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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Afr J Reprod Health. 2007;11(3):221–235.
Participant: Some say that when you don’t have them [elongated labia], marriage becomes very difficult. … They are told to work hard [at pulling the labia] so that they grow [long]. …
Moderator: They say that the marriage becomes difficult if we don’t have them?
Participant: If you do not have sewere.
Moderator: Are the sewere the labia?
Participant: Eeh! [yes] (All laugh)
Participant: And men like them.
Moderator: Mm, mm! So how do men use them?
Participant: They are like doors (all laugh).
Moderator: Doors? (laughs)
Participant: Those are the sewere (all laugh)
Participant: Men like playing with them and say, “The labia are so long.”
Participants: (laughter)
(females, rural, out-of-school, 18–19)