Labia stretching, also known as labia elongation or labia pulling, is a practice that has deep roots in certain African tribes. Learn about the history and cultural significance of this practice.

The labia are a part of the female genitals and are externally visible. Women have two pairs of labia called the labia majora and labia minora.

The need to feel and seem beautiful and appealing has always made us want to do something different, something that makes us not just look beautiful and make us feel good about ourselves but also make us stand out in the crowd.

Labia stretching, called Gukuna Imishino originated in ancient Africa and has been practiced since ages to help the women and men add a lot of pleasure in their lives.

Even though we may believe that focusing on our private parts is a topic of today as we are more advanced than ever, the idea of making ourselves seem sexually more appealing has been in our history since the beginning.

When exploration of far off lands came into being, many explorers visited Africa and came back with very different stories of how the people there lived and how different their cultures and daily practices were.

The Hottentot Venus was a woman from an African tribe who displayed a very different anatomy and ended up being noticed by a surgeon from one of the ships.

Labia stretching is approached with the thought of elongating the labia minora permanently and needs regular attention till the time the process is going on.

Labia stretching is not just practiced in few regions of Africa, it is quite common in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa.