The mons pubis, clitoris, inner labia, outer labia and everything else on the outside?
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Clitoral hood Clitoris Possible cutting Labia minora Cutting Labia majora TYPE I (Clitoridectomy) TYPE II (Excision) TYPE III (Infibulation) TYPE IV Clitoral hood Clitoris Possible cutting Labia minora Cutting Labia majora TYPE I (Clitoridectomy) TYPE II (Excision) TYPE III (Infibulation) TYPE IV By The New York Times | Sources: Abdulcadir et al.
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Both labiaplasty (cosmetic surgery to shorten the labia) and labia lightening procedures (involving laser treatments or bleaching creams) are on the rise.
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The seal is formed by cutting and repositioning the labia minora, or labia majora, sometimes through stitching, with or without removal of the clitoris (clitoridectomy).
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What Monáe's pants actually resemble is the vulva, the external part of your genitals you can see, which includes the labia majora, labia minora, and the clitoris.
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For years, Tracy Kiss experienced pain in her labia, but since she'd never been taught how her labia should feel, she assumed everyone dealt with this discomfort.
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Following the instructions, I squatted pants-less over my toilet and sprayed the lubricant all over my clitoris, inner labia, outer labia and the inside of my vagina.
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Half (215%) of respondents told us they had concerns about the appearance of their vulva, the external part of their genitalia (including the clitoris, labia minora and labia majora).
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There were the uneven labia minora that he's trimmed (click), aging labia majora that he's plumped (click), lax vaginal openings that he's tightened (click), and those were just the surgical options.
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And it actually lies underneath the external ... internal labia.
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Women are so worried about their labia minora (inner lips) protruding beyond their labia majora (outer lips) that they are requesting surgery even though 50 percent of women are built this way.
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The World Health Organization categorizes the procedures themselves into four types: clitoridectomy, which is partial or total removal of the clitoris; excision, which is the removal of the clitoris plus the folds of the labia minora and sometimes the labia majora; infibulation, which is the narrowing of the vaginal opening by cutting and stitching the labia majora.
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One of the four major types of FGM, excision involves the partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora, and sometimes the labia majora, according to the World Health Organization.
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The labia, the bottom of the feet, and the chest.
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What happens if you forget your labia are glued together?
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That's not even a vagina; that's a vulva and labia.
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It's important to note here that vaginas, labia, vulvas, etc.
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The labia is the Ringo Starr of female genitalia: underappreciated.
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And believe me, I've seen thousands and thousands of labia!
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When women send sexy photos, I'm not spreading my labia.
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In men, there's usually only one sore on the penis or scrotum, but in women there can be several that pop up on the labia, between the labia and anus, or on the thighs.
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Like many Sudanese women, this patient underwent the most extreme form called infibulation: Clitoris, labia majora and minora are severed, labia are repositioned and the vagina is sewn mostly closed, requiring surgical opening for childbirth.
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They are more like the Europeans: they want the labia inside.
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A tiny bit of skin on my inner labia, that's what.
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Simply put, inner labia have been deemed inappropriate for mass viewing.
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" Her "saturated labia" are "as silky and smooth as the satin
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The vaginal labia come in a variety of shapes and sizes.
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Tell Me More The labia majora can lose fullness with menopause.
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The study findings suggest that people are not well-educated on what labia that haven't been surgically modified actually look like, or the fact that labia can vary widely in appearance and all be completely normal.
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For some women this may also alter the appearance of their labia.
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This commonly gives the impression that the labia needs to be hidden.
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Jen Gunter: There is a cultural trend in America [favoring] hairless labia.
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Researchers then asked the participants to rank each of the labia on how normal they looked using a five-point scale and found that the majority of people said the post-labiaplasty labia looked more "normal" to them.
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The labia is meant to protect the vaginal opening, which is constructed of highly sensitive nerve endings, from bacteria, and women with larger labia have thought this to be the cause of pain during sex or even yeast infections.
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Her labia pull slickly across his face, and his eyes slip into darkness.
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If this were a PR contest, the labia would be in last place.
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The sulcus, between the clitoris and labia majora, was gone, Dr. Percec said.
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He "began running two fingers up and down my inner labia," she said.
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"You have a bunch of very small warts on your labia," my doctor said.
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People may experience pain in the vagina, labia, or clitoris, according to Harvard Health.
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This includes but is not limited to the length and color of her labia.
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The inner labia, in particular, can range from nearly invisible to bountiful and overflowing.
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Another tool that's sometimes used is one that's essentially a thermometer for the labia.
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When you see that, you realize your labia lips aren't weird; they're just unique.
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Moisturize your labia and vagina with Vitamin E oil to combat dryness and soothe irritation.
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So, she decided to undergo labiaplasty, a surgery to reduce the labia, Teen Vogue reports.
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The skin around your testicles is the same skin that makes up the inner labia.
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How does it feel for them to be in such close proximity to my labia?
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Labiaplasty, a procedure to reduce the size of the inner labia, is growing in popularity.
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As a 32-year-old, he touched my labia and my vulva with his finger.
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The scars that run along either side of my labia are my medals of honor.
