04-07-2014, 20:03
I hope it went as well as possible for you, bmthx, and that it helps you in the way you'd hoped. 
But I take serious issue with anyone calling long labia minora abnormal or a deformity (!!) It's so normal that it's practically mundane (as if a vulva could ever be so). Plenty of people here will have labia minora that protrude beyond the labia majora. That kind of negative language can be so damaging, and I didn't think this was that type of place.
Whether someone thinks it is normal or not doesn't negate the fact that it is. Shorter, hidden inner labia aren't more normal. People have different sized breasts, penises, foreskins, clitorises and, yep, labia. It is what it is, a regular human body.
Medical diagrams, sex ed classes, soft porn and parents have a lot to answer for. Did you know that in Australia their censorship laws require them to airbrush any woman's vulva to a single line? Talk about f-ing up young people's perceptions of normality!! Apparently showing detail of the vulva is considered too explicit. Yes, ladies, your visible inner labia are just too damn sexual
If kids could just see what normal adult genitals and bodies (of both men and women) can look like in all their splendid variations I think a lot if this "am I normal?" anxiety and deep insecurity could be avoided.
Jamie McCartney, an English artist, made plaster casts of 400 women's vulvas, aged from 18-76. You can see these casts here http://www.greatwallofvagina.co.uk/great...ina-panels. Normal vulvas. Vulvas of mothers, daughters, grandmothers, transgender men and women, pregnant women, and one woman who had undergone labiaplasty. Very clearly we women have a massive range of diversity between our legs.
Anyway, everyone has autonomy over their own body and they are free to do with it what they wish, be it breast implants, penis enlargement, nose jobs, labiaplasty etc. If it makes someone happy, who am I to say any different. But large labia abnormal? Oh, hell no.
I truly wish you all the best, bmthx, and hope you are happy with the new you and your new start. You were perfect, normal and healthy before, but I hope you yourself will feel it now
Sending lots of wishes for a safe and speedy recovery xx
But I take serious issue with anyone calling long labia minora abnormal or a deformity (!!) It's so normal that it's practically mundane (as if a vulva could ever be so). Plenty of people here will have labia minora that protrude beyond the labia majora. That kind of negative language can be so damaging, and I didn't think this was that type of place.
Whether someone thinks it is normal or not doesn't negate the fact that it is. Shorter, hidden inner labia aren't more normal. People have different sized breasts, penises, foreskins, clitorises and, yep, labia. It is what it is, a regular human body.
Medical diagrams, sex ed classes, soft porn and parents have a lot to answer for. Did you know that in Australia their censorship laws require them to airbrush any woman's vulva to a single line? Talk about f-ing up young people's perceptions of normality!! Apparently showing detail of the vulva is considered too explicit. Yes, ladies, your visible inner labia are just too damn sexual
If kids could just see what normal adult genitals and bodies (of both men and women) can look like in all their splendid variations I think a lot if this "am I normal?" anxiety and deep insecurity could be avoided.Jamie McCartney, an English artist, made plaster casts of 400 women's vulvas, aged from 18-76. You can see these casts here http://www.greatwallofvagina.co.uk/great...ina-panels. Normal vulvas. Vulvas of mothers, daughters, grandmothers, transgender men and women, pregnant women, and one woman who had undergone labiaplasty. Very clearly we women have a massive range of diversity between our legs.
Anyway, everyone has autonomy over their own body and they are free to do with it what they wish, be it breast implants, penis enlargement, nose jobs, labiaplasty etc. If it makes someone happy, who am I to say any different. But large labia abnormal? Oh, hell no.
I truly wish you all the best, bmthx, and hope you are happy with the new you and your new start. You were perfect, normal and healthy before, but I hope you yourself will feel it now
Sending lots of wishes for a safe and speedy recovery xx