Labia stretching abuse The girls are subject to familial and social pressure to conform. The early recordings of the results of the practice are perhaps among the Khoisan peoples of southern Africa, where the inner labia were seen to be several centimeters longer than the outer labia. When Captain James Cook reached Cape Town in 1771, towards the end of his first voyage, he acknowledged being "very desirous to determine the great question among natural historians, whether the women of this country have or have not that fleshy flap or apron which has been called the "Sinus pudoris""; eventually a physician described
Hottentot (racial term) been known to the seventeenth-century settlers, once often referred to as "Bosjesmans" in Dutch and "Bushmen" in English). The term "Hottentot" remained in use as a technical ethnic term in anthropological and historiographical literature into the late 1980s, and the 1996 edition of the "Dictionary of South African English" merely says that 'the word "Hottentot" is seen by some as offensive and Khoikhoi is sometimes substituted as a name for the people, particularly in scholarly contexts'. Yet by the 1980s, because of the racist connotations discussed below, it was increasingly been seen as too derogatory and offensive to be used