labiaplasty
English
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Noun
labiaplasty (plural labiaplasties)
- (surgery) The moulding or shaping of the labia minora and/or labia majora.
- 2019, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties[1]:
- Many doctors performing labiaplasties were never taught vulvar anatomy—leaving some patients scarred and unable to feel sexual pleasure.
- 2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education[2], Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
- Labiaplasty—surgery for reshaping or resizing the inner labia—is the fastest growing type of plastic surgery in the world: in 2016, 45 per cent more labiaplasty procedures were carried out than in 2015, […]
- 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times[3]:
- When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.
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Translations
moulding of the labia
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