The paper published in this week’s BMJ medical journal. Vaginoplasty, a medical procedure involves the creation or reshaping of the vagina. Vaginoplasty is sometimes performed to revise vaginal anomalies and congenital conditions such as absence of a vagina at birth, as well as to repair the area following disease or injury.

Vaginoplasty may be undertaken for functional reasons, aesthetic reasons, or a combination of the two. Women’s concerns about their appearance, fuelled by commercial pressure for surgical fixes, now include the genitalia. A share of this consumer demand is being absorbed by National Health Service specialists. This article was prompted by the increased numbers of women asking for labial reduction and the concerns of clinicians about the rising number of referrals for cosmetic genital surgery.

Cosmetic genital surgery rising in UK