Sorry, jelly - I was not saying that seriously. Hence the > <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Relax, OK?

And about that teen driving, BTDT. I validate your concerns. I have a 17 year old son. Very nerve wracking when he has my car.

WAT

Ladies (and gents), I was gang raped when I was a 12-year-old virgin, and I was in a place that should have been safe, and I did nothing that warranted the attack, wasn't acting slutty, wasn't wearing sexy clothes, wasn't talking to strangers, wasn't flirting. None of that.

I still have a boatload of problems with my innards. Lots of scar tissue, a cyst on one ovary, had to have a fallopian tube removed, two miscarriages. I have never been diagnosed with an STD. When I became sexually active by choice, several years later, I also sought gyno/medical attention, and have been very careful. I did experience condom breakage with one of my consensual partners, just prior to meeting and mating for life with my husband.

After finding out about hubby's affair I insisted on the full battery of STD tests including the ones they normally skip (like genital herpes). It's hard to detect so it's routinely just skipped, the assumption is that if you have something else, then they'll check for these others, because it's more expensive to do the full battery. ReGawdDarnDiculous.

From someone who survived stage 3 cervical cancer as a result of my ex-husband's promiscuity, I think it should be avail to legal age females (18 ->).

I agree with KYellow, and beyond that I'd say minors should require parental consent.

JMVHO
Jo

MTA: This is all contingent that the FDA and medical community has done research diligence in ensuring the vaccine itself does not introduce any long term illnesses

The same rationale works for giving middle school kids hep B vaccine ~~~ before ~~~ they have sex or get tattoos.

This actually works very well for hepatitis B .... so far.

Pep

Great point, Pep. I think they start the Hep B vaccine for babies now.

I feel very strongly that the government does not have the right to dictate sexual policy. Yes, abstinence is a wonderful, lofty goal. That is a lesson best taught at home, not through threats from the government that, "If you have sex, girls, you'll get cancer and die." What the he11? As parents we can use bribes and threats to try to get our kids to behave, BUT NOT THE GOVERNMENT.

This vaccine has been deemed safe, and it needs to become available to all females, regardless of our age. HPV may be a sexually transmitted disease, but as many have pointed out, we don't always CHOOSE our partners.

We have a 12 year old girl in our town who contracted HPV from a neighborhood 56 year old man (considered highly religeous in the community). He was "counseling" the family, while he was molesting the little girl. Those of you who think we should with hold the vaccine in some attempt to use fear to keep dowm promiscuity should be ashamed of yourselves.

Anyone choosing NOT to vaccinate their daughter for this reason is practicing child abuse, IMVHO. I'd bet the parents of that 12 year old wouldn't have gotten her vaccinated for the same sick reason.

This administration has handed out false information in sexual information pamphlets for years, and if they deny the FDA approval, it's just more of the same.

Teach your kids not to have sex. Don't give them a death sentence if they don't or can't take your advice.

Hi IAO,

I re-read through this entire thread hon, and I must have missed where anyone suggested the above. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

It's there. It's between the lines of anyone who has a problem with the vaccine for ANY reason other than strictly medical.