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For some girls, surgery may be appropriate, Dr. Gomez-Lobo said, like the teenager who stayed home when she had her period because her labia became so painful and swollen that she was incapacitated, and another girl who quit basketball because of painful, irritated labia.
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In addition to the scar tissue, I also have what could be classified as large labia.
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And, as many pointed out, there is nothing wrong with or unnatural about having dark labia.
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She was going out of a window to smoke a cigarette, tripped, and injured her labia.
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It has legs and bulbs that sit under the labia and reach back into the abdomen.
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Kiss described how hard it's been to live with a long labia in her blog post.
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It's become okay for women to talk about their labia and their vagina with their doctors.
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FGM involves the altering or removing of the female genitals, such as the clitoria or labia.
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That second waxing can leave bruises or burns, or even tear the labia or ball sack.
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If they hadn't fused, that tissue would be your labia; we're all female until we aren't.
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FARROW: As a 32-year-old, he touched my labia and my vulva with his finger.
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Labia filler treatments – also marketed as the "labial puff" and "intimate area fillers" – are available at dozens of private clinics in London (and throughout the UK) and involve injecting hyaluronic acid, or a woman's own fat into the labia majora (the outer folds of the vulva).
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It's only when you get in close that you realize the pièce de résistance is, well, labia.
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" She added, "As a 32-year-old, he touched my labia and my vulva with his finger.
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The only instruction I gave was that I wanted the labia to be as big as possible.
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In fact, there is an enormous amount of natural variation in the color and shape of labia.
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If men shaved their faces the way women shave their labia, men's faces would be chewed up.
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The U.S. statute at issue states that "whoever knowingly circumcises, excises or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person" who is under the age of 18 will face a fine and/or up to five years in prison.
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When the clitoris is erect, it can extend into the labia majora and even surround the vaginal opening.
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For women, it's the mons pubis that bears the brunt, followed by the inner thigh and the labia.
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My inner labia begin to feel compressed by their own engorgement, and slippery as lubrication builds between them.
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This week, two viral Reddit threads highlighted an enduring truth: Nobody actually knows anything about the female labia.
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And as far as aesthetics go, the look of your labia matters less if they're covered in hair.
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An examination found a small incision in her clitoral hood and a small tear to her labia minora.
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Female genital mutilation involves the altering or removing of the female genitals, such as the clitoris or labia.
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One had asymmetry, meaning that the labia was really large on one side and small on the other.
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She says that there are only a few times in life when the appearance of the labia may change: during puberty, weight gain ("if you put on fat, you put on fat everywhere else as well, and that will change the way the vulva and labia appear"), and most crucially, pregnancy.
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"Any woman worried about her labia or who is worried about any changes should seek advice from her GP." In the 24 years that Tozer has worked in gynecology, she says that she has never once seen a labia that might have necessitated immediate surgical intervention (labiaplasty), sex-related or otherwise.
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In people who have vulvas, that extra blood pressure engorges the whole area, including the clitoris and the labia.
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Childbirth affected the elasticity and made my labia lips look a little funny — they lost some of that plumpness.
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"Things are looking fine," he said, snapping off his gloves and speaking to my face instead of my labia.
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The outer genitalia consists of the introitus, which is the opening to the vagina, and the labia and perineum.
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Another side effect: The lifting may help some with stress incontinence, and in some cases may even shorten labia.
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Urine instantly unsticks the labia and allows everything to wash out into the toilet, wipe and reapply Mensez lipstick.
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Recently, she has upped the stakes by adding a thickly painted, labia-shaped ellipse to her repertoire of signs.
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Use your tongue to lick up and down the labia and to get the vaginal opening in on the action.
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Severe scarring fused part of her labia; the skin wouldn't stretch when it came time to deliver her three children.
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Michelle is a 37-year-old woman living in North Carolina who decided to get labia injections for cosmetic reasons.
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"I've treated lots of patients to reduce the size of their labia, but that's purely their personal choice," she says.
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Variations in labia length are totally normal, as any gynecologist or even anyone who watches porn regularly, can tell you.
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The guideline does not rule out surgery on the labia, or labiaplasty for teens, but says it is rarely appropriate.
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Telling your potential labia-loving-lover it's your first time is recommended, but telling them they're your weird experiment isn't.
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The jury heard the girl's labia minora had been almost completely severed and there was a laceration to the clitoris.
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Notice the sensations in the genitalia, the anus, the pelvic floor, the scrotum and penis, or the labia and clitoris.
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You may need to use a hand to slide apart the labia in order to get to the vaginal opening.
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The labia minora, the part of the vulva that is closest to the vaginal opening, does not have pubic hair.
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Later, Dr. Percec began grafting fat into the labia, theorizing it would aid healing and add fullness to depleted tissue.
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I reached out to a number of popular, celebrated porn stars — many of whom direct as well — to find out what kind of labia they tend to see in porn, what directors look for in a performer's vagina, and, of course, whether their own labia meet the labiaplasty standards that supposedly run rampant in porn.
