The latest in sexual freedom: The G-Shot

I’m a fan of plastic surgery- I would only be called the “sexy large breasted conspiracy chick” without it. If you don’t like something about your body, can’t change it through diet and exercise, and if you can afford surgery, you should be able to change it.

Well known procedures like breast augmentation and rhinoplasty can positively change your appearance but these days, you can change your sex life with procedures such as labia trim, vaginal tightening, and anal bleaching. The latest procedure on the plastics menu is the G-Shot. It is described as:

painless and the procedure is performed in your doctor’s office under local anesthesia. A specially designed speculum is used to assist to deliver a specified amount of collagen directly into the G-Spot. The actual injection usually takes less than 8 seconds and the total time in the examination room is usually less than 10-15 minutes. The G-Shot® creates a G-Spot about the size of a “quarter” in diameter with an internal projection of about 3-5 mm. The G-Shot last about 4 months (results may vary) and requires repeat injection every three months to maintain the effect.

The shot seems to be heading into the mainstream and yesterday, the San Fransico Chronicle reported:

In the case of Roberts (a pseudonym used at her request to protect her privacy), she was unsure whether the G-spot existed, and if it truly held the key to a vibrant sex life. But she was willing to find out.

“If I could come home like my husband, have sex and feel that release,” Roberts said before her appointment, “I’d be one happy woman. But instead I come home, I spend all this time concentrating, hoping something will happen and I just end up frustrated.”

The procedure, which has been performed on approximately 250 women nationally in the past two years at a cost of $1,850 each, appealed to Roberts because she felt life’s rigmarole had left her fatigued by the end of the day, hardly in an amorous mood. Even when she felt the surge of excitement, reaching an orgasm was a time-consuming endeavor that took more effort and energy than she and her husband had to offer.

If the arrival of the G-Shot sounds like an easy fix to an age-old dilemma, it’s also viewed by sexologists and academics as a reminder that in today’s post-Viagra world, a dynamic sex life has become a cultural expectation. The focus on orgasms — great, multiple, easily attainable — has been in full swing since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but it has reached a fevered pitch in recent years, sociologists and sex researchers say, now that billions of dollars are spent on medical and pharmaceutical remedies that promise sexual enlightenment in a single pill or, in the case of the G-Shot, a single injection.

There are critics of course.

“The G-Shot capitalizes on this assumed reality,” said Lenore Tiefer, a psychiatrist at the NYU School of Medicine. “In the post-Viagra world there are escalating expectations, based on false and pseudoscientific information. That in itself creates a cultural insecurity around sex.”

Traditionally, Tiefer said, sexual enhancement, as the G-Shot is also advertised, has been the domain of sex stores, via such merchandise as pornography and sex toys. But now, as a glorified sex life has become something of a national obsession, the role has shifted from the sex store to the doctor’s office. To gather opposition around the idea that sexuality can be enhanced through medical procedures and pharmacology, Tiefer co-founded a group of academics, medical clinicians and therapists in 2002 called the New View Campaign.

Instead of doctor intervention to promote sex, Tiefer’s group advocates that couples open the lines of verbal communication, or turn to talk therapy.

A feminist psychiatrist compares sexual enhancement to pornography and sex toys and recommends therapy- what a surprise. Great sex isn’t all there is to a happy relationship, but happy bedroom experiences often spill over into other areas of a marriage. As do bad experiences. If everything in your relationship is working well except the sex, therapy at $149.14 an hour seems steeply priced in time and money.

I’m fortunate to have no need of the G-Shot, but I’m glad it’s available. If I ever find that my sexual life needs enhancement, I would happily spend $1850 for instant help. If my marital relationship is what needs fixing, I’ll invest the same money for 12 hours of therapy. I live, for the time being anyway, in a free country.

~ by Miche on June 4, 2007.