All I'm gonna say about this is that I think people in this country have decided that they don't want to talk about...
All I'm gonna say about this is that I think people in this country have decided that they don't want to talk about sex, and since you can obviously only get sex diseases if you have sex, and nobody ever does that, you don't need protection from sex diseases. Also, children only have sex if you talk about it. If they don't know about it, it won't happen. Also also, if you only have sex with one person starting after you marry them you are guaranteed never ever to get any sex diseases. I'm pretty sure they think only girls get cancer from this, as well, and that if they get cancer, well, god, etc. Even if only girls got cancer from it, here's a newsflash, it's still spread by boys. Just sayin' I think this is why this particular vaccine is not discussed as often, nor received as often.
HPV vaccination rates up only slightly, CDC says
The CBS Evening News (7/30, story 8, 1:25, Pelley, 5.08M) reported that “a report out today found that just 60 percent of teenaged girls and only 42 percent of boys have received” the HPV vaccine. CBS’ Dr. Jon Lapook said that “the CDC said the number one reason is that not enough pediatricians are recommending it.”
TIME (7/31, Sifferlin) reports that the data indicate “that despite public health efforts, the number of teen boys and girls receiving the...vaccine only increased slightly” last year. In a statement, Dr. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general and director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said, “We are missing crucial opportunities to protect the next generation from cancers caused by HPV.”
HPV vaccination rates up only slightly, CDC says
The CBS Evening News (7/30, story 8, 1:25, Pelley, 5.08M) reported that “a report out today found that just 60 percent of teenaged girls and only 42 percent of boys have received” the HPV vaccine. CBS’ Dr. Jon Lapook said that “the CDC said the number one reason is that not enough pediatricians are recommending it.”
TIME (7/31, Sifferlin) reports that the data indicate “that despite public health efforts, the number of teen boys and girls receiving the...vaccine only increased slightly” last year. In a statement, Dr. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general and director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said, “We are missing crucial opportunities to protect the next generation from cancers caused by HPV.”
I am 95% certain the cancer that killed my grandfather was HPV-spawned.
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ReplyDeleteWell, I mean, yeah, it sucks, but it really ought to be discussed more, because if men thought they would die horribly of reproductive cancers THEMSELVES, it might well end up a different dialogue altogether.
ReplyDeleteIt's just, HPV cancers are so damned embarrassing.
Well, isn't that because of similarly socially dictated norms, wherein SEXXX evilevilevil hellhellhell icky bad SATAN etc. comes into it? It's stupid, but it's pretty dominant. I mean, I personally disagree with why they continue to refuse to test these vaccines on older men and women. Yes, in theory most people have been exposed at some point, but that doesn't stop them from giving other vaccines post-exposure. And how do they know it wouldn't still have an effect on reducing the number of cancers over time? They don't. I think they are coming up with rationalized scientific explanations for not doing it because it was such a political omg you're going to give our children sex! misery fest just to get the vaccines into any kind of trials, at all.
ReplyDeleteYes, we're a pretty sex-negative culture.
ReplyDeleteWe'd much rather have a nice shrubbery.
ReplyDeleteOn, no, we all LIKE sex, we just like to pretend we don't. It's extra specially kinky that way.
ReplyDeleteIt uselessly complicates EVERYTHING. Don't people understand that when Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, ... we can wear whatever we want on our John Thomas's?
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