labiaplasty

plural labiaplasties

1. medicineThe moulding or shaping of the labia minora and/or labia majora.

   Many doctors performing labiaplasties were never taught vulvar anatomy—leaving some patients scarred and unable to feel sexual pleasure.

   2019, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties

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   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, […]

   2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education, Atlantic Books, →ISBN

   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.

   2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times