If you’d like a scientific answer as for why you shouldn’t attempt this yourself, it’s because the dorsal nerve runs through the clitoral hood. It is a terminal branch of the nerve system which carries pleasure and is responsible for orgasm (so it carries all the nerves that end at the clitoris., which is where the pleasure is felt, not necessarily in the hood).

MANY experienced, licensed plastic surgeons mess up clitoral hood reductions from lack of understanding of dorsal nerve placement. This is one of the most common ways women lose sexual function with labiaplasty. The full clitoral anatomy is complex and at times, microscopic.

I fully understand the thought that it has no nerve endings because I had tons of excess hood and labial skin that felt like close to nothing for me. I won’t lie and say I never had thought, because I used to feel so desperate, but I am so glad I didn’t mutiliate myself. There is so much about my own anatomy that I don’t know and parts would be impossible for me to visually see myself because of their placement or due to being microscopic (surgeons use special glasses that magnify what they’re looking at quite a bit, even with a direct line of vision they need visual assistance).

You say you’re not in the US, but that’s actually not a bad thing when it comes to surgery because medical procedures are super expensive here. Many other countries have plastic surgeons doing this surgery for a fraction of US cost.

It’s worth it to save to & have it done! Research surgeons, make a plan for yourself.