I responded personally to something you stated in your post on this thread regarding only homosexuals getting the type of HPV this vaccine protects against, and your belief that only people who act “like sluts” or marries someone who “acted like a slut” could contract this disease.
I apologize for calling you a bad name, and basically “yelling” at you. I have asked the mods to remove my post.
Please take some time to educate yourself further on what HPV actually is (it’s not JUST an STD). Also, please take into consideration that there are many people who have contracted this disease who are NOT “sluts”, and to claim otherwise is rude and hurtful to others.
I say this as a personal survivor of cervical cancer caused by HPV when I was 19 years old. It’s frankly none of your business HOW I was exposed, but I’ll tell you anyway - I was date raped. Keep that in mind please the next time you post in regards to this subject.
PS - I’m NOT an advocate for this vaccination. It’s too early to risk it on my children, IMO. Just so you know that the vaccination has nothing to do with my above comments.
Here is a link to get you started in regards to educating yourself on HPV, you may find some of the information from the Mayo Clinic extremely surprising. I myself found some of it extremely enlightening and this is a disease I had myself...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hpv-infection/DS00906/DSECTION=causes
Liberty Rocks, thank you for bringing my attention to the topic and will amend my comments to include those who become infected with the HPV virus through no choice of their own. I’m sorry you had to undergo such suffering. I hope that you have fully recovered from it all and suffer no long term problems at all.
I think as a culture we need to re-think (or rather, many individuals in our culture, culture is not a giant Entity) dating and courtship. Used to be, girls and boys didn’t put themselves into situations where date rape could occur. Social standards were such that a couple practically had to be engaged before being alone together is circumstances where such could occur. Chaperones and group association were common, as well as matchmakers or other such traditions, as well as a higher standard of morality, kept pre-marital sex much lower than it is today.
The above is no attack on you, just an observation about the degradation of culture and how it puts young men and women in hot water without their really desiring it at all, the flow of life almost demands their participation with attendant dangers at every step.
I speak from experience, having jumped into the flow (of sewage) with both feet, many years ago, and suffered the consequences.
If the general morality of the populace was much higher - the way it was a few generations ago - we would not be in the sorry fix we are in today (as a culture) not only in regard to the spread of this disease, but many others; including the out of wedlock births and all the other things we both know about.