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) of southern Africa was well embedded in colonial scholarly thought by the end of the eighteenth century. The main meaning of "Hottentot" as an ethnic term in the later 19th and the 20th centuries has therefore been to denote the Khoikhoi people specifically. At the same time, however, "Hottentot" also continued to be used through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in a wider sense, to include all of the people now usually referred to with the modern term "Khoisan" (not only the Khoikhoi, but also the San people, hunter-gatherer populations from the interior of Southern Africa who had not