"Sexually active"? You meant and THEY aren't being accurate in that use of a term. Truth is, what is meant is "sexually promiscuous."
You and yours are sexually promiscuous?
1 in 4 women are currently infected with a form of HPV. At some point in their lives up to 75% of women will be infected.
A vast majority of people become sexually active at some point in their lives. The only way to be certain that you cannot be exposed to a sexually transmitted disease is to only have sex with people who your are certain have never had sex, or who have been tested for HPV.
You don’t have to be “sexually promiscuous” to get HPV. It is so prevalent that you have a reasonable likelyhood of catching it even the first time you have sex.
And since HPV can also be spread through oral sex, you don’t even have to have intercourse; and it is an unfortunate but true fact that an increasing number of girls are engaging in oral sex as a “non-sex” act.
Of course, given the sexual promiscuity in our culture, it hardly argues against the vaccine to claim that only sexually promiscuous people are at risk. I would note that Sarah Palin’s daughter had sex with a guy who likely had sex with other girls, and she could have been exposed to HPV, and gotten cervical cancer, and died. Yet I doubt anybody would have expected that Bristol Palin would be “sexually promiscuous”.
Most of us don’t expect our sons and daughters to misbehave. We teach them what is right, and we hope they listen. But in my rather conservative church, we not only have had several teen pregnancies, but one of our elders confessed to a long-term affair. His wife could have ended up with an HPV — and I guess some here would have blamed her for it for some strange reason I can’t fathom.
I do not believe we should withhold a vaccine from someone because they are sexually promiscuous. I do think people should evaluate THEIR risk of disease vs the risk from the vaccine. That is why I never get flu shots, and why to this point neither of my children have received the HPV vaccine.
But if my daughter went crazy and slept with some guy, and got cancer and died from HPV, I’d probably second-guess my decision not to get her vaccinated. But here we will argue over whether someone died from the vaccine, and we won’t blink an eye at hundreds of sexually active women who die from cancer that would have been prevented had they gotten the vaccine.
I know of one of my daughter's friends from junior high school who died of the disease as a young adult.
The Dad was banging all his daughters, and CPS had banned him from contact with his family. The Mom and Daughters moved from here to escape CPS, and have the Dad back in the home. I don't blame the young daughters. I do blame the Dad and Mom for (1)Dad's criminal perversion, and (2) Mom abetting his perversion so they would have Dad around as the family breadwinner.
Sadly, Laura is still DEAD from cervical cancer, and had the vaccine been around, who knows if the parents would have gotten it for their children before the Dad started sexually abusing them. I don't know.