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If you’re new to the world of BDSM and erotic pain/pleasure, the idea of a clit clamp might terrify you. But don't be scared—these little sex toys, often referred to as clitoral jewelry, can seriously enhance your sex life and even help you have stronger orgasms.
Clit clamps are pretty similar to nipple clamps . "They're used to enhance sexual pleasure by pinching or squeezing the clit," explains Janet Brito, PhD, a clinical psychologist and sexologist in Honolulu. "The clit clamp applies pressure to the clit, thus restricting blood flow, and then releasing it. This restriction and release of blood flow is what causes the pleasure."
Clit clamps can be a great addition to foreplay, or can give you pleasure while you pleasure your partner. They can also be worn on a date or to a party as a sexy secret between you and your partner. Just know that, if you're using one for long periods of time, you need to loosen the clamp so it doesn't restrict blood flow too much.
To begin using a clit clamp, Brito recommends starting slow. "Try the clamp on your earlobe, finger tip, or other sensitive body part before you squeeze your clit with it," she suggests. Once you feel comfortable with the power of the clamp, "begin with manual stimulation, or use a vibrator to discover how your clitoris likes to be touched." If you're with a partner, Brito says to begin with oral sex. "This will ensure the blood flow is going, before you put the clamp on," she explains.
From there, you can begin using the clamp on your labia and the base of your clitoris or clitoral hood. Brito also recommends using lube with the clamp, especially if you're new to BDSM.
When you do release the clamp, there will be a rush of increased sensation, so make sure to take the clamp off before you’re ready to climax. As you get used to the clamp, try timing it with your orgasm for an incredible added rush.
Now that you know how to use a clit clamp, all you need to do is find the right one for you. Think about the material, size, and weight of your clamp, and keep in mind that many nipple clamps can also be used as clit clamps—as long as they're gentle. There are a lot of choices out there, but these nine clit clamps are the best for both newbies and seasoned pros.
Shaped like the letter Y, this dual nipple and clit clamp toy can be worn under clothes or during sexy time. Completely adjustable, it’s made of safe metals (aluminum and steel)—just one reason why it comes highly recommended by Brito.
Playing into the idea of clitoral jewelry, this beaded clamp is not only simple and easy to use, but it's also a serious looker. The beads add a bit of extra weight and swing, both of which enhance an already pleasurable experience.
For all you fancy peeps, this little baby's for you. Add this dual clit/nipple clamp—complete with a gorgeous gold body chain—to your favorite evening outfit, or wear it alone for a sexy night in.
These are technically nipple clamps, but you can totally use them as a clit clamp instead, or even at the same time. Wherever you choose to put 'em, they'll definitely enhance your foreplay—and the rest of your night.
These small battery-powered cuties are a perfect mix of clamp and vibrator. Clip them on, and prepare to have a completely hands-free orgasm. Better yet, add the second to your labia or nipple for more pleasure.
A beautiful piece of jewelry, this adjustable clamp has soft rubber edges and a long body to accomodate all shapes and sizes. Pro tip: Stick this clamp in the freezer for five minutes before play for some intense chilly pleasure.
FYI: Rose gold isn’t just for earrings and necklaces.
If you’re in a long distance relationship and video chat sex is your jam, try using this vibrating clamp that's powered by a USB. Call up your boo, plug in, and have a sultry time.
Tell your partner who’s boss with this Queen clit clamp. Adorable and totally affordable, this charmed beauty is great for all you royal babes.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Act of lengthening the labia minora
— Patience Akumu, The Observer (Uganda), 2010 [14]

^ Jump up to: a b c d " Rwandan Women View The Elongation Of Their Labia As Positive ", retrieved on 18 June 2008

^ Jump up to: a b [1] , "Sexual health—a new focus for WHO", p. 6, retrieved on 19 June 2008

^ "Labia stretching: Why some British girls are told to do it" . BBC News . BBC. 7 April 2017 . Retrieved 24 April 2018 .

^ "Cultural Practices in Namibia Hinder HIV Prevention, Group Says" . Kaiser Health News . 11 June 2009 . Retrieved 16 May 2018 .

^ Pérez, Guillermo Martínez; Tomás Aznar, Concepción; Bagnol, Brigitte (14 July 2014). "Labia Minora Elongation and its Implications on the Health of Women: A Systematic Review". International Journal of Sexual Health . 26 (3): 155–171. doi : 10.1080/19317611.2013.851139 . S2CID 72132133 .

^ [2] , "Intimate Operations: OB-GYN Organization Issues Warning", ABC News, 31 August 2007, retrieved on 22 June 2008

^ Jump up to: a b Kaoma Mwenda, Kenneth (December 2006). "Labia Elongation under African Customary Law: A Violation of Women's Rights?". The International Journal of Human Rights . 10 (4): 341–357. doi : 10.1080/13642980600976369 . S2CID 219643763 .