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A few of the most obvious reasons, which she outlines, include abrasions of the labia minora from peeling those sensitive tissues apart and gluing 'em back together several times a day, which could cause the labia minora growing together and needing surgical separation; the fact that not everyone has labia long enough to make it stick in the first place; serious pain if you sit sideways on your glued-up genitalia; and the simple fact that a complete blood seal which dissolves under contact with urine is highly unlikely.
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This is despite the fact that it's perfectly natural for the labia to be darker than the rest of the body.
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The book-crease-as-labia becomes part of a visual language system replete with contradictory metaphors, condensations, displacements, multiplications, and jokes.
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As regards the advertising of these procedures, the Advertising Standards Authority had this to say about the promotion of labia fillers.
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Given the aforementioned lack of peer-reviewed medical research on the safety and efficacy of labia fillers, this requirement is important.
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"The extra risk is because of the vast amount of nerves and blood vessels around the clitoris, labia and urethral opening."
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"I hope that in sharing my experience, other women can see that there is a cure for painful labia," she said.
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Internally, I wanted to feel tighter; externally, I wanted the appearance of the labia minora — the extra skin — to be reduced.
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It can vary from the shaving of the clitoris to the removal of the labia and the sewing of the vagina.
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I won't know until I see how your tissue responds, but we will definitely be using your labia for the balls.
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Providing proven information about the risks and benefits of fillers for the labia majora is not possible without the necessary studies.
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Our pros report that the most common are vertical and horizontal piercings on the clitoris, plus both the inner and outer labia.
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If you want to work on it at home, too, Powell recommends paying more attention to your external genitalia, like your labia.
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And with that expertise, I can say with great certainty there's no one specific style of labia that's heavily featured in porn.
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Yes, Dopps has a fresh patent for Mensez, a "feminine lipstick" intended to stop menstrual blood by sealing together the labia minora.
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The fix isn't more porn, isn't more objectification, isn't a flash of labia to cue the brain to bring on the tingles.
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There's the VCH and HCH — vertical clitoral hood or horizontal clitoral hood — as well as the Christina and inner and outer labia.
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Adolescent girls who are involved in certain sports may experience discomfort, such as chafing or itching in the labia, Dr. Strickland said.
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The "pseudopenis" of female hyenas is actually just a huge clitoris with a ballsack-looking-thing made out of fused-together labia.
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The vagina, the cervix, the anterior vaginal wall [aka the G-spot], the clitoris, the labia, the hymen—these are sexual things.
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They are requesting labial reduction even though the labia minora is a sexually responsive body part that plays a role in orgasms.
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According to court documents, when the girl arrived, her labia minora, the flaps on either side of the vaginal opening, was removed.
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There are also skin conditions that can significantly alter the appearance of the labia, the most common of which is lichen sclerosus.
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Additionally, your labia will get wet — that's because when the blood rushes to your genitals, your vulva starts to "sweat," producing extra moisture.
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And there might also be itching and burning of the labia, which may make you think you have a yeast infection, she says.
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After nearly slicing off half my labia with my dad's safety razor in the shower, I decided it was time to seek help.
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The more commonly practiced infibulation involved excising the clitoris, labia minora and majora, followed by stitching to close up most of the vagina.
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There's been a misguided focus on the labia because I think people are far more aware of it once they've had a wax.
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His fingers pressed into my hips, into that sensitive spot between thigh and labia, and the noise I made was only barely human.
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While it can be sexy to lick their labia and kiss their inner thighs, orgasms from oral sex typically happen from clitoral stimulation.
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Also in the 1960s, researchers began developing new tools to objectively measure erections of the penis and arousal in the vagina and labia.
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Is it dangerous to have a dermatologist inject fillers to improve the appearance of labia majora that are thinning during or after menopause?
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Kors reads a poem that includes the line "he reads her labia like the sacred script that it is," and the crowd cheers.
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Read more:The &aposhuman Ken doll&apos has spent more than $750,000 on 72 cosmetic surgeries, and doctors warn that his addiction has gotten dangerousAlicia Keys says the secret to her glowing skin includes an acne-busting chemical that &apossmells like a fart&aposPeople think surgically altered labia look more &aposnormal,&apos but there&aposs no such thing as normal-looking labia
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I applied the lube liberally to my clitoris, inner and outer labia, and inside my vagina, as instructed, and turned on my favorite device.
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Much like jizz leaking out of a vagina, or farts traveling through the labia, or most vagina smells, this "problem" isn't really a problem.
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The black cat was a demon witch's familiar that would be sucking on extra teats on the witch's labia—that was fascinating to learn.
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Almost two thirds of us undergo infibulation - the most extreme form, which leaves girls with their labia stitched together following excision of the clitoris.
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While differences in labia appearance are easily described and imagined, they're much harder to come across in mainstream media — particularly in soft-porn magazines.
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Between 2010 and 2016, the United States saw a more than 100% increase in labiaplasties, a surgery to trim the inner or outer labia.
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Still, wouldn't it be better to explain to these women that, for example, it's totally normal for their labia to be a bit longer?
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He doesn't miss a beat to strike a pose, explaining how liposuction works, before breaking down his other specialities—breast enlargements and labia reductions.
