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Dear Dr. Myrtle,
You've described something called the "T Zone". Is it the same thing as the G-spot? Why are there so many different erogenous spots?
 The T Zone is a special area of muscle in the wall of the urinary bladder.
The T Zone has a gathering of nerves that carry information from your whole genital area on their way back to the spinal cord. These nerves send arousal information back to the part of your nervous system which heightens engorgement and increases early and late sexual arousal.
In women, the T Zone can be indirectly massaged through the anterior wall (toward the belly button) of the vagina; in men, prostate massage (through the rectal wall) pushes the prostate forward (and up) to massage the T Zone.
The G-spot and the T Zone are not the same structure. As you can see in the diagram, the T Zone is located much deeper than the G-spot (aka the female prostate). While some people massage the G-spot with resulting pleasure, we find in conversations with our customers that women describe two distinct areas of intra-vaginal massage that are exciting to them. One is the G-spot, which fewer women enjoy; the other is the T Zone, which more women enjoy. The T Zone can be challenging to massage because it's quite deep inside the body - as deep as or deeper than the tip of the cervix.
It does seem as though there are a number of different erogenous spots, and we hope that we are not adding to the confusion. The concept of the T Zone is based on anatomical research findings. We think some of the confusion has come about because the early descriptions of the "G spot" (from the 1500s) placed the spot at what we are calling the T Zone, while descriptions in this century had the "G spot" slip down a bit to become located in the paraurethral tissue.
As for the name, there are other descriptions of the same anatomical site: trigone of the urinary bladder, anterior fornix erogenous area, AFE zone, etc., but they seem like a mouthful to say. "T Zone" is an accurate and more straightforward name.
Dr. Myrtle
copyright 2004 AWT
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