<P> On the opposed surfaces of the labia minora are numerous sebaceous glands not associated with hair follicles . They are lined by stratified squamous epithelium on those surfaces . </P> <P> Like the whole area of the vulval vestibule, the mucus secreted by those glands protects the labia from dryness and mechanical irritation . </P> <P> Being thinner than the outer labia, the inner labia can be also more narrow than the former, or wider than labia majora, thus protruding in the pudendal cleft and making the term minora (Latin for smaller) essentially inapplicable in these cases . </P> <P> The reception of wider and / or longer labia varies considerably between different people, with some men and women stressing the beauty of bigger labia while other women who have such ones complain of some discomfort either from mechanical irritation by their tighter clothes or from their own or their peers' negative attitude to the image of less compact female genitalia than is stereotypical for them . </P>

What is the cleft between the labia minora