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Not sure what makes me more ragey: the censorship of abortion or someone not knowing the difference between a fallopian tube and a labia.
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The more fearsome-sounding V-Plump, Ms. Barshop said, injects fillers and your own blood plasma into the labia majora to smooth and plump.
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The safest way to explore fillers in the labia majora would be as part of a clinical trial overseen by an institutional review board.
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The skin around the labia is quite sensitive, and anecdotally I have seen quite a few cases of irritation triggered by laser hair removal.
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The most severe type of female genital mutilation—infibulation, also known as Type III FGM—involves the total removal of the clitoris and the labia.
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For the first time, the new report included data on labiaplasty, a cosmetic surgery that alters the appearance of a woman's genitalia, specifically her labia.
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Her doctor told her that because she had very long labia, they'd caused both the cysts and would likely cause more cysts in the future.
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Those glands are only responsible for lubricating the vagina, so why do your vulva lips (aka, your outer and inner labia) feels so moist, too?
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An exam found the girl's labia minora removed or altered, her clitoral hood looking abnormal, plus scar tissue and small healing cuts, court records show.
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Some of us try hard not to stare at her exposed labia, but I get the strong sense that she really doesn't care either way.
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One side of each toy has a little pink snout, while the other side is...well, it looks a lot like a little pink labia.
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It's narrow between your legs so you can move around without it getting in the way and so that it can nestle between your labia.
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If the "Yandy aesthetic" speaks to you, and you're OK with encasing your labia in hastily assembled velour, then you know where to find this.
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"A hospital employee told me his girlfriend wanted one because she was so miserable with the pain and discomfort her labia gave her," says Heather.
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When I think about going into a salon, taking off my underwear, spreading my legs, and letting someone rip hairs off my labia — under fluorescent lights!
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Throughout the procedure, Smith's surgeon explains the entire process calmly and adeptly, chronicling how the penile tissue is repurposed to form the labia, vagina, and clitoris.
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She said she had felt self-conscious about the appearance of her labia as a single woman and was relieved to get married four years ago.
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Dr. Runels is also behind the O-Shot, an injection of PRP into the vagina that is meant to rejuvenate the labia, G spot, and clitoris.
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My dad told her that he was especially turned on by pregnant women because, according to him, their outer labia became fatter and wetter during pregnancy.
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He claims that it seals one's labia minora shut, trapping all of that icky lady business inside, and dissolves when it comes in contact with urine.
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What about the pink diamond in the middle row, with its bright red labia outlined in white, sitting right above the shaped rectangle's drippy, bottom edge?
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The extreme close-up is the most common type of shot on Fab Swingers, with hairless labia and flabby penises dissecting screens like blunt pocket knives.
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The girls could go nude after midnight, but if any labia was ever seen we'd face a fine into the thousands, and jobs would be lost.
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Their labia "are folded over and filled with fat and connective tissue to form a structure that looks remarkably like the male's scrotal sac," Holekamp wrote.
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Additionally, touching, licking, and using genital-safe items on the labia, clitoris, and around the vaginal opening can also be pleasurable and would not require vaginal penetration.
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" She says that's how she described it as a child, but today, as a 32-year-old woman, she says "he touched my labia and my vulva.
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Not only does the process promise to improve the outward appearance of the vagina, making the labia look plumper and firmer, but it also improves sexual satisfaction.
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People most commonly go under the knife to mend post-menopausal or post-childbirth changes that can make looser inner labia uncomfortable in clothing or during sex.
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In my imaginary version of what sex would be like, I never fantasized about getting fingered so dryly that my right labia puffed up like a balloon.
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In addition, the skin of the labia majora and minora becomes thinner because of a combination of menopause-related changes and effects of normal aging on skin.
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But unlike the labia or the clitoris, there's a lot about this hollow reproductive organ that you might not know about simply because it's located inside the body.
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"It takes a woman's body at least 20 minutes to become fully aroused, which includes engorgement of erectile tissue in the labia, clitoris, and vaginal canal," Chavez says.
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Rather than being a small bundle of nerves and tissue atop the labia minora, the clitoris is actually a swan boat-shaped network of nerves and erectile tissue.
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Almost two thirds of Somali women undergo infibulation, the most extreme form of FGM, which leaves girls with their labia stitched together following the excision of the clitoris.
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But just in case it does eventually make it to stores, please remember that gluing your labia together is not going to result in a mess-free period.
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Well, that and ensuring that no one future woman ever has to awkwardly squat over a hand mirror with a flashlight just to get a peek at her labia.
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The pat-down began and was uneventful until she went down my leg, up my dress, and her hand sideways hits me right in the crack of my labia.
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The most visible part of this intriguing organ is the small bundle of extra-sensitive nerve endings that sits right underneath where the two inner labia meet up top.
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Next up, Cecily Strong played Lauren C., a woman from Labia, Alabama (a direct reference to Tia B. on Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s season, who is from Weiner, Arkansas).
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It has become so normal for me to say, "Tuck your labia back in, babe" or reach over and pull a G-string back over a bending girl's asshole.
