How Does My Labia Look?

The Detroit MetroTimes ran a long story about the hottest thing in cosmetic surgery. Designer vaginas.

“During Kim’s consultation, Dr. Berenholz asks her a number of frank questions about her ability to orgasm, before and after childbirth. “I’m just really loose down there,” she says with a shrug. Having finished with his questions, Berenholz begins conducting his exam, speaking gently and telling Kim exactly what he’s doing as he probes her vagina with a speculum and conducts a rectal exam. A flash of surprise shows up on his face.

Berenholz finishes the exam, and tells Kim that if he had to classify her on a scale from normal to slightly relaxed to very relaxed, he would classify her as normal.

Kim looks shocked. “You think so?” she asks, unconvinced. “I know so,” Berenholz assures her.

He then gently suggests that the problem may lie with her husband. He refers Kim to urodynamic testing, to treat her issue of stress incontinence, but says she has no need for LVR, or Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation.

“You really don’t think so?” she asks again, looking perplexed and rather disappointed. After a moment, she wonders, “Well, maybe he’s got a problem.”

Despite the fact that she’s just learned she’s normal, and won’t have to pay nearly $7,000 to have her vagina surgically altered, Kim looks almost crestfallen.

“It happens a lot,” Berenholz’s assistant assures her. “Because we’re women, we’ll see a doctor when we think something is wrong, but men are very prideful …”

“There are many women who’ve had more than three or four children who have a very fine sex life,” Wilhelm says. “It doesn’t mean because your sex life is no longer enjoyable it’s because you’ve had three kids and your vagina is stretching. That’s a lot easier to fix than looking to yourself or your relationships.”