

The colour of a woman’s clitoris depends on her skin tone. It’s often about the size of a pea, but it can be bigger or smaller. The outer part is a small bump between your labia, where they meet at the top.

The clitoris is the sexual organ most involved with sexual pleasure – in fact, that’s all it’s there for! The tip of the clitoris is on the outside of your body, but a large part of it is actually hidden away inside you. If you don’t have labia, read more in the section on female genital cutting. Unfortunately, they can’t keep all the bacteria at bay, which is why it’s so important to have safe sex and use condoms! The inner lips can also increase pleasurable feelings during masturbation and sex. What are labia for?īoth the outer and inner labia help to stop bacteria, viruses, or anything else that might be harmful from getting into the vagina. Some ethnic groups such as Khoisan and San in Southern Africa have even longer inner labia – up to 10 centimetres (4 inches) beyond the outer labia. Most women’s inner labia grow to between 0 and 6 centimetres (2.3 inches) beyond the outer labia.

Labia come in many different shapes and sizes! This means young girls and women are often unaware of just how many natural variations there are in the way labia look. The models may even have had surgery to make their labia smaller. Unfortunately, if you look in medical books or find pictures on the internet you’re likely to find white models, and people with ‘fashionably’ small labia. There is no normal size for your inner labia. The inner labia are between the outer labia, and the skin is usually a little darker. Some women’s labia are large, some are small. This means the smaller and larger labia, though, in reality, the inner labia are often larger than the outer labia.Įvery woman’s labia look different. The inner and outer labia are also called the labia minora and labia majora.
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The labia are full of glands that produce fluid so your vagina gets moist when you’re sexually aroused. There are two outer labia and two inner labia. The labia – which means lips – protect the entrance to the vagina. If you do choose to wash your labia with soap, use a gentle one without strong perfumes. It can also be a cause of itching and irritation or pain during intercourse. Soap can upset the natural balance of bacteria and actually make you more likely to get yeast (fungal) infections. It’s not a good idea to use soap, especially on your inner labia and inside your vagina. So your vulva may look different from these ones: © Love Matters Hygiene When you have sex, it’ll be easier for you to let your partner know what you want. You also know what feels good, what you like, and what you don’t like. It’s useful to get to know your own body well. If this is the case, and if you remember going through a special ceremony to become a woman when you were younger, you may have been circumcised or cut.Ĭheck out the section on female genital cutting to learn more about how this could affect the way your vulva looks. You may notice that your labia minora (inner lips), labia majora (outer lips), or clitoris is not visible.
