Vaccination against high risk HPV strains—controversial with some here—can remove much of their risk, although can't protect against the many other risks of that behavior. A little discussed, but important detail regarding HPV vaccination is that it only protects if you receive the vaccine before you are first exposed to the high risk HPV. Vaccination after getting HPV won't cure it. If you choose to engage in the behavior in spite of its risks; it would be prudent to get vaccinated beforehand. With studies showing, IIRC, 40% of college age women already having been exposed to HPV, one could certainly argue that some behaviors need improvement. But one could also argue that as well as we can try to educate our own children on proper behavior, our ability to control their behavior, to chose their future partner(s), and to control those partner's behaviors prior to linking with our kids, is limited. So as parents it may make sense to take extra steps to reduce our kid's risk of horrific complications, in parallel with doing as much as we can to inculcate good behavior. And if we choose to do that, the timing issue implies we'll get the greatest benefit from vaccination by doing it before the kids are old enough to think about having sex, straight, gay or whatever.
There are over 100 hpv strains....at least 14 of ‘em associated with cancer. The vaccines only cover the most prevalent strains...but if everyone keeps effing everyone else...vaccinated or not, all them strains gonna be ubiquitous.
(Don't the liberals themselves say 1 in 5 women will be raped during college? That's as bad as a war-torn third world country, or in the vicinity of the US Congress...) /rim shot>