The G-SHOT
In America, they're bored with Botox, over boob jobs and go through
surgeons like they do shoes. Now meet the women who are reaching orgasmic
new heights thanks to a collagen injection in the G spot. Is nothing
sacred?
It's a Tuesday morning in California and 28 year old *Rosemary, legs up
in stirrups in a lavish Doctor's surgery made of marble floors, is
watching CNN. The way Dr Matlock and his assistant are 'prodding and
poking' around 'down there' you'd think they were performing the typical
gyno check up. But they're not. They're finding out where Rosemary's g-
spot is so they can inject it with collagen, making it bigger, which
after 48 hours guarantees endless orgasmic pleasure.
'This is my second time having the G-shot and I still find it really
weird and clinical,' laughs Rosemary. 'I always expect the room to be
dimly lit, with candles and ambient music playing, but here I am watching
CNN while having it done. It's very surreal to say the least.'
Having heard about the G-Shot through a friend who raved about her
endless orgasms, she had no hesitation paying US$1850 to have it done.
'I only told a couple of close friends about it, but no one in my family
knows. They'd think I was totally nuts. But even though I've had orgasms
before, I always felt it was much harder for me, as well as other women
under 30 to have them, compared to a guy. So I figured why not have a
procedure that can give me sexual fulfillment?'
Medically referred to as Designer Vagina G-Spot Amplification, it's part
of the Designer Vagina 'nip and tuck' founded by LA based cosmetic
surgeon and gynecologist, Dr Matlock.
CEO of The Laser Vaginal Rejuvination Center of LA, he pioneered vaginal
cosmetic surgery in the USA 12 years ago. To date he has seen over 51 000
women from over 30 countries from the ages of 19 through 70, for
different types of sexually enhancing vaginal surgery (visit
www.drmatlock.com). His services provide no shortage of things you can
have done: Laser Vaginal Rejuvination (LVR) makes you tighter by
decreasing the diameter of the vaginal opening, and Designer Laser
Vaginoplasty (DLV) improves the look of the vagina by removing blemishes,
and skin, changing the shape of the labia.
'Lots of women bring in Playboy magazine asking to look like the pictures
in there,' he says, 'and we're usually able to help everyone.' Both
procedures cost between US$3800 and US$8000.
Even though The G-shot has only recently been publicly launched, already
he's seen 60 women.
'Because my job is to enhance sexual gratification for women through
cosmetic surgery, my mind is always fertile for finding new ways to do
it, and one day I just woke up and thought why not augment the g-spot?
It's already turned on, and capable of undergoing extreme sexual
pleasure, so making it bigger will make it more readily accessible to
sexual intercourse, masturbation and sex toys.'
On a study he performed on 20 women, 87% experienced sexual
gratification, from having their g-spots augmented from the standard size
of a dime (AUS five cent piece) to a half dollar (AUS one dollar coin).
He uses what he terms a 'secret formulated substance with an active
ingredient of collagen', likening it to the secret recipe in Coco-Cola
that no one is allowed to disclose.
'There's over 25 medications and 200 devices for male impotence and it
takes 800 million dollars to bring just one of these drugs to research
and development,' he argues. 'Is there even one drug in there for women
to reach orgasmic pleasure? No, women have been left behind. If this was
a male problem it would've been looked at solved and researched a long
time ago.' He adds with exuberance, 'this by far is the most
revolutionary invention pertaining to human female sexual response.'
And for Rosemary, she believes it is.
'Sex is instantly different!' she beams with a smile that seems to last
forever. 'As soon as the penis entered I felt undulating waves of
sensation like never before, and even though I'd had orgasms, these were
much more intense.'
And even though she didn't tell the guy she was dating at the time that
she'd had it done, she professed that he left the house the next morning
with a big smile thinking he was the biggest stud ever, having given her
endless orgasms.
'The experience left me feeling more aware and sexually empowered; my sex
life was instantly better and my date and I orgasmed together. Long gone
are the days of sex just being about men.'
Dr Jennifer Berman, an LA based Urologist, and her sister Dr Laura
Berman, an LA based sex therapist, agree with Dr Matlock that women lag
about ten years behind men in sexual research, but stress that it's not
the psychological and emotional reasons that research has gone into men,
but because there are men who physically cannot have sex.
'These are medical and physical reasons men couldn't perform. If a woman
can't perform, she can still have sex and become pregnant,' says Dr
Jennifer Berman.
'But the issue I have with the G-Shot,' she adds, 'is injecting collagen
into an area with increased nerves. Bigger doesn't necessarily mean
better. And from an anatomic, physiological and medical perspective, even
though the nerves become bigger doesn't mean they become more sensitive.'
According to Dr Jennifer Berman, an inflammatory agent such as collagen
doesn't increase nerve endings, but increases scar tissue and
inflammation, which could end up damaging the nerves, causing pain,
numbness or worse, sexual dysfunction, like ending up with no sensation
there at all.
Sex therapist, Laura Berman says Rosemary's on target in her intuitive
sense that men want to feel successful in giving a woman pleasure,
because it's a large part of a man's self-esteem and self-worth to be
able to have his partner orgasm.
