And so, I suppose, does every living thing big enough for you to see. Your dog, your dog’s fleas, that blade of grass . . . even house-dust mites you can’t see . . . teeming with microbes, all of them . . .
There! Topped it twice! :D:cool:
It all comes back to the fundamental slut/stud divide. Even dads in this thread are joking about it…or maybe they’re serious. If their daughter has sex with the football team they’ve failed as a parent. If their son is caught having an orgy with the cheerleader squad they’ll pat them on the back and give 'em an “'attaboy.”
Still, any dad should operate on the assumption that his daughter will spend some time in the company of boys her own age, and that those boys will be much like himself at that age. With all that implies. Meaning, not necessarily completely honest with the opposite sex in all regards at all times (unlike adult men, you know). Meaning, if he had done the cheerleading squad, he wouldn’t necessarily tell her, would he? More like, “Oh, no, it’s my first time too, baby . . . Rubber? Hey, why bother?”
FWIW the current generation of teens has the lowest teen aged pregnancy rate since rates have been recorded. They are indeed choosing abstinence more often for longer and when they have sex are more likely to have sex in less stupid ways (using condoms much more often.) Giving information about how to have sex with less risk has been correlated not with becoming tramps but with less risk taking. Unless they were absent that day.
Actually, let me rephrase some things, because I made some stupid mistakes (which I bloody well should have known better).
Warts are usually caused by HPV. It’s damn common. You can get it sexually, but it’s transmitted pretty casually. 80% of women have it because a huge number of people do, and often don’t realize it. This is one reason why I favor people having the vaccine.
However, it’s also not usually dangerous in any way, and it doesn’t really protect anyone else, which is why I don’t favor it as a requirement.
Indeed. Absence makes the ardour grow stronger. 
:smack: Twice in a week!
Ma’am, if you please.
It’s not the germs, it’s the oozing warts. Eeeewzing.
Yes, I’ll have one too!
But does absinthe make the part grow longer?
So why is the vaccine only for girls? Obviously men don’t get cervical cancer, but there are other reasons to get it.
Yes it seems so against the given philosophy of why vaccines need to be distributed so widely that it is almost forced.
It isn’t just for girls. It’s approved for use by boys/men to protect against genital warts.
I talked to my ex about getting it for my son (then 10) when he got older, but it wasn’t covered by insurance for him. It did cover our daughter, who got her last dose when she was 14, I believe.
If I had the money to spare, or the insurance covered it, I would have my son vaccinated in a heartbeat. The more folks that are vaccinnated in that crucial age range, the bigger dent we can put in HPV.
It’s not just access to abortion?
I thought that it jumped a little a few years ago but overall fell over the decade. Argg. Statistics. :o
When I inquired about getting it, I was told that my insurance doesn’t cover it for men. Also, the controversial Texas mandate that sparked this discussion only applied to girls. Many posts in this thread are clearly talking about girls only.
So while it’s available for men, it sure isn’t to the same extent.
Access to abortion might reduce the teen birth rate, but it won’t affect the teen pregnancy rate, which is what DSeid is talking about.
(Unless you buy the argument that it will incease the teen pregnancy rate, by reducing the adverse impact of pregnancy, and so diminishing the incentive to avoid pregnancy.)
I’ll go with birthrate though because thelinkis easiest to find. Peaked in the 50’s (of course once pregnant the teens then often got married before the kid was born), began to drop in the 60’s with that descent flattening out in the 70’s after abortion was legalized. Brief mild rise late 80’s then dropped again. (abortion rates) peaked soon after it was legalized and have been decreasing ever since. According to the MMWR the latest number (2009) is “the lowest rate ever recorded” Why? Well with all this information fewer teens are having sex.
And those who do have sex are using contraception, especially condoms, much more often.
More information has resulted in delay of sexual activity onset, more contraception use when kids do have sex, fewer births to teens, and less abortion.
Commie pinko athiests. With their time machine.