Elongated labia a practice that formerly fell into the category of Type IV female genital mutilation. In 2008, The World Health Organisation reclassified the practice as a body modification due to a perceived lack of harm and a reported much more positive perception of women's sexuality by those who practice it. Elongated labia Elongated labia (also known as Sinus pudoris or macronympha and albeit nonmedically, as khoikhoi apron or hottentot apron), are a feature of certain Khoikhoi people, whose female members develop relatively elongated labia minora, hanging up to four inches outside their vulva when they are standing in an upright position.
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