According to a study published in the BJOG, an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, women who looked at photos of "modified" considered them more "normal" looking and a better fit as "society's ideal" compared to the unmodified ones.

This can only mean one thing. Women are disliking normal vulvas! The number of labiaplasties in the U.K. have increased five times between 2001 and 2010, and researchers from the University of Queensland Australia's School of Psychology decided to see how the procedure has changed a woman's perspective on regular ones.

The study included 100 women aged between 18 and 30 and divided them into three groups to look at two different sets of images. One group looked at vulvas that had been surgically modified, while the other looked at unmodified vulvas and the third looked at no vulvas.



In the second viewing, all of the groups looked at a variety of unenhanced and enhanced vulvas and were asked to rate them. According to the BJOG:
The study found that women who had initially viewed the modified vulvas identified the modified images in the second screening as more normal than the non-modified vulvas. This was significantly different from the control group, who initially viewed no images, and were 18% less likely to rate the modified vulvas as normal.

Furthermore, when asked to rate the images according to society's ideal of genitalia, women in all three groups rated the modified images as more like society's ideal than the non-modified vulva images. Again, women who initially viewed the modified images were 13% more likely to rate the modified vulvas as more society's ideal than the control group.
Claire Moran, the lead researchers of the paper said that these findings further heighten concerns that unrealistic concepts of what is considered normal to genital dissatisfaction among women, encouraging women to seek unnecessary surgery.

What do you think? Is your labia so normal that it doesn't look normal anymore to you thanks to images of "beautiful vaginas"?