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) original role of ethnic designator, the term "Hottentot" was included into a variety of derived terms, such as the Hottentot Corps, the first Coloured unit to be formed in the South African army, originally called the "Corps Bastaard Hottentoten" (Dutch: "Corps of Bastard Hottentots"), organised in 1781 by the Dutch colonial administration of the time. The word is also used in the common names of a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the "Africanis" dogs sometimes called 'Hottentot hunting dogs'; the fish "Pachymetopon blochii", frequently simply called "hottentots"; "Carpobrotus edulis", commonly known as a 'hottentot-fig'; and "Trachyandra", commonly