Why do labia minora become enlarged?

Early in the morning, a healthy young lady with fair skin and a well-proportioned figure walked into the Plastic Surgery Department. But her hesitant look told me that she was really confused; she confessed that she had the problem of squeezing her thighs since she was a child, and in an emergency she would immediately squeeze her thighs tightly to relieve the pressure. She liked to fall asleep with her head resting on a pillow, so that she could have a sense of belonging. She recently found a boyfriend, and soon after they got together, her troubles began to arise: her labia majora was enlarged, dark in color, and the skin was loose, which made her feel embarrassed.

According to the introduction on the Internet, the enlarged and dark vulva of a woman is called "wood ear", and wood ear is related to rich sexual experience. She is very confident of her current happiness and hopes to solve this embarrassing "little problem" through private plastic surgery.

This is a common problem in private plastic surgery. First, let us understand the vulva. The labia minora is located on the inside of the labia majora. It is a pair of small and thin skin folds. It lacks fat but contains a lot of collagen fibers. It is usually closed. During sexual excitement, the labia minora swells and expands due to hematoma and moves slightly outward.

So is dark private area color really related to sexual experience? In fact, this is not the case; the amount of pigmentation in a woman's vulva (including nipples) is mainly related to the level of estrogen. For example, the color of this area will become darker during pregnancy, and will gradually fade after the birth of the child. The color will completely fade after menopause. Therefore, long-term masturbation habits such as squeezing the legs together may cause the estrogen level to be relatively high and cause the private parts to be dark brown. However, it cannot be said that "black hair" is definitely caused by rich sexual experience. Sometimes it is even closely related to the woman's own skin color.

The main reasons for our common "fairy bud" labia minora are as follows. You can understand them and don't accuse your partner:

First, hereditary hypertrophy of the labia minora. This type of gynecological problem often has a family genetic history, which cannot be prevented.

Second, due to long-term local irritation or continuous friction, such as female gynecological inflammation, vulvitis, due to long-term irritation of inflammatory secretions, the labia minora skin and mucosa proliferate and the labia hypertrophy, local skin and mucosa are not smooth, and melanin is increased. Some people who ride bicycles or motorcycles for a long time may also cause labia hypertrophy and the appearance of everted "fur ears" due to long-term friction and compression of the parts.

Third, excessive masturbation and frequent sexual intercourse can also cause hypertrophy of the labia minora. This is also a judgment made on the cause of "fairy buds" on the Internet at this stage, and it has caused many girls to suffer injustice.

Many people's labia minora begin to proliferate and expand, and they continue to be exposed as they age. Such defects seriously affect daily life and even the couple's sexual life, which is very annoying. In fact, such a situation can be repaired through plastic surgery.

The vulva is like a protective barrier between the vagina and genitals, which can effectively prevent the entry of bacteria and unclean secretions and is part of women's natural self-defense mechanism.