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[quote=Anonymous]OB Gyn here, absolutely would vaccinate boys and girls (and did so with my own).

First, Pap smears, while an important component of screening and routine health care for women, are very far from sensitive and specific for cervical cancer, very subjective in interpretation and detect a problem already present, requiring actual surgical treatment. Actually preventing the viral infection that leads to inflammation and then cancer in the first place seems a lot more desirable.

This vaccine has been in testing for over a decade, thus far has a great safety record, and efficacy in preventing infection.  Vaccine side effects that are real and reproducible ( as opposed to fabricated in the autism/vaccine papers) tend to be quite short-term and should be easily picked up in over ten years of testing.

Finally, do you really think that having had or not had the HPV vaccine is going to change the behavior of your son?   There are more direct and easily understandable risks to unprotected intercourse (pregnancy, HIV for instance, or even the classic STDs like gonorrhea), so a kid having been vaccinated or not for HPV really really doesn't seem like it would make someone more reckless[/quote]

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