The elusive female G-spot may not actually exist, scientists have reported.
Researchers said there is no conclusive evidence for the centre of female sexual pleasure after reviewing 100 studies conducted over the past 60 years.
They said the concept, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, had maintained its popularity due partly to pornography and sex therapists.
Dr Amichai Kilchevsky, a urologist from the Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, who led the research, said he hoped his work would relieve partners who felt under pressure to find it.
However, he admitted that the principle was worth further investigation
Dr Kilchevsky said: “Objective measures have failed to provide strong and consistent evidence for the existence of an anatomical site that could be related to the famed G-spot.
“Lots of women feel almost as though it is their fault they can't find it. The reality is that it is probably not something, historically or evolutionarily, that should even exist.”
The findings backed the conclusions of researchers from King's College London, who surveyed 1,800 women in one of the largest studies on the subject.
They found there was no evidence for the existence of the G-spot.
The British scientists said in 2010 that the idea had left both men and women feeling inadequate about their sex lives.
The G-spot is said to be a small area of the female body where a large number of nerve endings are gathering, which gives the capacity to provide intense pleasure.
Dr Kilchevsky said the results from tissue biopsies were inconclusive, with some studies reporting more nerve endings in the 'G-spot area', while others found fewer in the same place.
The G-spot was named after Ernst Grafenberg, a German gynaecologist who claimed to have discovered it in 1950.
The report was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
