Related: 7 Photos Of Your Cervix You Need To See She notes that labia majora reduction surgeries are actually a thing.īut, there are other solutions: Camelflage, for example, is brand of undies with special sewn-in liners that fight the dreaded camel toe. “One of the complaints I get is, ‘It’s too poofy,’” Horton says, which can make some women self-conscious about bulges in, say, yoga pants. Just like some women sport thicker middles and others carry more junk in the trunk, some women’s outer lips pack extra padding. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Watch an OB-GYN explain whether sex can stretch out your vagina: “Not everyone wants Barbie's ,” she says. (Yes, it kind of resembles a fortune cookie.) And when most women seek out labiaplasties, this is the look they are going for, says Karen Horton, M.D., a plastic surgeon in San Francisco who specializes in female cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, including labiaplasty.īut while this type is common, it’s certainly not universal-or even universally desired, Horton says. If your tour de vaginas is limited to textbooks and porn, this type -in which the labia majora, or the outer lips, neatly envelope the labia minora, clitoris, and vaginal opening-is likely what you assume all normal labia look like. And guess what? Yours is undoubtedly on the list. To prove our point, we talked to top gynos-and got creative in the drawing room-to share explanations and illustrations of what "normal" labia look like.
Currently, more than 12,000 procedures are performed by ASPS members per year, a 39 percent increase from previous years.īut before rushing to alter your lady parts, understand that almost all shapes, sizes, textures, and colors of labia are normal and healthy. Meanwhile, labiaplasties-plastic surgery to alter the labia minora and/or majora-are on the rise, reports the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. “And of course, everyone thinks their labia isn’t as pretty as someone else’s labia.”
“It used to be that nobody could see their labia and they never paid any attention, and now everyone is looking and inspecting,” she says. Unfortunately, as more women are shaving and waxing their pubic hair, they’re also becoming increasingly concerned about whether their labia are normal, explains Lauren Streicher, M.D., an ob-gyn in Chicago and the medical director of the Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The majora typically at least partially envelop the labia minora. The majora are the outer lips (the ones that grow hair) while the minora are the inner lips, which connect to the clitoral hood. In case you're not familiar with the anatomical terms, the inner and outer folds of your vulva are called the labia majora and labia minora. Long or short, plump or thin, dark or pale, wrinkly or smooth-no two labia look exactly the same, says Stephanie Romero, M.D., an ob-gyn at USF Health in Tampa, Florida.
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