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.'