[AmericaUnited]

Do we really want the “Hey screw your brains out because you’ve gotten the shot” vaccine?

[Dianna]

Do we really want the “Hey screw your brains out because you’ve gotten the shot” vaccine?

Did you tell your kids they could now become intravenous drug users because they got the Hepatitis vaccine?

I am more concerned about whether the vaccine is safe and if it has been tested enough to know that it is, in fact, safe.

[muawiyah]

What a strange response. This particular vaccine encourages promiscuous sexual behavior no more than do the condoms and vaginal suppositories on display in grocery stores nationwide.

However, the article is false. No one anywhere is preventing the use of this vaccine. There has been, however, resistance to forcing families to get 11 and 12 year olds vaccinated, particularly since there's a strong indication that all the effect will be lost from the body by the age of 17 or 18 right when unprotected sexual promiscuity might well begin in susceptible young females.

[Mamzelle]

If it's not given to virgins, there's not much point in giving it at all. The STD that causes cervical cancer is highly prevalent in all adults, and is benign to the male carriers. Men won't have to have the vaccine, obviously, because they do not get cervical cancer. But they're going to cause it in a lot of women.

But--they're your daughters. I find the resistance hysterical. It is not tantamount to passing out condoms--it's a preparation for the likelihood that a young woman, virgin bride or no, is going to encounter an infected male.

[Little Ray]

Actually, do we really want every girl given the shot before we have a really good study on side effects?

[ktscarlett66]

You don’t have to be promiscuous to get HPV. Hoping that this isn’t TMI, but I’ve had a total of 3 partners my entire life, have been married for 22 years this month, and I have it. My now-H and I both came down with the symptoms shortly before we were engaged, since it can lie dormant for a long time in the body, we have no way of knowing which one of us gave it to the other. And he didn’t have a high number of partners either, for a guy who was in the service and overseas before we met. It only takes one encounter from one person to get it. You don’t have to be a ‘tramp’ to get any STD, just one unlucky enounter.