More than half a million people have had or considered having the procedure due to lack of education and diverse representation, survey shows
In a YouGov survey from April, one in eight respondents said they had put off a GP visit for sexual and reproductive concerns due to being embarrassed about the look of their labia.In a YouGov survey from April, one in eight respondents said they had put off a GP visit for sexual and reproductive concerns due to being embarrassed about the look of their labia.
“We probably receive at least one comment per month from someone about how much the resource means to them,” she said. “We just got a beautiful one the other day from someone in Japan who said they had never received education about their body and it was transformative to have access to the information.”
Dr Magdalena Simonis, a women’s health expert and adviser with the University of Melbourne’s department of general practice, said she first started seeing patients concerned by the appearance of their labia around 2012, many of whom were just teenagers and who requested referrals to plastic surgeons.
“I felt like my expertise and concerns were dismissed,” Simonis said. The experience drove her to lead research into doctor and patient understanding about the vulva, and into motivations for wanting surgery.
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