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Teenage Girls Increasingly Requesting Labiaplasty to Get the Perfect Designer Vagina
Very young women are going under the knife to sculpt parts that are still growing and changing.

Holloway, Kari
http://www.alternet.org/gender/teenage-girls-increasingly-requesting-labiaplasty-get-perfect-designer-vagina

Publisher:  Alternet
Date Written:  27/04/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

Never underestimate the power of beauty myths to manufacture inadequacies where before there were none. A little over a decade ago, labiaplasty -- the partial or wholesale removal of parts of the labia minora, aka the inner vaginal lips -- was a relatively obscure plastic surgery, compared with nips, tucks and lifts to various other parts. In more recent years, the number of women opting for the surgery has grown exponentially. Now very young women -- girls still in their teens -- are requesting the procedure in numbers growing so quickly that even some practitioners are concerned.

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