The HPV rate is the real driver of the large number posted in this article. That HPV really is only sexually transmitted is debatable. One study claims that 14.8% of girls who have never had sexual contact have HPV:
http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/content/full/106/7/423
If that’s the case then the numbers reported in the present story are pretty meaningless - but make great ammunition for the agendas of certain people.
I worked at a local prosector’s office years ago in the Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit. A report came in that a three year old had genital warts. It was reported to the office by her pediatrician. An investigation was launched and it was determined the child was not molested but had contracted the genital warts from a bath towel both her parents used (they had genital warts). Moral to the story don’t share bath towels if one or more of you has some kind of herpes or genital warts.