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) known as 'hottentot cabbage'. It has also given rise to the scientific name for one genus of scorpion, "Hottentotta", and may be the origin of the epithet "tottum" in the botanical name "Leucospermum tottum". Hottentot (racial term) Hottentot (British and South African English ) is a term historically used of the Khoikhoi, the non-Bantu indigenous nomadic pastoralists of South Africa. The term has also been used to refer to the non-Bantu indigenous population as a whole, now collectively known as the Khoisan. Use of the term is now deprecated and considered offensive, the preferred name for the non-Bantu indigenous people