>>Approx. 80% of American women will be infected with one or another type of genital HPV in their lifetimes<<
How?
Sexual contact, of course. Now, if you wish to label 80% of American women as "whores" go ahead, but this adds nothing to the debate. As a pathologist I diagnose invasive cervical cancer on a monthly basis and significant pre-cancerous changes literally every day. It's my job to prevent cervical and other cancers, not judge the moral worth of my patients.
Biggest spreading is not washing your hands perfectly EVERYTIME before wiping.
Not sex.
The high HPV rate isn’t because women are that promiscuous but because the men that they are with often are. That’s part of how they identified the relationship between STDs and cervical cancer years before the publicized it (it got mention in science magazines in the 1980s and 1990s). Nuns rarely got cervical cancer. Women in Latin American countries had high rates of cervical cancer despite being less promiscuous than the women in many other countries. The problem was that their husbands were promiscuous and were bringing it home. That’s why any plan to vaccinate only girls with an HPV vaccing is bogus. It’s men that spread it around.
A persons number of sexual contacts includes direct and indirect.
If a young woman saves herself for marriage and marries a man with a history of one sexual contact, she is at risk. Even if both parties claim to be virgins, one could be a liar.
HPV is a sneaky virus, often the lesions are not easily visible or are in a non visible location.
Once infected, it is very dificult to eradicate and if a young woman is infected, it causes a significant risk of cervical cancer down the line.
From a medical standpoint, cervical cancer is not related to her socioeconomic cercumstance, it is related to her husband’s.
People are concerned that the vaccine will protect indescrete women from cancer. The way I look at it, it protects women from indescrete men.