Elongated labia a practice that formerly fell into the category of Type IV female genital mutilation. In 2008, The World Health Organisation reclassified the practice as a body modification due to a perceived lack of harm and a reported much more positive perception of women's sexuality by those who practice it. Elongated labia Elongated labia (also known as Sinus pudoris or macronympha and albeit nonmedically, as khoikhoi apron or hottentot apron), are a feature of certain Khoikhoi people, whose female members develop relatively elongated labia minora, hanging up to four inches outside their vulva when they are standing in an upright position.
Hottentot (racial term) is possible to speak from the seventeenth century onwards of a European, colonial image of "the Hottentot" which bore little relation to any realities of the Khoisan in Africa, and which fed into the usage of "hottentot" as a generalised term of abuse. Correspondingly, the word is "sometimes used as ugly slang for a black person". Use of the derived term "hotnot" was explicitly proscribed in South Africa by 2008. Accordingly, much recent scholarship on the history of colonial attitudes to the Khoisan, or on the European trope of 'the Hottentot', puts the term "Hottentot" in scare quotes. In its