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News Flash: THE GARDASIL VACCINE IS ALL ABOUT SEX. It is designed to prevent an STD which causes cancer. And the way you get this STD is through....wait for it...sex.

It is true that it would be pretty much impossible for anyone to contract HPV if they never have any sexual intercourse during the course of their entire lives. But unless you are going to lock your daughters up in an ivory tower with a chastity belt for life, it’s pretty unrealistic to think she will never have sex.

A woman could be totally chaste and virginal until her marriage but if her husband was not so before their marriage, he could carry the virus.

Let’s say for example that a 25 year old, morally upstanding, church going woman who is still a virgin meets a really great, morally upstanding straight arrow 30 year old guy at her church; they fall in love and decide to get married. But what if this guy, when he was in his late teens, “sowed some wild oats” as it were and had pre-marital sex a couple of times with one or two girlfriends (and how many guys have?) until he saw that wasn’t the sort of lifestyle he wanted to follow. Although he is a great guy now and the type of fine upstanding young man that any mother or father would be happy to have marry their daughter, he could be carrying the HPV virus and unknowingly pass it on to his wife and put her at risk for cervical cancer.

I really don’t understand the hysteria about this vaccine. Like all vaccines, there are some risks, but nothing I’ve read about it from the CDC and the FDA documents about the “adverse reactions” are anything to be alarmed about. Polio, TB and measles vaccines have similar “adverse reactions” – soreness at the injection site, slight fever, and even fainting and lightheadedness (which is more of an emotional reaction than a physical one) but the overall benefits outweigh the risks IMHO.

News Flash: PREMARITAL SEX HAS BEEN AROUND AS LONG AS MEN AND WOMEN HAVE BEEN AROUND.

It’s a virus, not a moral judgment. Any young woman that thinks that the Gardisil vaccine will prevent all STD’s and give her card blanche to have indiscriminate sex is either stupid or had irresponsible parents who never bothered to teach her about the facts of life.

“A woman could be totally chaste and virginal until her marriage but if her husband was not so before their marriage, he could carry the virus”

That’s what bothers me...males can carry this virus. They aren’t being vaccinated, as far as I know.

I don’t understand the hysteria associated with this vaccine either. I was really hesitant to have my two teens (almost 18, and 16) get the vaccine. I was also hesitant to allow my two youngest to get the Chicken Pox vaccine. I waited until this year for them, almost 13 and almost 11, to get the Chicken Pox vaccine. My two older kids got chicken pox so figured the two youngest would too. They didn’t so finally caved and got them the vaccine this year.

I was hesitant about the Gardisil vaccine as I’ve been hesitant about any vaccine or medicine that hasn’t been around for decades. No hesitation with the polio, MMR, etc. vaccines. And this year, both teens got the Mennigitis (sp) vaccine (one had a reaction, passed out, which was common in the doctor’s office from what I was told). The other teen had no problem with it.

“Any young woman that thinks that the Gardisil vaccine will prevent all STD’s and give her card blanche to have indiscriminate sex is either stupid or had irresponsible parents who never bothered to teach her about the facts of life.”

Well said. Thank you for saying it.