Ololade Adeyanju with FEMAIL/
A new book has explained everything you ever wanted to know about the vagina but didn’t dare ask.
The book discussed topics ranging from the truth about the clitoris’ inner life to whether the elusive G spot really exists.
The pair also wrote that the age long missionary position may yet prove the most pleasurable sex position for couples.
Medical academics, Dr Nina Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl, are the co-authors of the bestselling book, The Wonder Down Under.
“One new hypothesis is that the G-spot is not a separate physical thing at all, but simply a deep-lying inner part of the clitoris that’s stimulated during sex,” the authors wrote for FEMAIL earlier this month.
“Hold on, you might say. The inner part of the clitoris? What inner part? And this brings us to perhaps the biggest myth we discovered in our research,” they continued.
“We’ve been brought up to believe the clitoris, the site of all female sexual pleasure, is roughly the size of a raisin.
“But the truth is this little button is just the tip of an iceberg, a small part of a large and extraordinarily sensitive organ that extends deep into a woman’s pelvis.”
It’s not just the G spot that’s exposed, either.
The academics reveal that there is no “absolute physical ‘seal’ that acts as a proof of virginity”, rather just an “anatomical structure which has caused the misunderstanding”.
They also found that the pill does not in fact controversially make you gain weight.
“Actually, the real cause of putting on the pounds could be that a lot of women put on a bit of weight when they find a partner, which is also likely to be the time they start taking the Pill,” they wrote.
Similarly, the missionary position doesn’t have to be seen as boring. Instead, if you try the coital alignment technique, or CAT, it can prove the best position for the female orgasm.
To find this, instead of resting on his hands, your partner should rest on his lower arms and keep his body in contact with yours.
Then, instead of thrusting, he should slide his body up along yours horizontally.
The Norwegian pair behind the book met in 2011, when in their first year of medicine at the University of Oslo, they decided to start teaching free sex education classes to a mix of school students, refugees and other people.
They soon realised that there is a wealth of confusion and misinformation around women and sexual health – and so started looking into the myths and misconceptions about female anatomy.
After starting a blog in 2015 called Underlivit (or ‘The Genitals’), they later went on to write The Wonder Down Under, which was first published in January 2017.
Since then, the best-selling book has gone on to be translated around the world.
