Male G-spot has finally been found and it's not where you thought it was

After years of searching, the official male G-spot had supposedly been found.

More formally known as 'erogenous zones', G-spots are areas of the body with heightened nerve sensitivity that, when stimulated, can trigger sexual arousal, pleasure, or increased blood flow.

In both men and women, this stimulation is largely associated with genitals - the clitoris in women, and the penis in men.

Other common hot-spots include the lips, neck, ears, abdomen and feet, and for women, the nipples and inner thighs also serve as prime locations for the tingles down below.

Recent statistics have shown that provocation of the prostate gland has been associated with deep sexual pleasure - so much so that some sexperts have dubbed this region the male G-spot.

The frenula delta is something of a mystery (Getty Stock Image)

Apparently, however, a new study has hugely contradicted this verdict, suggesting that the real G-spot is several centimetres north, in a largely overlooked area of the penis.

As documented in the latest issue of the scientific journal, Andology, the real 'on-switch' is thought to be in the frenula delta, the triangular area at the underside of the penis, where the head meets the shaft.

This region of the phallus has long been considered something of a biological mystery, to the extent that it's often left out of sexual health textbooks (via New Scientist).

Despite this, scientists at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain described the frenula delta as being 'richly innervated by partially overlapping perineal (related to the region connecting genitals and anus) and dorsal (aft-facing) nerve branches'.

More nerves were found in this area than any other (Getty Stock Image)

They also discuss this area having 'heightened concentrations of nerve bundles', which serve as pleasure receptors.

The research team arrived at this conclusion after examining samples of penile tissue taken from 30 foetuses and 14 adult males who'd donated their bodies to science postmortem.

Cross sections of their nether regions were studied under a microscope in a bid to locate nerve endings.

It was subsequently found that the frenula delta held considerably more nerve bundles and receptor clusters than any other area of the penis.

"Although this may seem self-evident to anyone attuned to the sensations of their penis during sexual activity, our work scientifically validates the existence of a ventral penile anatomical region that serves as a centre of sexual sensation," one of the authors, Alfonso Cepeda-Emiliani, wrote.