Her book sold more than a million copies and was revolutionary in helping women understand their sexual function
Ladas’s book, written with researchers Beverly Whipple and John Perry, examined the existence of the G-spot, a patch of erectile tissue that can be felt through the front wall of the vagina, behind the pubic bone. The book compared the G-spot to the male prostate: each, when stimulated, can produce a sexual response similar to an orgasm.
Some doctors questioned the depth of the authors’ research and whether the book was meant to be a medical tool or simply a how-to handbook for women “‘The G Spot’ reads like a scientific study, when it isn’t,” Martin Weisberg, then an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynaecology and psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, told the New York Times after the book was published.
However, the review said, “Among the studies in which it was considered to exist, there was no agreement on its location, size or nature.” It concluded: “The existence of this structure remains unproved.”Kahn was born in the Manhattan borough of New York city on May 30th, 1921, to Rosalie Heil Kahn, an early supporter of the Ethical Culture movement, an effort to develop humanist codes of behaviour, and Myron Daniel Kahn, a cotton merchant.
Ladas became a follower of controversial Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Reich, developer of psychosexual theories centred on the orgasm, and joined his staff in New York in the early 1950s. In 1956 she helped Reich’s student Alexander Lowen found the Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, which focuses on the bodily underpinnings of mental health.
“That’s what I’m most proud of,” she told a Smith alumni magazine for a profile of her this year. “I believe it influenced – in the United States, at least – more women to breastfeed.”
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