Labia surgeries may be driven by unnatural images

By Shereen Jegtvig New York (Reuters Health) - Women who were initially exposed to images of surgically modified female genitalia were more likely to consider them 'normal' and 'ideal' when later comparing them to unaltered genitalia, Australian researchers report. Labiaplasty is an increasingly popular cosmetic surgery to reduce the size of a woman's labia minora and make them more symmetrical so they don't protrude beyond the labia majora. The number of labiaplasties performed by the UK National Health Service has risen five-fold since 2001, according to the new study's authors. "I think that the rise in genital cosmetic surgery for women is a very worrying trend.



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