My wife contacted HPV when she was 22 years old, just after college, and had to have the cancerous cells removed from the tip of her cervix by a freezing technique. And, yes, we didn’t meet until she was 26 so she didn’t get it from me!! (Sorry, folks, but most guys aren’t marrying virgins these days). If the guy who gave it to her (probably a college boyfriend) had this shot, she wouldn’t have gotten it (I’m sure neither of them knew he carried HPV).
As our doctor said to us, “Two words: penile amputation.”