In fact, if it's got anything to do with needles or scalpels and it's not absolutely essential, count me out. Most especially if it's down there.

But then I might feel differently if it was my sexual satisfaction at stake. And that's exactly what the marketers of the G-Shot injection are counting on, promising increased pleasure and effortless orgasms – an essential procedure indeed.

Size is everything
There's a lot of contention, still, about the g-spot and the latest somewhat spotty study (see my previous column ) out of Italy implied that baby, you either got it, or you don't.

Not so, say the good people behind the G-Shot. It's just that it's not big enough (thereby introducing womankind to the inadequacy syndrome men have had to deal with all their lives).

Luckily, they say, it's easily set right with a collagen injection into the vaginal wall to plump up the sensitive tissue and, theoretically, your orgasms too!

At what cost pleasure?
Of course, it's not cheap at $1850 a shot (that's about R14 700), which will typically carry you over four months. But hey, it's worth it, right? Maybe not.

The procedure is not FDA-approved, and "despite the stringent donor screening involved in the preparation of the collagen, the transmission of infectious agents cannot be entirely excluded."

It's too new to know what the long-term side-effects might be, but the ones you can get right now from allergic reactions, itching and redness to urinary tract infections, bleeding, infections, abscess formation, scarring and lumpiness, yeast infections, painful intercourse, a feeling of always being sexually aroused and worst of all, no effect at all.

Yep, that's right. You could drop the down payment on an economy model car and not getting anything for your pains.

What it feels like
While the G-Shot's website includes glowing reviews from conveniently anonymous patients testifying to new heights of pleasure and multiple orgasms since they've had the procedure, US comedian Margaret Cho was rather less enthusiastic in her hilarious blog about the experience .

It was very painful – she says she needed anaesthesia for the anaesthesia shot – and the results were less than satisfactory. She blogs, "My vagina just feels like there is a gel insole in there. Like my cervix is wearing boot socks. I am totally asexual and I feel like I am sitting on a hemorrhoid donut all the time."

Practical alternatives
A friend of mine in London swears by her clitoral piercing. Sure it hurt like a razor sharp needle stabbed through your most sensitive nerve endings, but it's worth it, she says, for her newfound ability to get off from the slightest provocation, including the vibrations of the bus.

For those of us for whom the idea of orgasming on public transport is less than appealing, there is another option – assuming of course, that you're a believer.

Go out and find your g-spot. Even if you don't, the exploration can be rewarding in itself.

There's a great how-to here and here.

But even more importantly than finding a specific pleasure centre that may or may not exist depending on who you speak to, is finding out what gets you off.

How far would you go for satisfaction? Would you get a G-shot? Post your comments below