^ Pérez, Guillermo Martínez; Tomás Aznar, Concepción; Bagnol, Brigitte (14 July 2014). "Labia Minora Elongation and its Implications on the Health of Women: A Systematic Review". International Journal of Sexual Health . 26 (3): 155–171. doi : 10.1080/19317611.2013.851139 . S2CID 72132133 .

^ "Labia stretching: Why some British girls are told to do it" . BBC News . 7 April 2017 . Retrieved 24 April 2018 .

^ Akumu, Patience (16 June 2010). "Labia elongation: Invaluable culture or dangerous practice?" . The Observer – Uganda . Retrieved 24 April 2018 .

^ Cook, James (1846). The Voyages of Captain James Cook: With an Appendix, Giving an Account of the Present Condition of the South Sea Islands, &c . William Smith. p. 327 . Retrieved 11 May 2018 .

^ Jump up to: a b Paige, Jeffery M.; Paige, Karen Ericksen (1981). The politics of reproductive ritual . Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 81 . ISBN 9780520047822 .

^ Barrett, Barbara Ann; Groes-Green, Christian (2011). Studying Intimate Matters: Engaging Methodological Challenges in Studies on Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa . Christian Groes-Green. ISBN 9789970251308 .

^ Jump up to: a b Akumu, Patience. "Labia elongation: Invaluable culture or dangerous practice?" . The Observer – Uganda . Retrieved 24 April 2018 .

^ Jump up to: a b Katongo, Chanda (30 July 2013). "Zambian Girls Stretch Labia to Avoid Infidelity" . Global Press Journal . Retrieved 24 April 2018 .

^ Robert Suggs, Marquesan Sexual Behavior [New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966], pp. 39–42, as quoted in Paige, above.

^ Paige, Jeffery M.; Paige, Karen Ericksen (1981). The politics of reproductive ritual . Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 81 . ISBN 9780520047822 . Young women among the Marquesans (Robert Suggs, Marquesan Sexual Behavior [New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966], pp. 39-42), Nyakyusa (Monica Wilson, Rituals of Kinship Among the Nyakyusa [London: Oxford University Press, 1957], p. 87), and Nama (Schapera, Khoisan Peoples , p. 243) are encouraged throughout childhood to practise elongating the outer [sic] labia. Young women among the Maori (Elsdon Best, The Maori [Wellington, New Zealand: Polynesian Society, 1941], II, 557), Mongo (Gustave-E. Hulstaert, "Le mariage des Nkundó," Institut Royal Colonial Beige, Mémoires 8 [1938]: 60), and Trobrianders (Bronislaw Malinowski, The Sexual Life of Savages [New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1929] p. 305) design special tattoo markings along the labia.

^ "XX – Personal Adornment" . THE MAORI – VOLUME II . p. 557 . Retrieved 24 April 2018 .

^ Harries, Patrick; Maxwell, David (2012). The Spiritual in the Secular: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa . Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 9781467435857 .

^ Hulstaert, Gustave E. (translated by Vizedom, Monika B.) (1938) Marriage among the Nkundu. Bruxelles: Librairie Falk fils, Georges Van Campenhout, Successeur. [3]
Quoted on the overview of the Mongo people by the Database for Indigenous Cultural Evolution at the University of Missouri .

^ Malinowski, Bronislaw (1929). The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia; an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea . New York, Eugenics Pub. Co. p. 305 . Retrieved 24 April 2018 .

Labia stretching , also referred to as labia elongation or labia pulling , is the act of lengthening the labia minora (the inner lips of the female genitals) through manual manipulation (pulling) or physical equipment (such as weights). [1] It is a familial cultural practice in parts of Eastern and Southern Africa , [2] and a body modification practice elsewhere. It is performed for sexual enhancement for the benefit of both partners, aesthetics, symmetry and gratification. [1]

The labia and the whole vulva differ in size, shape, and colour from one woman to another. In that labia stretching is attempting to change this body part to fit an ideal, and that it is often done by older women to girls, it has been compared to female genital mutilation (FGM) and child abuse . [3]

Elongated labia are perceived to facilitate orgasm and female ejaculation , and are considered to enhance sexual pleasure for both partners. [1] Women who have unequally long labia may increase the size of the shorter to achieve symmetry. They also swell inwards, partially blocking the entrance to the vagina .

The practice of labia stretching itself does not cause sexually transmitted infections (including HIV ). Such infections generally occur later in life through sexual activity. Some writers have asserted that there is a causal link between labia stretching and rates of infection. [4]

... that pain at the beginning of the practice, nuisances related to the use of caustic herbs, and stigmatization in failing to comply with the practice are the principal health risks associated with LME [labia minora elongation]. At the same time, there is evidence that labial elongation may benefit the sexual health and well-being of women.
The opposite of labia stretching is labia reduction or labiaplasty , which is performed as a surgical procedure for women whose genitals cause them discomfort or pain, [6] or for aesthetic reasons.

