2 years in row HPV, now what

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Anonymous wrote:quick plug to remember to vaccinate the pre teen girls with gardasil, so they won't have to deal with all these colposcopies.

I was vaccinated when Gardasil first came out and had a colposcopy and am now having a LEEP, so don't count on Gardasil being your saving grace.

I think that is the biggest danger with the vaccine: it gives girls a false sense of security. Seriously, it's far more important to teach girls to insist on condom usage.

Don't agree. Didn't get vaccinated, nothing gave me false sense of security, still didn't use enough condoms.Vaccinate your girls! Young people hardly ever listen.Even if she does, he doesn't.

Then she hasn't been taught to say "no" when a boy refuses to use a condom.

I think this is the bigger issue. Girls and women need to be taught to use condoms. It's possible that you didn't get vaccinated and STILL weren't taught to use condoms. I think a lot of moms of teenage girls are more inclined to encourage them to use the pill than to drill into them the necessity of using condoms and the necessity of making it an absolute nonnegotiable with boys.

And it carries over into adulthood, because a lot of women don't press men to use condoms.