Co-Author of Study Skeptical the G-Spot Is Having Second Thoughts

NICE, France (Feb. 3) -- In a bit of a scientific anticlimax, the co-author of a controversial British study indicating the fabled G-spot does not exist has backed down slightly after a group of French gynecologists denounced her findings as typically asexual British pragmatism.

Andrea Burri, 29, who happens to be Swiss-Portuguese, sounded stunned by the international furor that erupted after her study's release last month.

The study, in which scientists asked 1,804 identical and non-identical twins if they thought they had a G-spot, concluded by saying "there is no physiological or physical basis for the G-spot."

But today Burri sounded less confident of her role as a myth-buster and more open to the existence of the sexual Holy Grail.

"It was never our aim to say it doesn't exist," Burri told AOL News. "Our hypothesis was to prove it existed. The methods we used may not have been appropriate. We are suggesting maybe it should be done differently the next time."

Burri said a study based on an "anatomic assessment method" rather than analyzing if the G-spot has an underlying genetic basis, as her tests did, might yield evidence that it truly exists.

Burri said she "stopped reading" the attacks on her study, which she co-authored with Lynn Cherkas and Tim Spector at King's College in London. "They got too personal and plus I'm not even British," she said.

The prominent Parisian gynecologist Sylvain Mimoun, 61, has led the French outcry, insisting "le point G" does exist and claiming that 60 percent of his patients have one.

Part of the problem with Burri's study, he said, was that the test subjects were British. French women, being more relaxed around sex, are "much more likely to find their G spot and play with it."

"The French are pretty much Latin people," Mimoun said in an interview today. "Strict morals are not so much an issue for us with sex. But the Anglo-Saxon mentality is often preoccupied with that which is authorized and that which is forbidden. They are more black and white and not as comfortable with the ambiguities of sex."

One of Mimoun's colleagues, Odile Buisson, also claimed the study was flawed in part because it was British.

"I don't want to stigmatize at all but I think the Protestant, liberal, Anglo-Saxon character means you are very pragmatic," said Buisson. "There has to be a cause for everything, a gene for everything. I think it's totalitarian."