# Sexuality: The Kivin Method and the X Spot

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexuality-the-kivin-method-and-the-x-spot/150007>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 21, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexuality-the-kivin-method-and-the-x-spot/150007 "2003-01-21T17:29:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![KenP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@KenP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KenP)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexuality-the-kivin-method-and-the-x-spot/150007/1 "2003-01-21T17:29:55Z")

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In his article, “Sex Week at Yale,” in the January issue of Atlantic magazine, Ron Rosenbaum writes,

“I came across two technical terms in _The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex_ that I had not encountered before: the Kivin Method and the X Spot.”

Apparently, these involve “new erogenous zones.” But Rosenbaum says that a full explanation is too racy for the pages of Atlantic. I think I can handle it. Can anyone clue me in on either term?

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexuality-the-kivin-method-and-the-x-spot/150007/2 "2003-01-21T18:27:42Z")

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Purposely munged borderline-non-work-friendly URL (hair over nipples but still…)

“The Kivin Method®  
The Kivin Method: Guaranteed Intense Orgasms by Cunnilingus ! : The new discovery of Mr. Kivin’s erogenous zones Points K and C …”

www. [kivinprod.com/anglais](http://kivinprod.com/anglais)

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**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexuality-the-kivin-method-and-the-x-spot/150007/3 "2003-01-21T18:32:44Z")

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Hhhhmmm… sounds interesting.

Here ya go:  
[http://www.kivinprod.com/anglais](http://www.kivinprod.com/anglais)

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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexuality-the-kivin-method-and-the-x-spot/150007/4 "2003-01-21T18:38:15Z")

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oh yeah, is this the sideways on thing?  
very nice.

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**Author:** ![AZCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@AZCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AZCowboy)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexuality-the-kivin-method-and-the-x-spot/150007/5 "2003-01-21T19:03:09Z")

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My skepticism comes from the fact that most references to these two techniques are trying to sell you something.

The Kivin technique is simply a new “spin” on oral clitoral stimulation. You can read a summary of the technique [here](http://www.menshealth.com/sex2/seduce_her.shtml) (see “Under her Undies…”)

The X-spot is a reference to the female prostrate, a place between the cervix and the bladder. It is reputed to be the third errogenous zone besides the G-spot and the clitoris.

While the Kivin technique has some unbiased supporters, the X-Spot hype sounds more designed to sell books than pleasure women.