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Q: Labia Surgery
asked by: Birch on July 11th, 2007
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I was reading an article in a health magazine yesterday that was about women getting corrective surgery on their genitalia.

There were two sides on the platter: 1. They opted for surgery to tighten their vaginas after childbirth for either enhanced sexual pleasure or for incontinence reasons and 2. They didnt' like the way their labia looked.

My reactions were, in order of appearance;

"Ouch!" (crossed legs instinctively).

"Man, that lady's husband told her while they were having sex that, 'honey, it's like a train tunnel down here'. That would be awful!"

"Has a man ever in the history of the world turned down sex because of a way a woman's labia looked?"

"Freakin' porn...now women are having corrective surgery because they think they don't have the 'ideal looking' babychute."

And then...the insecurity. I am female, afterall.

I wonder if my... yeah, I'm sure it's alright. "Honnnneee?" I yell down the stairs... and ask the question.
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Anne123
replied on July 11th, 2007
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That post made me laugh a little. Smile

Women need to know there is just as much variation in female genitalia as there is in male genitalia.... and males do vary quite a lot!

I think that is the LAST place I would consider getting cosmetic surgery.

ouch! Shocked
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Birch
replied on July 11th, 2007
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Yeah, I can understand the medical reasons... but the cosmetic ones? Yeeowzers. But then again, the mere mention of "nipple" and "pierce" in the same sentence sends me cartwheeling towards the freezer where I stick my head into it to chill the thought right out of my brain.

I asked my boyfriend if my "labia looked alright to him". He rolled his eyes, and distractedly said, "Love, your labia looks fine" and went back to work.

What a great conversation. Laughing
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Tylanas
replied on July 12th, 2007
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I'd never felt weird about my labia for some reason... I have a huge birth mark down there which is pretty much a 3-4 inch diameter freckle sort of coming out from down there on the inside of one thigh, so I guess... I was more concerned about that than my labia, which every woman has, so I figured my were as good as anyone else's lol. Not every woman has a freckle that looks like a pool of poop!
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Birch
replied on July 12th, 2007
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Eiri wrote:
Not every woman has a freckle that looks like a pool of poop!


Ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ACEASPADE
replied on February 2nd, 2009
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First off this thread is funny in some places!!
second i dont know of any men who turn sex down due to the way the labia looked, but they do think about it, because it is said to mean " she had a lot of partners or a lot of sex" and from a guys perspective that is not good (which is argueable for men too) but really it is just how some women are made some have a large labia, small labia, small clitouris or big one every women is very diffrent.
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