05-07-2012, 03:06 PM
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Causer of Unrest
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Arizona
Posts: 4,005
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Originally Posted by Oldfart
HPV is a moderatable disease agent, but to immunise is seen by some as giving a green light to "immoral" behaviour.
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There, OF--I fixed that for ya. 
I suspect anyone thoughtful enough to be cognizant of their HPV and immunization status is probably thoughtful enough to make decisions about their sexuality based on more than just a single immunization. I mean, seriously, who says, "Hey, I've got the Gardasil vaccine...free-for-all"? And anyone not that thoughtful was going to do what they pleased either way. Which is what most people do, and have done, since the dawn of time.
Perhaps raising children, girls especially, to value themselves, their bodies, to give them accurate information and safe options, and providing them with a world different from the hypersexualized one they find themselves growing up in now (where we're all clutching our pearls about young people's sexuality coming to the fore) might do more to reduce early sex among the youngsters than making dubious leaps of "logic" to offer cancer as the appropriate punishment meted out for being a sexual being. To me, that's what it really comes down to--the same people who don't want you to have sex (or at least don't want you to have it and enjoy it) seem to want others to "take responsibility" for their "immorality" by being punished with the consequences of disease and/or pregnancy. Kind of sick if you ask me. |