Against the popular belief that they are vain or obsessed with pornography, women who have cosmetic surgery on their vagina are not obsessed with the latest beauty trend or having porn-star like genitalia, according to a leading surgeon.
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.
The labia are lips which protect the vagina and birth canal and it consists of the 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.
According to NHS figures for 2010, there has been a five-fold rise since 2001 and one London-based surgeon has seen an 80 per cent rise in labiaplasty procedures between 2013 and 2014.
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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