I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask about this, but I've been kind of concerned that my vulva is reeeeally dark compared to my normal skin color... is this very unusual? Does anyone else have this problem? Am I not doing something properly? Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks! (Also I'm Asian, I don't know if that affects anything.)
Dark Colored Vulva?
12/06/2011
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It's perfectly normal for the vulva to be more darkly colored than the surrounding skin, especially during arousal.
I am very fair skinned, and my vulva is a bright pink/red when I am aroused, and a pale pink (still darker than elsewhere) when I am not.
I am very fair skinned, and my vulva is a bright pink/red when I am aroused, and a pale pink (still darker than elsewhere) when I am not.
12/06/2011
I would guess yours are normal, though if you ever have a check-up down there, you could certainly ask about it.
Mine are pretty dark and I have very pale skin.
I don't think it's a problem, it's just different from the "ideal" shown in most porn - which came about because labia were considered obscene and they wanted to make them more discreet than they are generally in nature.
Here's a picture of normal, fairly dark labia : LINK.
I think it's a shame that some women feel this is ugly and get surgery because they feel their normal, healthy labia minora are deformed or bad. I support people's right to modify their own bodies, but I feel that porn and the media does not send a healthy image of what a women's genitals may look like. :/
Mine are pretty dark and I have very pale skin.
I don't think it's a problem, it's just different from the "ideal" shown in most porn - which came about because labia were considered obscene and they wanted to make them more discreet than they are generally in nature.
Here's a picture of normal, fairly dark labia : LINK.
I think it's a shame that some women feel this is ugly and get surgery because they feel their normal, healthy labia minora are deformed or bad. I support people's right to modify their own bodies, but I feel that porn and the media does not send a healthy image of what a women's genitals may look like. :/
12/06/2011
I'd also like to echo that it's perfectly normal and natural for labia to be a wide array of different colors, but that you can ask your doctor at your next checkup if you think there's something wrong.
12/06/2011
Thats normal.
12/07/2011
Another chiming of "it's normal!" from me. I'm Caucasian and mine's rather dark.
12/07/2011
Me as well! caucasian but olive-skinned
12/07/2011
Perfectly normal. I'm liquid-paper pale and mine are (is?) twice as dark as my other skin.
12/07/2011
Not only normal, particularly for Asian women but quite attractive as well.
12/07/2011
Don't worry, it's normal for Asians (both men and women) to have darker skin colors on our private areas, you're not the only one.
12/07/2011
Perfectly normal
12/07/2011
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