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To: hellinahandcart
If they don't have the virus (the woman can find out by being screened herself), why should they "lose" anything, and what would the woman be risking?

Ever see how beautiful a woman with a resected head and neck or mouth is? A very different thing than a resected cervix..But why let that stop you?

213 posted on 12/12/2002 2:13:14 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
Ever see how beautiful a woman with a resected head and neck or mouth is? A very different thing than a resected cervix..But why let that stop you?

I have seen one, an old woman who lost her entire lower jaw decades ago. Any good dentist today can catch a mouth cancer early, and women tend to see their dentists far more often than they see their gynecologists.

But you simply refuse to answer my question, don't you?

If neither the man nor the woman has HPV, they're not going to get mouth cancer from HPV. So what do they risk, except your disapproval?

And I'm sure there are untouched virgins out there who come down with mouth cancer for other reasons than an act they've never performed. HPV is not the only cause, and the risk of getting it seems extremely small for everyone except--oh, I don't know. Prostitutes and drugged up teenagers willing to put out for their entire school?

You remind me of several girlfriends of mine who gave up tampons because they were convinced they would get toxic shock syndrome unless they reverted to the feminine hygiene of the last century. No amount of telling them that men and boys and postmenopausal women also got toxic shock made any difference. They had it in their minds that tampons cause toxic shock and that was that as far as they were concerned.

Personally, I refuse to let baseless fears or infinitesimal risks dictate the course of my life. There's just nothing in that article that would frighten me.

255 posted on 12/12/2002 4:10:10 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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