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labia +‎ -plasty

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labiaplasty (plural labiaplasties)

  1. (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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