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Female Genital Modification: How women elongate pleasure in bed

 

  • According to a PhD student at Makerere, the elongation of the labia majora and minora was chiefly to raise barricades for rapists
  • In other societies, the larger elongated lips are known to make sex more pleasurable

As Kenyans cut and mutilate their girls’ genital parts, in Uganda, they strive to elongate the labia majora and minora, or the ‘lips’ in layman’s language, by pulling and elongating part of the vagina.

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