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My labia really deserves to be seen by dozens if not hundreds of people every day, forever, in a jar on a fancy shelf with a little description underneath.
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I could have gotten fingered for years if I would've known that there was a girl out there on TV who said it's okay to have a long labia.
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The work is now part of what Enoch calls the Femme Tenta trilogy, which includes her newer erotic (and NSFW) works Space Labia and The Rise of The Pelvic Floor.
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As my labia are so large, they protrude from my body and constantly rub and irritate against clothing, exercise, and everyday activities of which I am never free from discomfort.
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Read more:Most people have fantasized about being in a polyamorous relationshipPeople think surgically altered labia look more 'normal' than natural labia6 celebrities who have opened up about their polyamorous relationships
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The narrative that women are drawn to labiaplasty after porn convinces them their perfectly normal labia are ugly is a chilling one, and the alarm it has caused is understandable.
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And so, a bikini-wax appointment was made at the most luxurious spot I could imagine to get hot wax near my labia: the Caudalíe Vinotherapie Spa at the Plaza Hotel.
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Same with Christina piercings — also known as a venus piercing, located on the surface pubic area where the outer labia meet, right above the clitoral hood — which are really popular lately.
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A combination of normalising oral sex, for everyone, and moving beyond myths of "perfect-looking labia" boosted by porn and sniggering sex-ed classes would be a good place to start.
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I once remember flicking over onto a harshly lit close-up shot of a woman's labia right as a guy shoved his dick into her and pressed down on her neck.
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"The labia also has erectile tissue, and can become larger and more red in color as the arousal triggers a release of blood flow through the entire genital area," she says.
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This comes down to the fact that so many people don't understand how large the clitoris is and how much of it is under the labia and wrapped around the urethra.
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The practice varies by culture and can include narrowing the vaginal opening and sewing it virtually closed, removing the clitoris or labia, or cutting, piercing, burning or scraping the clitoral hood.
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Inside the baroque interior of Palazzo Labia, against a backdrop of frescoes by the 18th-century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, De Castellane staged a series of 11 extravagant dining scenes.
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Women of color generally have naturally darker labia than white women, who make up the majority of popular porn performers and thus the majority of vulvas that we see in media.
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Her fingers holding the mirror's bottom edge are red with trapped blood, making them the same color as her nipple and vaguely suggesting labia protruding from the center of her thigh.
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In having part of her labia amputated, Juliette joined a growing number of women who have had cosmetic surgery on their genitals; either labiaplasties, procedures designed to alter the size or shape of the inner labia, or vaginoplasties (sometimes referred to as "vaginal rejuvenations," not to be confused with the catch-all term for genital cosmetic surgery, "female rejuvenation,") which are operations aimed at strengthening and tightening the vagina area—a vaginal "face-lift," if you like.
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One woman cited "the rise of the vaginoplasty, and women trimming their labia minora" as the source of her insecurity, while another mentioned the prevalence of "advertising for surgical changes for vaginas".
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To settle the debate once and for all, I spoke to a few professionals to see if the labia can indeed turn many colors, not unlike Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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While the video doesn't discuss this issue at length, the language used (most frequently by men) to describe women's labia only enforces the idea that one type is more preferable than another.
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The hand then removes the tip of the penis (which will be used to create a clitoris); the shaft and the scrotum are then used to create the labia and vaginal canal.
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For most confusing emoji, I'm going with the potted house plant, the labia-and-clitoral design of which indicates to me that 2020 will see pubic hair trending back toward full bush.
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I skimmed the instructions (this is, after all, a battery-operated device that goes near your labia), which were easy enough: Turn on, trim with the 5mm comb, shave with the metal blade.
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Related Video: Read these stories next: I Got Labia Fillers — & My Sex Life Has Never Been Better Everything You Need To Know About The "Designer Nipple" Trend Plastic-Surgery Haters: Who Asked You?
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While penis shafts are fun to decorate with whipped cream, if you or your partner has a vagina, be careful about getting the dessert inside the labia, as sugar can cause yeast infections.
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" In all three cases, the girls did have what Dr. Tozer refers to as "unusually large labia, to the point that they were really obsessed by it and it was affecting them psychologically.
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RealDoll has also started manufacturing breast and labia prostheses for members of the trans community, women who have undergone a mastectomy, or anyone else who wants to experience what having female genitalia is like.
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The vulva is made up of all of the parts you can see if you hold a mirror between your legs, including: the clitoris, anus, inner and outer labia, urethral opening, and vaginal opening.
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It was fun to try, but a spray is easier applied on the labia lips and vagina than the butthole (which is much smaller), so I wasn't sure how much I got up there.
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When people were shown pictures of labia, half of which had been made smaller and more symmetrical through a voluntary procedure called a labiaplasty, most said they viewed the labiaplasty images as more normal.
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Still, the results aren't necessarily surprising since previous research suggests it's human nature to desire physical symmetry in a potential partner's face, so the same evolutionary trend could be true for labia, Skoda said.
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More and more patients are asking if they are "normal"; women are wondering if their vaginas are "too loose" and their labia minora (inner lips) are too large for a man to find attractive.
