A British research team says the elusive G-spot erogenous zone may be a myth encouraged by magazines and sex therapists, the BBC reports.

The finding of the King's College London team is published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

"It is rather irresponsible to claim the existence of an entity that has never been proven and pressurize women and men, too," says Andrea Burri, author of the study, according to the BBC.

The study involved 900 pairs of identical and non-identical twins, with the expectation that identical twins would both report having a G-spot and in the same location. But, says the BBC, the pattern did not emerge.

The BBC quotes sexologist Beverley Whipple, who helped popularize the G-spot idea , as saying the research was "flawed."

The Gräfenberg Spot, or G-Spot, was named in honor of German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg, who described it more than a half-century ago, the BBC reports.

(Posted by Doug Stanglin)