All told, the average graduate of a medical school is entering an industry in which female genital cosmetic surgery is on an unprecedented upswing—but with no concept whatsoever of how normal anatomy might vary from woman to woman, no basis for being able to reassure a patient on the fence about having surgery that there’s nothing medically wrong with her. What they have instead, based on some combination of personal experience and pornography consumption, is a highly personalized and probably misinformed notion of what labia are “supposed to” look like.
