Abstract
Female sexuality is a highly policed domain within many societies with women and girls being violated daily in relation to performing their gendered and sexual identities. This article explores the politics of inner labia elongation, and the socially constructed notions of genital beauty through the lens of gendered violence. It highlights the silences around sexual pleasure and desire for Basotho women through discussing the importance of labial elongation in the construction of sexual identities. It presents the challenges that women face as they negotiate the spaces between the social constructions of proper womanhood and female sexualities within a hetero-patriarchal society.
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