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joreth

HPV Update

Feb 03, 2010 13:42

It's been a while since I last made an STD update, because there's not much new going on. Same ol' same ol' with one side arguing to get vaccinated, the other side arguing it's dangerous, treatments awaiting FDA approval, blah blah blah.

This also isn't exactly new, but it seems we need reinforcements as to why the vaccine is GOOD FOR YOU. People ( Read more... )

sti, rants

Comments 4

ashbet February 8 2010, 03:12:31 UTC

I really wish they could tell me one way or the other whether it's safe for my 17-year-old daughter to get the HPV vaccination -- we're both immunocompromised due to a genetic condition, and they just don't know enough about it to be able to say whether or not it's worth the risk. Her doctor was saying to put it off until we could get her (formerly severe) iron-deficiency anemia treated, but now I think we've got her blood levels to an acceptable state (need to get her checked again), and I need to bring it up again ( ... )

joreth February 8 2010, 03:29:38 UTC

Hi there, and welcome ( ... )

ashbet February 8 2010, 03:43:59 UTC

I really hope that they start encouraging boys to get the vaccine for just that reason . . . plus, if they prove the link between penile cancer/HPV (last I checked, it was a correlation but not 100% proven?), then perhaps they'll really push for male vaccination? Having boys vaccinated as well as girls would really help, particularly since boys tend to be asymptomatic unless they have the wart-causing strain.

Heh, my original Twitter comments to Jeph were:

I wouldn't define Tai as "polyamorous" if she's looking to "settle down" with one person eventually - I'd call her "single."

The point of polyamory isn't "dating a bunch of people 'til something better comes along" (and I know it's a comic, but srsly!)I do understand his perspective (that Tai's relationship needs have changed, and that she hasn't necessarily realized that -- heh, the sick part is that it is mirroring something that happened relatively recently in my own extended poly network, where my partner's partner claimed to be poly but turned out to really want monogamy ( ... )

joreth February 8 2010, 03:53:17 UTC

Exactly, I had no problems with Tai's portrayal for the same reason ... all the others just seemed to be her version of poly, not a statement about what poly was in total, whereas this statement felt much more like a statement about poly, not a personal version of poly. Even with the focus on casual sex, I haven't taken exception to Tai at all until this strip ( ... )