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The elusive G-spot, a holy grail of lovers, now has an anatomical location precisely described in the medical literature thanks to a Florida researcher who dissected the cadaver of an 83-year-old woman.

For centuries, women have said they've enjoyed engorgement of the upper, anterior part of the vagina during sexual arousal, but it has never been formally described in medical literature.

In the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Dr. Adam Ostrzenski of the Institute of Gynecology in St. Petersburg, Fla., describes where he found the G-spot while dissecting the 83-year-old cadaver in Poland.

"The anatomic existence of the G-spot was documented with potential impact on the practice and clinical research in the field of female sexual function," Ostrzenski concluded.

The dissection revealed the G-spot was on the dorsal or back perineal membrane, 16.5 millimetres from the upper part of the urethra, creating a 35-degree angle with the lateral or side border of the structure.

When the spot, which he described as "bluish grapeline compositions," was removed from a sac, it extended to 33 millimetres suggesting it was designed to contract and expand, he said.

"The anatomic discovery of the G-spot existence may inspire a new study for establishing the anatomic presence of 'a female prostate.'"

Ostrzenski also backed calls to revise traditional approaches in textbooks to female organ anatomy coupled with new terminologies.

The G-spot in the cadaver was under five layers of connective tissue and muscle in an area that is not normally accessed during gynecological surgery. Ostrzenski acknowledged he examined only one cadaver soon after death and he was unable to take tissue samples for confirmation.

"This case study in a single cadaver adds to the growing body of literature regarding women's sexual anatomy and physiology," the journal's editor in chief, Irwin Goldstein, said in a release.

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Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy's executive producer Shonda Rhimes has confirmed to me exclusively that a beloved character will die in the ABC drama's May 17 season finale. "A lot of our writers were crying, which is a very rare thing," she says. "There's some really shocking, horrible moments."

It can't be worse than the bloodshed two years ago when a crazed gunman hunted the doctors like animals, can it? "Yeah, it is," says Rhimes. "People's mettle is going to be tested."

Writing the episode, she adds, was sheer "torture... I've been sitting with my head in my hands for days. I understand the choice I made, but it scares me how fans are going to react."

Fans began voicing their concern when Rhimes recently tweeted a quote from author Kurt Vonnegut: "Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of." Yikes! The ominous quote, Rhimes says, was just what she needed to give her "the courage to do what we're doing in the finale."

The heart-stopping drama begins in the May 10 episode with "a big case that takes a group of our people out of the hospital. It's sort of the medical case of their lives," says Rhimes, hinting that the patient could possibly be one of their own.

That episode will also give us our first glimpse of Derek and Meredith's completed dream house. While Rhimes originally planned for the season to end with the couple watching in horror as their new home burned to the ground, she says, "I was not ready to do that."

Instead, the dream house is being constructed and is "quite beautiful. I feel like this is the moment for it, since Meredith and Derek are having a debate about their future. I just hope we can use it next season."

While she's keeping much of the finale secret, Rhimes does offer a few specifics. Fans can look forward to some "extraordinarily romantic Ben and Dr. Bailey stuff," with Bailey making a decision "that will fundamentally change her life."

And keenly aware that "Mark and Lexie fans have been very adamant about them getting back together, they'll have some very beautiful moments with one another that I hope the fans are going to really love," Rhimes says.

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Sarah Drew, Jesse Williams

"No it's not a dream. They do make out for real!"

There you have it, folks! The recent Grey's Anatomy promos don't lie: Sarah Drew confirms that April and Jackson (Jesse Williams) will be hooking up in this Thursday's episode, when the doctors travel to San Francisco to take their medical boards.

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Does this mean April will finally be deflowered? Drew was mum on that front (which we'll take as a "yes.") "That is still up in air," she says. Their fling springs from the stresses of taking the medical boards, which will decide the doctors' fates and also help them land jobs that will take them away from Seattle Grace.

"April goes a little crazy," Drew says. "She is super anxious, super just full of panic and anxiety about doing well or failing and she doesn't really know what to do with all of this extra energy and is jumping out of her skin. She does a lot of things that are really surprising and out of character for her that leads to some pretty fantastic fallout afterwards." In case you missed the promo, she also punches a guy in the face.

The hookup, in particular, will lead to a very interesting turn of events heading into the final episodes of the season. "It's going to bite both of them in the ass because they both walk away from that being confused by the whole thing," Drew says. "The writers have really written a very interesting journey for April and Jackson over the next four episodes. We see a lot of conflict and confusion -- how do you continue to be friends after something like that happens?

