Exploring sexual customs: Girls and the politics of elongating the inner labia

Agenda

Volumn 23, Issue 79, 2009, Pages 30-37

  Khau, Mathabo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

female sexual pleasure; girlhood; labial elongation; Lesotho

Indexed keywords

EID: 85143345088     PISSN: 10130950     EISSN: 2158978X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2009.9676221     Document Type: Article

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