Has doctor found elusive G spot?

New findings in the decades-long search for the G spot, considered by many to be the holy grail of women's sexual pleasure, are creating a sensation.

Dr. Adam Ostrzenski, a semiretired gynecologist in St. Petersburg, Fla., said he discovered it last fall during a postmortem exam of an 83-year-old woman at a university in his native Poland.

His findings, detailed in an article published Wednesday in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, have brought him worldwide attention, from the Los Angeles Times to the BBC. His phone has been ringing nearly nonstop. He's flying to New York to appear on the popular TV show "The View."

Is the 71-year-old physician reveling in this burst of fame?

"Honestly, I don't like it," he said.

But isn't the attention to his life's work a good thing?

"It also takes me away from my work," he said, conducting what he said was his 57th media interview.

His daughter, Dr. Kasia Ostrzenska, a general practitioner, said that while in surgery, many times he had observed a vaginal tissue structure that he wanted to know more about, and this helped prompt the study.

He traveled in September to Poland, where regulations permit dissection of human remains soon after death, when it's easier to see fine distinctions in tissue.

He said he peeled back the six layers of the cadaver's vaginal wall and found a sac structure between the fifth and sixth layers that housed grape-like clusters of erectile tissue.

The dissection took seven hours for the Poland-trained physician and anatomist, who said he was inspired by the first principles of medicine "first you have to establish the anatomy." If confirmed by further investigation, he said, he hopes his finding will help rewrite anatomy books.

He plans to return to Poland in May for additional studies.

While the psychological aspects of female desire get more attention, Ostrzenski's report recognizes that "women have anatomy issues that contribute to their sexual problems," said Dr. Michael Krychman, director of the Southern California Center for Sexual Health. "There are remedies -- physical remedies -- that can be brought to bear on those."

Others see fatal flaws in the study and are busily preparing scientific rebuttals.

Beverly Whipple, the Rutgers University sexologist who popularized the name "G spot" as co-author of a 1982 book on the subject, is among the critics complaining that his study doesn't point out research on the complexity of the female orgasm.

"No, there's not an 'it,'" Whipple said. "It is not one entity."

Nor, she and her colleagues say, did Ostrzenski show that the G spot he found has nerve endings or that it has any role in female sexual arousal.

"Everything which is new creates skepticism," he said.

Nevertheless, he considers his study a key moment in the search to determine whether a G spot actually exists.

Kasia Ostrzenska, while dismayed at the negative reaction, said she's pleased that her father's work also is getting positive attention. Many of her patients are women who suffer from libido issues as they get older.

"Once we settle down in a relationship, have children, have careers, we can have a difficult time finding that 'on button,'" said Ostrenska, 43. "...We are different creatures sexually."