'Consequently it gives her less performance anxiety, because she knows
her partner wants and expects her to have an orgasm, so it takes the
pressure off her. But it's certainly a quick fix that's expensive and
unnecessary.'
'What actually causes women to have orgasms,' adds Dr Jennifer Berman 'is
the contraction of the area, which makes the nerves respond. So basically
I'd like to know these women's sexual history; they may already have been
orgasmic women. So you need more controlled studies.'
Fellow Cosmetic Surgeon, LA based Dr Jan Adams, agrees.
'I believe it's great for women who have an 'issue' with their bodies, to
have cosmetic surgery, but from a scientific viewpoint, this procedure
needs a lot more research.'
He cites that it's only Dr Matlock performing it at the moment, who's
only done a 'retrospective study', which means that all 60 women who've
had it done say they think the procedure has worked. However, there's
also a study called the 'proactive controlled study', where half the
people trialling it should be given a fake injection, just to see if they
'think' there's a difference.
'These studies often show people believe the hype. I'd also hope these
women were being tested to see if they have an allergic reaction to the
bovine collagen used, as it's from cows, and can cause allergic
reactions.'
But it's not stopping women like 38 year old real-estate agent, *Robin
having it done.
'I've already had lots of surgery by Dr Matlock: liposuction, DVL, LVR
and because of this he asked if I'd like to be part of the G-Shot
research group. I figured that even though sex was already great, I
wanted to try something new and exciting.'
Like Rosemary she described the feeling of having continual waves of
sensation once the penis entered, which felt like she was having one
endless orgasm, and loved that she came first. But her tone changes to
one of disappointment now that five months later the collagen has worn
off.
'Even though it's an amazing experience and I recommend it to any woman
wanting to try something new and different, I'm not going to spend
US$1850 every few months to have it done.'
What she did discover though was that her g-spot was bigger than the
average size.
'The normal size is a dime ( AUS five cent piece), and mine was already
the size of a half dollar (AUS 50 cents), and it blew up to a bigger size
than that. So I got to have lots of orgasms, and confirm the myth that
the g-spot does exist and now I know where it is so I can locate it.'
Dr Matlock has one condition; every woman who wants the G-Shot must
understand her own anatomy and how to find her g-spot first. He even
explains to them that if they put their finger in the roof of their mouth
that's how the g-spot feels when it's aroused; spungy.
'Most women don't even know it exists, let alone where it exists. So on a
model of the vagina we show them where it is, which is in the upper
vaginal wall in the midline and then we want them to find it themselves,
and they always do.'
Once they find it, they put their legs in the stirrups and direct Dr
Matlock to the area. After he measures where it is using a speculum, he
injects a local anesthetic to numb the pain, followed by the collagen
injection, using a needle less than the size a seamstress uses.
'It's optional for them to take antibiotics for the next two days, but
they can't have sex for at least four hours. It will last four months and
if they want to continue it they come back.'
32 year old Nancy had a bit of a different experience. Like Robin, she'd
had lots of vaginal surgery already: Laser Vaginal Rejuvination, and
Designer Vaginal Labioplasty, so was offered by Dr Matlock to have the G-
Shot as an introductory offer of US$1000.
'I was really nervous because I'd just had my vagina tightened so when Dr
Matlock put the speculum in to insert the anesthetic it killed! But I
bared the pain and just asked him to hurry up, which was ok because it
was over in 15 minutes.'
48 hours later she masturbated and could instantly feel the difference.
'As soon as my fingers entered my vagina I could feel my g-spot and I
started having intense orgasms that lasted twice as long as normal. It
also made me feel really horny because I was able to achieve orgasm much
faster.'
She says having the G-shot also improved her sex life one hundred
percent.
'It increased my libido, and sex and masturbation are better. But I don't
think I'd have it again because I don't want to pay that much money, even
though I think it's definitely worth investing in, especially if you've
never had an orgasm.'
Dr Laura Berman, says it makes her very sad that women go to such great
lengths of expense and interference with their natural bodies in order to
reach ideals that in this case are not necessarily unattainable.
'Unless a woman has some sort of genetic or musculature problem, or some
reason why her vagina's not functioning properly she should not need
surgery in order to do so.'
She also cites that it's interesting none of the women interviewed had
long term loving relationships.
'If you have a successful sexual encounter you're going to want to do it
more and you'll have a happier sex life because of it. But for a woman
who has tried everything: having sex with a loving partner where she felt
safe, honored, empowered and good about herself and her body, and she'd
done all the pelvic floor exercises that help reach orgasm, and had
experimented with finding her g-spot and self stimulation, all of which
lead to a happier sex life, and still wasn't able to have an orgasm, then
go and try the shot.'
Even then she adds that she'd still give it to two women: one with a fake
injection and one with the collagen.
'Men are always trying to find ways to make their penises bigger, so it
makes sense for a male to try and come up with a procedure to make women
instantly have orgasms. At the end of the day I believe it's a fad, and
I'm not buying in to without a lot more research.'