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"What we'll see that lasts is their deep abiding friendship and the fact that they really do care for one another on a very deep level that isn't just butterflies and romance at all. There's also something big that's revealed about April, something about her character that's revealed at the end of this week's episode that also plays into everything that happens between the two of them and rest of the episodes of the season."

Even though Lexie (Chyler Leigh) has turned her attention back towards Mark (Eric Dane), will the sudden hookup destroy the relationship she shares with April? That remains to be seen since no one will learn of their tryst. "April and Jackson are not sharing their confusion with anybody else," she says. "So nobody else in the hospital knows anything has happened between the two of them."

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Grey's Anatomy, Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey

Get ready for another heartbreaking hour of Grey's Anatomy in the Season 8 finale when the docs must rally on what could be their last day working together as many of Seattle Grace's familiar faces will have already accepted jobs at other hospitals!

"There is a very complex thing that occurs for many of our characters that places a lot of them in a position to discover what they're made of," the ever-tight-lipped Grey's boss Shonda Rhimes teases of the major event that erupts in the season-ender. (Seriously, she said "thing.") "I don't know that you could guess it," she says.

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Challenge accepted! Could it be a forest fire that threatens to claim Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) recently finished McMansion? Maybe a rescue helicopter will fall from the roof and crush one of the docs? (Wait a minute; that sounds familiar.) Rhimes' only clue: When we asked whether this incident is similar to the devastating ferry boat crash or the rampaging shooter from seasons past, she replied, "Yes. That's a yes to both!"

In a year where contract negotiations of key cast members are also still up in the air, Rhimes has appeared to create a perfect out should some of our favorite doctors not return. "People will take jobs at different hospitals," Rhimes says, noting that the docs will make their decisions in the penultimate episode. We've already seen that Cristina (Sandra Oh) is the most eager to get out of Dodge, but, in a surprising twist, we learned last week that Meredith's long-time home is not her first choice. Who may leave? "The plan is, at the end of the season, our doctors will do what residents all over the country do, which is to accept jobs at different hospitals," she says. Could some docs stick around Seattle Grace? "Not at the end of the season," Rhimes teases, noting that one of many possibilities is that some doctors will return in the potential ninth season, should ABC decide to renew the series.

With that in mind, we wondered: Is someone going to die? The medical drama has never shied away from killing off main characters it takes place in a hospital, after all but Rhimes was coy about whether or not the event would bring the Grim Reaper to town. "I don't want to answer this question," she said bluntly, only noting that the event would be dangerous. "It's very dark and twisty," she said. "It was really hard [to write] because I'm all happy; I have a baby [now]."

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"We're taking our characters on a journey they've never been on before," she adds. "To me, it's a very shocking thing that I chose to do and I was really stressed-out about doing it, and it took me a long time, so I kept taking the finale apart and putting it back together. It's also a very emotional episode. I always feel like when an episode really scares me, when I spend a lot of time with my head in my hands wondering how the fans are going to take it, and worry that they're going to, I don't know, stone me in the streets, I kind of know that it's good."

In that sense, this finale will be almost a polar opposite to last year's, which saw Meredith and Derek hit another rough patch when she tampered with the Alzheimer's clinical trial. "I feel like last year's finale was very quiet for a reason," Rhimes says. "Our characters had been through so much in terms of having dealt with the shooting and getting over that and coming to a place where really their decisions were about their growth as people Meredith and her baby and Cristina and her pregnancy. This season, I feel like the theme of the episode is graduation, and there is a huge sense of nostalgia in this episode in terms of what you're looking at. This could very well be the last time these doctors are working together. This could very well be the last day for some of these doctors here."

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ANATOMY OF A MURDER Criterion Collection / 1959 / 161 min. / NR

Otto Preminger was a bald, teutonic film director with an outsized personality he put to good use during his heyday. Not only was Preminger a regular raconteur on the TV talk show circuit in the 1960s and 70s, he lent his acting skills to projects such as Billy Wilders STALAG 17 and played the villainous Mr. Freeze in 1966 on the BATMAN television series. An migr from Austria to the United States, Preminger directed theatre and several little-seen films before he broke through to A-list status in 1944, directing the hit movie, LAURA.

From then on, Otto Preminger worked steadily, building a reputation for tackling controversial material that pushed the boundaries of taste and censorship. Like many directors of his era, when the New Hollywood exploded in the 1960s with films like THE GRADUATE, BONNIE AND CLYDE and EASY RIDER, Preminger started to appear more and more like a dinosaur mired in the muck of the past. He tried to adapt to the counterculture, most notoriously with SKIDOO, a 1968 fiasco with Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon and Groucho Marx as God. But by then, Premingers best work was clearly behind him. And looking back in the rearview mirror, his artistic pinnacle might very well have been 1959s ANATOMY OF A MURDER.