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She regularly performs plastic surgery for medical or cosmetic reasons, including labiaplasty to reshape the inner labia, but until Ms. Sillah contacted her, she had never tried clitoral reconstruction on women who were cut.
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Use A Sex Toy There are several hands-free vibrators on the market, such as Dame's Eva II, which stays in place on your clit thanks to two "arms" that go under your labia.
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Now that we all know, we can begin mentally preparing for the next baby shower we attend just in case a slice of an iced, bloody, pube-covered labia cake is passed our way.
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He and his colleagues perform surgeries with names like "The Barbie Look" or "The Beverly Hills Rejuvenation"—operations that trim the inner labia, tighten the vagina or reduce the fold of skin covering the clitoris.
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The labia are drawn as if they're symmetrical, when they're typically not, and the vagina looks like a gaping hole waiting for something to be inserted, while in reality, the vaginal walls are usually touching.
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And while, say, painful sex or prolapse are "real" medical issues, constant irritation caused by your long labia or even a change in sensation after childbirth are not, according to traditional medicine, Dr. Pelosi explains.
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The penis, clitoris, labia, and vagina all have erectile tissue that engorges when testosterone is high, which is usually during the REM stage of sleep (this spike in blood flow can also increase vaginal lubrication).
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"I reconstructed a Somali woman who had been the victim of female genital mutilation—specifically infundibulation, in which her labia minora and clitoris were completely removed and the genitalia sutured closed," says Dr. Heather Furnas.
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It all culminated with a purple-lit queer fantasia — a nod to her album Dirty Computer — which included labia-shaped pants, Monae yelling out "Let the vagina have a monologue!" and everyone dancing their hearts out.
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Professor Janice Rymer, consultant gynaecologist and vice president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), told Refinery29 the association was "very concerned by reports of genital cosmetic procedures," including labia fillers and vaginal rejuvenation.
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But it also happens here in the U.S. As part of the gruesome tradition, some or most of the female genitals are removed — including the labia and clitoris — and the vagina may be partially sewn up.
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European guests familiar with, say, the heady opulence of Carlos de Beistegui's 1951 masked ball held at the Palazzo Labia in Venice, were heard to snipe about Capote's modest supper menu and candles-and-balloons décor.
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Some experts blame this insecurity and the rise of genital cosmetic surgery on porn, which they say promotes an ideal of a small, pink, "tucked-in" labia (that's the inner and outer "lips" of the vagina).
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If the latter person is you, and a well-moisturized vulva is what you desire, then you're in luck: There's now a convenient product designed to keep your labia and vulvar skin hydrated while on the go.
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That includes the labia, the vulva, the clitoris, and the perineum — don't worry, we won't judge if you need a quick refresher course on Female Anatomy 101 to figure out where this stuff is supposed to go.
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It's much easier to describe how to touch my clit or my labia to someone who I have also built up the trust with to say how much pain I want them to inflict on my thighs!
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It's the "hood" or "prepuce," which is a flap of skin that connects to the labia minora (the inner lips of the vulva), explains Rachel Rubin, MD, a urologist in Washington, D.C., who focuses on sexual medicine.
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But gynecologists who care for teenage girls say they receive requests every week from patients who want surgery to trim their labia minora, mostly for cosmetic reasons, but occasionally for functional reasons, such as to relieve discomfort.
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To evaluate the effects of high testosterone, the international athletic association's protocol involves measuring and palpating the clitoris, vagina and labia, as well as evaluating breast size and pubic hair scored on an illustrated five-grade scale.
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A chiropractor in Kansas has invented a lipstick-like glue that will seal your labia shut during your period, holding all of the blood in until you go to the bathroom, according to a viral Facebook post.
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The museum quotes a YouGov survey which discovered that 52% of the British public couldn't describe or visually identify the vagina, the labia (47%), or the urethra (58%), so the Vagina Museum is fulfilling a crucial function.
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For one, Jen Gunter, a San Francisco OB/GYN, points out that reapplying some kind of glue to the labia over and over again could cause abrasions, even potentially causing it to grow together and require surgical separation.
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But Ebola did something women's rights activists in the country have not been able to achieve through decades of campaigning — it ended female genital mutilation (FGM), a procedure involving partial or total removal of the clitoris and labia.
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"I think in years gone by, when things like Hollywood [waxes] weren't in fashion, people didn't notice their labia so much because a lot of hair grows there," says Amanda Tozer, a consultant gynecologist at the London Clinic.
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Those classic diagrams of a woman's reproductive system, the ones shaped like the head of a steer, blur into a gray Y between the legs, as if the vulva and the labia, let alone the clitoris, don't exist.
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Also known as infibulation and female circumcision, FGM involves the ritual removal of parts of a female's genitalia, such as the clitoris or the labia, and then sewing shut or otherwise narrowing the vagina's opening for no medical benefit.
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Read these stories next: I Got Labia Fillers — & My Sex Life Has Never Been Better Why I Tattooed My Eyebrows — & What It Was Really Like The Real Reason This Woman Put On A Face Of Makeup While In Labor
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First, she doesn't get waxed on her labia majora (the lips of the outer genitals) or near her anus, since removing hair from those areas could lead to irritation and inflammation as they are made of very delicate skin.
