Young women are increasingly seeking cosmetic genital surgery to make their vaginas match pornographic images, a new study has found.
Researchers at the Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital, London, found that the number of labial reduction procedures in the National Health Service has increased fivefold in the past 10 years.
This is the first study looking specifically at the labial dimensions of women seeking cosmetic surgery.
The researchers looked at 33 women seeking the operation, whose average age was 23, and found that they all had normal-sized labia minora, with an average width of 26.9 mm (right), and 24.8 mm (left).
Only three had a significant assymetry for which surgery would be appropriate. But 40% of them still keen to pursue the operation, mostly because they wanted to make their labia smaller "to improve appearance."
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[Source: The Times of India]
