We lost a legend in sexual health and medicine. If you’re a fan of my work, you’re a fan of her work, too.

We lost a legend on November 2nd, 2026.
You know those fMRI brain scans that found how cervical stimulation could induce orgasm in people even with spinal cord damage and zero sensation from the clitoris?
And that there were other ways people with spinal cord or nerve damage could experience pleasure, through breath and tension and visualizing energy moving up the body?
Yeah, Dr. Beverly Whipple was key to making that research happen.
In the early 1980s, Dr. Whipple also popularized the concept of the clitourethrovaginal complex — or what we call the G-spot — to stimulate the clitoris and nearby structures from (literally) a different angle.
She pushed for medical practitioners to care for pelvic floor function in the context of pleasure — in addition to the usual discussions of childbirth and aging.
Her research on breath and energy orgasms took place in parallel with Barbara Carellas, who taught her queer community how to experience sacred sexuality and orgasms without direct genital touch, at the peak of the AIDs epidemic.
Dr. Whipple’s research is a big grounding force for me in advocating for women to know their options for experiencing pleasure — and that while the clitoris is the primary driver of orgasm for women, it doesn’t have to be the only one.
Thanks to Whipple, Komisaruk, and others, we have the fMRI scans validating cervical orgasms, nipple orgasms, breath and energy orgasms, and more.
Thank you, Dr. Whipple, for affirming that, while what gets me off is niche, the science supports it.
Thank you for caring about women’s pleasure in spaces where that wasn’t the standard before.
Thank you for raising awareness of all these hot spots and the quirky ways brains are wired.
Thank you for getting curious and encouraging others to do the same.
Thank you, Dr. Beverly Whipple, for sharing your intellectual gifts with science, medicine, and with women in general.
Rest in pleasure and power. May your memory continue to be a revolution.
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