Although the World Health Organization previously included labial stretching within the context of "mutilation" (see Genital modification and mutilation ), the negative context of that was not supported by the research of Marian Koster MSc and Dr. Lisa Price of Wageningen University , Netherlands. This led the WHO to schedule amending their treatment of it, perhaps as "modification" instead, in February 2008. [2] [7]

The practice of labial stretching does not violate women's rights, in that it does not involve physical violence, unless the woman is misled as to the benefits of the practice. However, it may be contrary to African customary law and rights of women if it is in conflict with public policy. [7]

Girls usually start to stretch their labia from ages 8 to 14, before menarche . [8] Children in the African diaspora practise this too, so it occurs within immigrant communities in, for example, Britain, where a BBC report labelled it a hidden form of child abuse . [9] The girls are subject to familial and social pressure to conform. [10]

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. [ citation needed ] 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 treating patients with labia ranging from half an inch to three or four inches. [11]

In Eastern Africa Monica Wilson recorded the custom through her fieldwork with the Nyakyusa people in the 1930s, and in Southern Africa Isaac Schapera worked with the Nama people , the largest group amongst the Khoikhoi , early in the 20th century, [12] publishing The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa in 1930, in which he documents labia stretching.

In Rwandan culture , female family members teach girls at puberty how to pull their labia to lengthen them ( gukuna , "pull", imishino "labia" in Kinyarwanda language ), using local medicinal flora to ease the process. Women continue the practice into adulthood and through marriage. [1] The most important aspect of gukuna imishino , which may begin about the age of 10, is to assist the couple to perform the sexual practice of kunyaza , in which the sexual satisfaction of the woman comes before that of the man. [13]

Labia elongation is something that every girl who has grown up on Ugandan terrain has at least heard about. Others have experienced it, complete with its joys and pains, while for many it is a mystery they can only imagine. Some men have heard of it too, and others have gone beyond the doors of these protected waters. Some people cherish it with their entire being, while others could not care at all about a matter so trivial. Another section of the community downrightly abhors elongated labia.
Some human rights activists in the country, including feminist scholar Sylvia Tamale , support labia stretching. [14]

According to a report in the Global Press Journal , labia stretching is common in Zambia, but such a social taboo that it is rarely discussed. It is defended by traditional marriage counsellors and challenged by feminist activists. [15]

Wala Nalungwe, a feminist and activist, says that powerful, cultural figures – such as marriage counselors and family matriarchs – unfairly pressure young women to stretch their labia.[...]even older women do not understand why they pull their labia, she says. They manufacture false reasons to support the practice, scaring girls into pulling.[...] The practice of labia stretching denies women and girls autonomy over their bodies and sexuality, she says. [...] "It is unfair that girls and young women are taught to pull their labia minora for the sexual gratification of their male partners, not for their own sexual fulfillment." [15]
Labia modification is documented as having existed in cultures outside Africa, particularly in the South Pacific. [12] Robert Carl Suggs wrote about it in 1966 regarding the culture of the Marquesas Islands . [16]

Scholars link labial elongation with genital tattooing. [17] Elsdon Best wrote about the Maori (published in 1924, but apparently referring to a historical custom he had not witnessed himself): "Women were occasionally tattooed on the private parts, and this was a custom among Fijian women. It was alluded to as a tara whakairo ." [18] Belgian missionary Gustaaf Hulstaert [19] wrote about genital tattooing in 1938 in Le mariage des Nkundó , about the Mongo people of the Congo: "Both women and men wear tattoos, but it is more common among women. For women, it is considered more sexual and often located near the sex organs." [20] Bronisław Malinowski wrote about the Trobriand Islands in The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia : [21]
The body, as distinguished from the face, is very seldom painted, and no tattoo markings are ever visible. I am told that girls at the time of their first menstruation are tattooed round the vagina. This tattooing is called ki'uki'u , and is done, according to my informants, for aesthetic purposes.

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Our procedures are designed to address the cosmetic concerns involving the four major areas that comprise a woman’s external genitals:
1. Labia Minora : The inner lips can be made smaller, irregular shape or contour improved, and differences in size of the two lips corrected. Our techniques preserve natural pigmentation of the labia edges, with virtually no visible scarring.
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2. Clitoral Hood : Excess skin and extra folds can be removed to contour the Clitoral Hood achieving a more normal appearance, with virtually no visible scars.
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3. Labia Majora : The outer lips can be made less puffy by liposuction or surgical excision. Drooping or sagging is corrected by skin removal, or plumped by fat injection.
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4. Mons Pubis : The Mons Pubis often sags with age or weight gain. It can be elevated and reduced in height and width. The resulting scars are usually hidden within the pubic hair. A bulging, prominent mons can be made flatter using liposuction.
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