Odile Buisson

Odile Buisson born Odile Poullaouec is a French gynaecologist and writer. She was a co-researcher of sonography that revealed the internal structure of the clitoris.

Life Buisson was born in Malo-les-Bains, Dunkirk. She had strict parents and gynaecology was one of the subjects that was not discussed. Her sex education happened when she was twelve. She spent her teenage years in Brittany at Saint-Nazaire. She was studying medicine and gynaecology in 1973 which is where she and her husband met.

She began a collaboration with fellow gynaecologist Pierre Foldès who she first met in 2004. Foldès surprised her by proposing that they should use ultrasound to study the structure of the g-spot and the clitoris. She was surprised that she had not thought of doing it before and she was not sure of the anatomy that they would discover. They used volunteers are they looked at the structures during sexual intercourse.

In 2010 she highlighted the discrimination by universities that resulted in there being many more studies of male as distinct from female sexuality. She was also a co-author of the paper "Who's Afraid of the G-spot? that year. 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.

In 2011 her and Foldès' book Qui a peur du point G?: le plaisir féminin, une angoisse masculine was published.

Awards Buisson was knighted in 2013 after 33 years' service and she joined the Legion of Honor.