Beverly Whipple

Beverly Whipple is an American sexologist who is Professor Emerita at Rutgers University and a professional author. She is a co-author of the publication The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality.

Whipple in 2021

Career

Following a career in nursing, much of her academic work has been concerned with the enhancement of female sexual function. In 1981, she was co-author of Frank Addiego et al., "Female ejaculation: a case study." The paper was presented in The Journal of Sex Research and includes the first published instance of the term "G-Spot".^[1] She is an elected Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.^[2]

Publications

Following the book, Whipple continued to publicize her work, including a 9 min video made in 1981 Orgasmic Expulsions of Fluid in the Sexually Stimulated Female.^[3] In 1984, the Journal of Sex Research described the debate surrounding female ejaculation as 'heated'.^[4]

Whipple was a co-author of the paper "Who's Afraid of the G-spot?". This was a review by six scientists who looked at the available literature to investigate the phenomena known as the G-Spot. It was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine which concluded that more research was required.^[5]

Her techniques include using fMRI scans to gather evidence on what is happening in the brain.^[6] Her animal experiments contributed to the isolation of the vasoactive intestinal peptide^[7] and the discovery that orgasms can be rerouted to the brain via the vagus nerve without using the spinal cord,^[8] thus enabling females with spinal cord injury to achieve orgasm by psychological stimulation alone.^[9]

Books

The following is a list of books that have been written or co-written by Whipple.^[10]

• The G Spot: And Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality (1982) with Alice Khan Ladas and John D. Perry
• Safe Encounters: How Women Can Say Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe Sex (1989) with Gina Ogden
• Smart Women, Strong Bones (2000) with Ronda Gates
• Outwitting Osteoporosis: The Smart Woman's Guide To Bone Health (2003) with Ronda Gates
• The G Spot: And Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality (2005) with Alice Khan Ladas and John D. Perry
• The Science of Orgasm (2006) with Barry R. Komisaruk and Carlos Beyer-Flores
• Women's Sexualities: Generations of Women Share Intimate Secrets of Sexual Self-Acceptance (2006) with Carol Rinkleib Ellison
• The Orgasm Answer Guide (2009) with Barry Komisaruk, Sara Nasserzadeh and Carlos Beyer-Flores