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 buttonquail Hottentot buttonquail The Hottentot buttonquail ("Turnix hottentottus") is a bird in the family Turnicidae formerly considered conspecific with the black-rumped buttonquail ("Turnix nanus"). The species is endemic to South Africa and is found along the south coast from Cape town to Algoa Bay in Eastern Cape province. There are no subspecies. A 1994 survey resulted in an estimate of c.310-420 birds in of montane fynbos habitat in Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. The lack of records suggest that this may be an overestimate, and extrapolation of a much lower density estimate from a 1990 study would result in a