[FONT=&quot]All girls please vote in the above poll to help try squash some misconceptions about what is a normal Vagina......

I recently watched the British documentary, "The Perfect Vagina" which addressed the issue of an increasing number of Women seeking Labiaplasty, surgery to reduce the size of their Labia minora (inner lips). Many porn magazines use photo manipulation software to remove the protruding labia minora from the photo of their models creating a misconception of what a normal Vagina looks like. In Australia it is my understanding that publishing rules for magazines like Playboy and Penthouse prevent the displaying of any 'bits' protruding from the Labia Majora (outer lips) as it is seen to be "too graphic" for open shelf magazines. Subsequently, Many women (and Men) who see these magazines believe that it is abnormal to have protruding labia, because all of the women in the magazine are 'neat and tidy' down there. The simple truth is, many of the women appearing in these magazines do actually have protruding labia .

Every woman is different, Vulva's come in a huge variety of different colours, shapes and sizes. It is perfectly normal for length of the labia minora to be anywhere from 0cm up to 15cm or more. The Clitoris too can vary in size from being only a few millimetres in length and width (external measurement) while others have been recorded as being a few inches in length (larger than some Penis's).

I have created this anonymous poll in the hope that it will provide some females with confidence in discovering that what they thought to be abnormal is in fact perfectly normal and hopefully prevent a few women from seeking to remove their perfect, and perfectly normal labia. So please all females participate to assist my cause.

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ps. size estimations are fine, you don't have to get a ruler out!

On the outside, measure from where it joins your body to the tip of the longest point. Make sure the skin is spread but not stretched.

glad you appreciate it

Approximations are fine.... not sure what the scientific way of measuring is.... But I assume it would be a measurement along the outer edge of the labia from where it joins the body, out to the longest point, with the ruler at 90 degrees. As the area is quite stretchy I think the labia should be straightened for the measurement (if required) but not stretched.

The problem with anonymous voting polls is that the act of voting doesn't bump the thread, so even though many people have voted in the last day, the thread is slipping. In other words, this message is a shameless bump.

I still don't think what her sister had said was bad enough to go through the trauma of the surgery!! The other sad part was that when they showed her vagina before the operation it looked perfectly normal.

Anyone else?