless she could conduct research on women, who had been neglected in medical research. The university’s nursing school then offered her a laboratory to seal the deal.
Among her more recent areas of research: proving that women who’ve suffered spinal-cord injuries can still have orgasms, and that “non-genital orgasms” are real. In some cases, women’s own doctors had told them it was “impossible” for them to experience genital pleasure after a spinal-cord injury, but the vagus nerve still connected their genitals and their brains. Using MRIs and fMRIs, Whipple told Wired she discovered that:
some of the same brain areas are activated during orgasm in women with and without complete spinal cord injury, and also during orgasm from imagery alone, with no one touching their body, including the women themselves.
Whipple’s new book is The Science of Orgasm, cowritten with Barry Komisaruk and Carlos Beyer-Flores.
“from imagery alone”…imagine that : )
both whipple and komisaruk’s research is a rare venture into an interesting, little-discussed area…and one that has considerable scientific merit. i’ve yet to check out their new book, but am happy to see it’s receiving popular press (though i hope it frequents the science section more than the human interest sections)
thx for the post!
Wow, great research, where can I buy this book? =D