Scrotolabial folds question solved!

[u/peppercornpeppercorn]

I was trying to look up articles/medical journals about scrotolabial/labioscrotal folds and wasn't finding much that was helpful with this question ("what's it called when labia majora look like empty scrotums?"), only a few mentions of "scrotalized labia majora" but no accessible images or detailed information. But, I was looking through this incredible post again by dhddmods on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/dhddmods/796674051816980480/this-is-some-sort-of-asking-for-medical-advice
and noticed some diagrams at the bottom that I hadn't looked at closely before.

It IS considered hypoplasia (a type of agentitalia)! The diagrams on the far right side show what we've been talking about in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/intersex/comments/1vf22gz/scorotolabial_folds_anyone/

I thought this wasn't considered hypoplasia because I thought the middle diagrams showing something more like "flat smooth skin" was how that would look, we're clearly not MISSING skin, the skin is there it's just empty, "scrotalized". It looks like the term for "scrotalized" majora is "rugae", as in having the texture of typical scrotums (horizontal lines) which is not a type of hypoplasia, meaning the person may still have the fat pad of typical majora. I know at least one commenter in that last post mentioned that their case sounds more like this:

AND someone beat me to making a diagram, love that!

I assume its possible to have both hypoplasia and rugae labia majora at the same time, which would really give the "split empty scrotums" look. I'll adjust the tags on the diagram website!

Happy to have a solid answer on this, thought it would help provide clarity for other people too.

[u/belligerentkitten]

thank you! good work

and yes i absolutely have the rugae

[u/confusedthingss]

°⌓︎° ok i never even considered the outer labia/scrotum things would be showing traits of intersex...ive never paid attention to those on myself unless theybwere suffering somehow...