A courtroom drama (a popular film genre before this kind of storytelling moved almost exclusively to network television), ANATOMY OF A MURDER is notable for several reasons. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by John D. Voelker (who based it on an actual case on which he served as defense attorney) by frequent Preminger collaborator, Wendell Mayes. In the story, struggling small town lawyer Paul Biegler (James Stewart) takes on the defense of surly soldier, Lt. Fred Manion (Ben Gazzara), accused of killing a man whom he claims raped his stunningly sexy wife, Laura (stunningly sexy Lee Remick). In the course of the trial, the attorneys talk openly about the presence or absence of sperm on the alleged rape victim, as well as the status of her panties. Though this kind of dialogue can be heard any time of day on various LAW AND ORDERs and CSIs, this was shocking material for audiences to be hearing in a studio movie in 1959.

If you find the already-mentioned cast intriguing and they are all excellent then add to that Eve Arden as Bieglers wise-cracking secretary, Arthur OConnell as his alcoholic but still legally sharp attorney best friend, Orson Bean as an official witness, and in an early role, the great George C. Scott as prosecutor Claude Dancer. The film is an acting tour de force, worth checking out on that level alone.

Preminger chose to shoot the movie in the location where the novel was set and the real-life story took place. He brought his cast and crew to a small town on Michigans Upper Peninsula, and the setting gives the picture a feeling of verisimilitude that could never be accomplished on a studio back lot. His other daring choice was to hire the American genius jazz composer and bandleader, Duke Ellington, to score the movie. While jazz-influenced scores were not uncommon in the 1950s, they usually graced smaller budget noir movies in urban settings. Here, Ellingtons music makes a huge contribution to the mood and texture of the film, and the Duke, himself, shows up, sharing the piano keys with Jimmy Stewart in a local bar.

ANATOMY OF A MURDER is really about the American legal process. Manions guilt or innocence is never truly established in the audiences mind. But juries have to make life-and-death decisions based on evidence presented by skilled and flawed attorneys, who cannot help but approach their jobs with their own human biases. What Preminger portrays so beautifully in the film is the very ambiguity that defines our legal system. Clearly 2/3 of this 161 minute film takes place in the confines of the courtroom, and Preminger never ceases to have his camera in the right place to visually convey the shifting dynamics of the story. The courtroom becomes a stage with the battling lawyers the key actors. By todays standards, the movie is a bit long-winded, but ANATOMY OF A MURDER is a landmark film that takes an incisive look at American jurisprudence.

THE DISC A beautiful black and white 1080p transfer from the Criterion Collection. This is a state-of-the-art video presentation.

A single-channel LPCM 1.0 mono track and a DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio track are both available. They both sound fantastic, with the surround track providing a bit more dynamic range, especially when it comes to Duke Ellingtons landmark score.

EXTRAS A typically comprehensive set of supplements from Criterion, including:

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I stumbled upon this piece while perusing Flickr, which by the way has a huge art community in addition to the photography base of the site.  After contacting the artist, Leigh, a textile crafts student at the University of Huddersfield, she was kind enough to email back with an explanation of the project that goes beyond the simple anatomy.

The work is made of 2 sheets of perspex laser cut into the shape of the human form. Each individual stitch hole was plotted precisely to map out the veins (sheet 1) and arteries (sheet 2). I then hand stitched with linen thread to trace out the blood vessels.

The work was inspired by my current final year university project based on my niece who suffer’s from a rare blood disorder called Diamond Blackfan Anaemia (DBA). This means her bone marrow does not reproduce red blood cells, causing her to become severly anaemic very fast. As a result, she has to have blood transufsions every 4-5 weeks.

A major part of my project is workng on The Blood Bag Project, a craft project that aims to raise awareness of DBA and encourage people not only to donate blood but help in another way by creating textile blood bags. I am unable to donate blood myself and so understand the frustration this can cause to those who want to. By joining the Blood Bag Project, those people can help the blood cause in another way. I intend to exhibit the donated bags and eventually sell them to raise money for blood disease charities.

For more informaton about The Blood Bag Project, please visit the following:
Website: http://www.wix.com/leighlalovesyou/thebloodbagproject
Blog: http://www.thebloodbagproject.tumblr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebloodbagproject

View more of Leigh’s work via her Flickr.

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