HEALTH: Reason why women have 'designer v.agina' Surgery

Women who have cosmetic surgery on their vagina are not obsessed with the latest beauty trend or having porn-star like genitalia, a leading surgeon has said.

Instead, they have surgery to reduce the size of their labia – the inner ‘lips’ of the vagina – because they suffer problems ranging from pain and tearing to extreme psychological distress.

Rising numbers of women are opting for surgery to reduce or reshape their labia - the inner 'lips' of the vagina. The labia are lips which protect the vagina. There are inner labia – the labia minora - which are thinner, and the outer labia – the labia majora, which have more tissue and fat.

They naturally vary in size and shape, but some women are dissatisfied or distressed about the appearance of their labia, even when they are classified medically as perfectly normal.

The surgery involves reducing the size of a woman's labia minora to make them more symmetrical and smaller than the labia majora.

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This is done by cutting away the ‘excess’ skin with a scalpel, or possibly a laser, and stitching up the loose edge with dissolvable stitches, until it heals.

Mr Miles Berry, a consultant plastic and aesthetic surgeon at the Weymouth Street Hospital, London, chalks the rise in operations down to an increase in awareness and availability of the procedure.

While many people believe these women are simply seeking a ‘designer vagina’, he says most are having the procedure for functional reasons or because they have been traumatised by having labia that are misshapen or low-hanging.
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