A research charity has launched an animated film hoping it will encourage debate about the surge of women seeking "designer vaginas".
The film called Centrefold, funded by the Wellcome Trust, features three women discussing how labiaplasty - the surgical reduction of the inner labia - has affected them.
Last year more than 2000 labiaplasties were carried out on the NHS, and in the last five years there has been a fivefold increase.
Experts believe the total number is likely to be much higher when considering the unregulated private sector, where the surgery costs upwards of £3,000.
Despite the increase in labiaplasty there are no universal NHS guidelines on the size and shape of normal female genitalia. Full story...
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The film called Centrefold, funded by the Wellcome Trust, features three women discussing how labiaplasty - the surgical reduction of the inner labia - has affected them.
Last year more than 2000 labiaplasties were carried out on the NHS, and in the last five years there has been a fivefold increase.
Experts believe the total number is likely to be much higher when considering the unregulated private sector, where the surgery costs upwards of £3,000.
Despite the increase in labiaplasty there are no universal NHS guidelines on the size and shape of normal female genitalia. Full story...
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