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) 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