Sexual Healing by Dr. Margarita Kressin

There is a trend in California with women getting labioplasties to make their vaginas “prettier”. The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) does not condone this practice. These surgeries are cash-pay typically, like any other cosmetic surgery. The women bring in pictures from Playboy, for example, and have the surgeon copy the vagina in the picture.

There are only two real reasons labioplasties should be performed, in my mind: women who have to self-catheterize, and when it starts to interfere with sexual penetration. Sometimes the lips do get caught if it is quite copious when the catheter is inserted, or with the insertion of the penis, the labia get caught resulting in prohibitive or painful sexual intercourse.

The vagina should be wrinkly and bumpy with folds and nooks and crannies. No two are exactly alike. And remember, you need to look to know your own wrinkles and bumps and folds and nooks and crannies.