It is very unfortunate but the fact is that a woman who is chaste and monagomous in her marriage can still get a venereal disease. I happened to my sick, elderly mother.
My 66 year old mother had blood tranfusions during her lung cancer surgery. She ended up with herpes.
And that isn’t even taking into account the potential problem of a wandering, cheating husband. No one can predict the future.
Women need to look out for themselves. Just because you get a vaccine to protect you from a disease ususally spread by sexual contact, it doesn’t mean you are going to be promiscuous. What it means is a woman must be in control of her own life and not trust her safety to others.
Parents who love their daughters should have them vaccinated for this awful disease.
Certainly I agree that teenagers should not be mating like minks - a scenario that unfortunately is shown to them every day on television shows like “The Best Years.” The good news is that a fair number of teenagers not only reject the “free love” philosophy of my era, but they extend the concept of chaste behavior to young men, too. (I teach high school, so I’m exposed to the best and the worst of the next generation. It’s interesting that the guy we would have called “the stud” is now derided as the “manslut.”)
Having said all that, getting a vaccine against a common STD is not the same as telling girls to go out and act like amateur prostitutes. In fact, getting the shot might convey the opposite message - there are diseases out there which can kill you, and even though we have a shot for one of those diseases, there are plenty more out there for which there is no cure. Once you tell girls that their partner can give them a disease that has practically no symptoms and causes cancer, maybe they’ll be looking at all their partners more cautiously.
I would also hate to be the parent of a woman who gets uterine cancer because they decided the shot would prompt promiscuous behavior.
To paraphrase a famous Tom Lehrer joke about the nuclear proliferation: “These are times that make you feel like a Christian Scientist with apendicitis.”
Moral virtue needs to be taught to kids consistently, with a sound religious basis. I would think this vaccine could be incorporated into that worldview.