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A simple bullet vibe or the Iroha Mini by Tenga will get you off without maybe your labia accidentally calling your Aunt Karen (you'll need to be on T-Mobile as it's the only 2G network still working in the US).
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Despite the law, many women are undergoing the cut in rural Kenya where cultural and traditional beliefs persist that FGM — the partial removal of the external female genitalia such as the clitoris or labia — reduces a woman's desire for sex.
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Because of its location against the top wall of the vagina, around the urethra, and along the labia, stimulation and pressure on any of these adjacent areas during sex necessarily applies pressure, friction, vibration, and so on, to the clitoris.
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In light of this, it's no surprise that so many women are worried about whether their genitals look "normal," a concern that is feeding demand for genital cosmetic surgeries, such as procedures designed to reduce the size of women's labia.
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Dame's focus is clearly on female pleasure, not male amusement; as a result, Eva is wearable vibrator that nestles in between the labia, offering women the added stimulation necessary to achieve orgasm without interfering with the other pleasurable aspects of sex.
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Nataliya Chernakova, a Venice-based Russian artist who spent six months in Pietrasanta last year to learn the art of marble-carving alongside the artisans here, showed off lemon-shaped totems named "Her," each tipped with a nipple and labia.
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Cindy Barshop is a former "Real Housewife of New York" and the proprietor of New York City's V-Spot Medi Spa, which provides a laundry list of services such as vaginal steaming, labia plumping, and a 22-karat gold wax.
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While there was a table filled with bright green penis attachments for the people who want their sex dolls to look like aliens — why not, buy your doll with 10 tits, I'm not your fucking mother — I could not find one brown labia.
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But because apparently there are no limits as to how far — and past how many folds — some of us will go to find the elusive ~perfect lipstick~, we find ourselves here, at the labia minora, after getting mixed results with our nipples.
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Plastic surgeons in Latin America's top economy, known for pioneering the Brazilian Butt Lift that transfers fat from other areas of the body to the buttocks, have seen a massive spike in demand for labiaplasty, a surgery that slims or plumps the labia.
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If you want to add your hands back in, try this: While your face is shoved between your partner's thighs, go back to DJ-ing their clit with one hand, and use your tongue to part their inner labia to prepare for penetration.
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In a statement, ACOG explicitly expressed concern about increased teen interest in the procedure, cautioning its members against surgically altering young patients' labia in most cases and noting that many adolescent labiaplasties could be in violation of laws against female genital mutilation (FGM).
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One woman described her labia as "larger" than she has seen depicted by the industry, another said hers "doesn't look like what [she sees] in porn," while another summed up the problem perfectly: porn, she said, depicts "vaginas that all look basically the same".
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Sometimes women have to hold their labia extra tight so they don't get pulled too hard, and then some people really don't have any, so there's not much of a circumference to get in and wax, which causes us to get inventive with positioning.
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On Reddit, numerous users attempted to dispel this myth with convoluted arguments about porn ("pornstars get railed more often than most people on Earth, but many of them have small labia") or dubious racial stereotyping ("by that logic, dark skinned people have the most sex").
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Learning anatomy on the page or the screen rather than in-the-moment takes the pressure off your partner to speak for all queer people with vaginas and will give you a leg (or labia) up when you get down to licking, sucking and fucking.
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The study participants didn't know they were looking at before-and-after picturesTo come to their findings, the researchers asked 4,513 participants, 56% who were men, 41% who were women, and 3% who were gender non-conforming, to look at 16 photos of labia.
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The first time I ever used it to shave my vagina (yes, I know the technical term for the outer genitalia is 'vulva,' but that doesn't have the same ring to it), I nearly sliced off half my labia — and screamed bloody murder the moment it happened.
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And when I say "show," I mean that literally; in addition to performing the entire workshop naked, each participant also performs a genital "show and tell," holding their labia open and talking about their relationship with their body, their orgasm, and their feelings about their vulva.
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Applying a fine dusting of baby powder to the outer labia, post-shower or bath, is one of those long-practiced feminine hygiene hacks that you may have learned from your mother, who likely learned it from hers, and so on, back through the matrilineal generations.
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This new research, presented Friday at The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality annual conference, suggests people don't know that there really is no "normal"-looking labia, since the size, shape, and symmetry of the body part varies widely, study co-author Kaylee Skoda said.
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Ask if your partner likes being fingered while someone goes down on them, if they like their clit sucked or blown on, if they like it when someone lightly nibbles their labia, if they like it slow or fast, and any other questions you can think to ask.
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These essays almost exclusively went in the 'rejected' pile, as it is the absolute worst to have an interview with a young applicant when you have read her essay deeply detailing the shape of her labia and the face she makes when she orgasms for the first time.
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Read on for my chat with Glaser and learn about why she has chosen sex positivity as her cause (it has to do with the length of her labia); then, catch the finale of this season's Not Safe this Tuesday — and Glaser's first hour-long special, "Perfect," this Saturday.
