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If it's a more effective preventative when administered to both sexes, then why not immunize everyone? Not to be "gender-biased" but don't men usually have more sex partners? Or is everyone equally slutty nowadays?
I do think it's sad a child that young would be in danger of an STD.

The reason that they immunize young girls (9-15) isn't because they are in danger of getting an STD. The immunization is the most effective before a girl becomes sexually active, so they have chosen this age range as the best age for a girl to become immunized.

Very good point. The fact is many more males than females get the disease. That is the reason it is not a reportable disease, fear that homosexuals will be offended and discriminated against. Why they refuse to acknowledge that fact I don't know. Nothing can be accomplished until it is. As a medical professional it is amazing the lengths that we are required to go to preventing identity of those who have it from being known.

Holy smokes!!!!

They don't immunize them for risk that day, month or even year! I haven't read the literature but most vaccinations are good for decades or even life.

They aren't assuming your little girl is going to paint the town red tonight. They are assuming that at some point in her life, she will become sexually active. I hope that it is as adult in a marriage.

Now suppose your daughter is a virgin and her husband to be has been a good man except for one bad choice, would you condemn them to the possibility of losing a young wife and mother to cervical cancer?

My kids were vaccinated for hepatitis B as toddlers, was it because I assumed that they were going to get tattoos and shoot heroin before they start kindergarten? No, but it will provide a measure of protection for the rest of their lives.

As for why they only vaccinate girls, it's because they have a cervix and are at risk for cervical cancer. There is a public health argument for vaccinating all kids but guys in bow ties and thick glasses sit down and calculate cost vs. benefit. Even if the vaccine is very expensive, a few lives saved from cancder makes it worth it. It may be too expensive for prevention of unsightly blemishes thus the decision not to vaccinate boys.

I've never heard of anything so prudish in my life...You would deny your daughter a vaccination that could one day save her life because you don't believe that one time during her life she might make a mistake??? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME???