Intra-vaginal drying and tightening and labia minora elongation are commonly practised in some parts of southern Africa. We sought to capture data on these practices among women living in Zambézia ...

According to a PhD student at Makerere, the elongation of the labia majora and minora was chiefly to raise barricades for rapists In other societies, the larger elongated lips are known to make sex ...

Ironically, as Kenyans cut and mutilate their girls’ genital parts, in Uganda, they strive to elongate the labia majora and minora, or the ‘lips’ in layman’s language, by pulling and elongating part ...