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Even if porn isn't a motivating factor, it is clear that many people, and young women in particular, have a skewed idea of what labia are "supposed" to look like, according to Dr. Cheryl Iglesia, Director of Urogynecology for Medstar Health and a professor of gynecology at Georgetown University.
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An intersex person can be born with genitals that seem in-between (like a noticeably large clitoris, missing vaginal opening, a very small penis, or a scrotum that's divided like labia), or appear to be female on the outside with mostly male anatomy and vice-versa, according to the ISNA website.
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"If you come from a privileged background, are educated, only then can you say that the only issue is around sexuality and same-sex love — the battle takes primacy for you only because the other battles have been won," said Chayanika Shah founder of LABIA (Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action).
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Still, despite the unforgiving angle, Peggy always paused to appreciate the inert drapery of her labia, and in a way her vagina seemed to gaze through those drapes, giving Peggy the vague feeling that her vagina was deeply appreciative that no entire human being had ever passed through its mouth.
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One of the sex workers whose Instagram handle was listed in Felton's letter as unfairly banned, who goes by Samantha Squirt, told me in a Twitter message that her Instagram account, which was set to private, was removed despite her never posting nipples, labia, or anything that could be considered R-rated.
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Dr. Furnas, who likens labiaplasty to the significantly less controversial breast reduction, explains that while some people have aesthetic concerns, many of her patients are more focused on being able to ride a bike without pain, or get through a day without having to carefully position their labia lest they experience excruciating chafing.
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But while Fine and Lieberman's experiences as women and vulva owners helped them come up with an innovative solution to the problem of pleasure—let's be real, it's way less likely that a male designer would ever have thought to use the labia as a sex toy pocket—those same experiences created roadblocks as well.
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"Body parts," for example, branches into upper and lower body (ass, genitalia, asshole, hips, gap, feet, and legs), and from there breaks down into more specifics (under genitalia: penis, small or large; vulva, hair or labia), head (and hair colors), breasts (large, small and implants, but also from-and-angle like r/SideBoob and r/Underboob), and so on.
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Unfortunately, even delicately touching the fidget spinner, whether with your fingers or your labia, stops the spinning, so the moment the arms of the spinner touched me, the theoretically pleasurable quality of it disappeared, and I was just holding a piece of plastic by my vagina, wondering why I'd bothered taking AP classes in high school.
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The truth is that gynecologists have always done vaginoplasties and labiaplasties, but historically they would only do them for women with "true" medical problems, such as uterine prolapse (when the pelvic muscles collapse completely and the uterus descends into the vagina) or labial hypertrophy, which is when the labia minora or majora are extremely long or uneven.
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"I refuse and reject this bullshit on behalf of those who feel they can't speak," McGowan wrote: I am someone who was forced by a studio to go on Howard Stern, where he asked me to show him my labia while my grinning male and female publicists stood to the side and did nothing to protect me.
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If one person watches the show and hears me say I thought my vagina was gross because I had labia that were longer than I thought they should be, but then I found out they weren't...if I would've heard that, that would've saved me years of anguish and hating myself and not wanting to get fingered.
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She is willing to describe in some detail the way her labia looked to her when she was nine months pregnant (let's just say, unfamiliar), but there is barely a line in the entire book about songwriting or playing the guitar, the talents for which she became famous and which, in fact, have been her life's work and support.
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I think about my vagina a lot — the taste, the hair (or lackthereof), the occasional random bump, the size of my labia, the subtle scars from years of skin-picking — and dare I say, I've never felt better about the state of it than I do currently, armed with my Nordic-chic wipes, brightening serum, and Lo Bosworth-approved natural wash.
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One part of our bodies – namely our vaginas (interior) and vulvas (exterior) – are a hot topic right now, being the subject of documentaries like Channel 4's recent 226 Vaginas, books such as Lynn Enright's Vagina: A Re-Education (published this month) and some landmark studies confirming that there is no such thing as "normal" labia, they come in all shapes, sizes and colours.
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As for why there has been an increase in demand for the surgery among teenagers, physicians are "sort of baffled," said Dr. Julie Strickland, the chairwoman of A.C.O.G.'s committee on adolescent health care For adults, the procedure is marketed as "vaginal rejuvenation," tightening the inner and outer muscles of the vagina, as well as often shaping the labia; it is geared to older women and women who have given birth.
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There are many levels of wrong happening in the original tweet: the medically false implication that frequent sexual activity permanently stretches your genitals, the use of "vagina" to refer to vulva and labia, the insinuation that some women's body parts are superior to others' or that body parts indicate worth at all, and, oh right, the assumption that we can convey moral lessons by comparing women and/or women's anatomy to inanimate objects.
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Once you know how to use each word properly, hearing them used interchangeably will sound like nails on a chalkboard and you'll be compelled to say something like: The vagina is the muscular and tubular part of the female genital tract while the vulva refers to the external female sex organs which include the mons pubis (the mound of fatty tissue that sits on the pubic bone), the labia minora and majora (the inner and outer lips), the urinary meatus, and so on.
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