Labiaplasty Is On The Rise Among Teenagers

vocativThe number of women 18 and under who are getting labiaplasty nearly doubled between 2014 and 2015 according to The American Society Of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. “Variety in the shape, size, appearance and symmetry of labia can have particularly distressing psychological effects on young women,” said Julie Strickland, the chair of ACOG’s Adolescent Health Care Committee and lead author of the paper, in a press release. “It’s one more body part that women are insecure about and it’s our job, as ob-gyns, to reassure our young patients.”

The self esteem of Founders has never been higher.

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